Academic freedom statement
A page within Faculty Senate
The Organizational Meeting for the Incoming 60th Faculty Senate AY2025-2026 will be Held in Room UNION 2310 (Student Senate Chambers) on:
May 1, 2025
Academic freedom is fundamental to the mission common to higher education of fostering inquiry and increasing the sum of human knowledge and understanding.
Academic freedom is the freedom to discuss and present scholarly opinions and conclusions regarding all relevant matters in the classroom, to explore all avenues of scholarship, research, and creative expression, and to reach conclusions according to one's scholarly discernment. It also includes the right to speak or write - as a private citizen or within the context of one's activities as an employee of the university - without institutional discipline or restraint on matters of public concern as well as on matters related to professional duties, the functioning of the university, and university positions and policies.
Academic responsibility implies the faithful performance of professional duties and obligations, the recognition of the demands of the scholarly enterprise, and the candor to make it clear that when one is speaking on matters of public interest or concern, one is speaking on behalf of oneself, not the institution.
Adopted by the faculty senate and incorporated into faculty senate policies on 1/28/16.
Faculty Senate Meeting Dates
Click on each date below to see the agenda, meeting minutes, and distributed documents.
Fall 2024
| Sept.5 | Sept. 19 | Oct. 3 |
| Oct. 17 |
Oct. 31-Cancelled |
Nov. 14 |
| Nov. 21 | Dec. 5 |
Spring 2025
| Jan. 30 | Feb 13 | Feb 27 |
| March 13 | March 27 | April 10 (*BOR overlap) |
| April 24 | May 8 |
All Faculty Senate meetings are scheduled in Union 2310 and typically start at 3:45 p.m.