Academic Bill of Rights Information

Students For Academic Freedon (This is the organization pushing the Academic Bill of Rights.)
- Academic Bill of Rights
AAUP
Pennsylvania Government
- Pennsylvania General Assembly HR177
  "A resolution establishing a select committee to examine the academic atmosphere and the degree to which faculty have the opportunity to instruct and students have the opportunity to learn in an environment conducive to the pursuit of knowledge and truth at State-related and State-owned colleges and universities and community colleges in this Commonwealth."
- Representative Russell H. Fairchild
Other Articles and Resources
- The New PC by Russel Jacoby, The Nation, April 4, 2005
- A Student Bill of Fights by Kevin Mattson, The Nation, April 4, 2005
- Commercial pursuits a greater threat than 'left-wing' profs, by Rudy Fenwick and John Zipp, Dayton Daily News (February 11, 2005)
- Keep professors' freedoms intact," Buchtelite Reporter (February 10, 2005)
- What's Not to Like About the Academic Bill of Rights, by Graham Larkin of Stanford University, vice-president for private colleges and universities of the California AAUP Conference, September 2004. A dialogue between the author of the Academic Bill of Rights, David Horowitz, and Graham Larkin ensued. More Than a Stretch": David Horowitz's Imagined Supporters Speak Out and various articles from that exchange can be found on the the California Conference web site.
- Academia under seige, by Barbara Solow, Independent Online (March 31, 2004)
- Mainstream Manipulation, by Cat Warren, Independent Weekly (March 31, 2004)
- Reluctant Foot Soldiers: America's Undergraduates Rebuff Opponents of Academic Freedom, an Academe article by Daniel Denvir, May-June 2003.
- Academic Freedom, The Latest Challenge, an article by Marcus Harvey, West Coast AAUP Representative
Student Rights at Bucknell
- "The [AAUP} 1967 Joint Statement on the Rights and Freedoms of Students has been endorsed by the Board of Trustees and forms the basis of University policy in these matters" (Faculty Handbook, Section II, p. 15).
- "Rules and regulations governing conduct and procedures necessary for their implementation express Bucknell's corporate authority for its members and are consistent with the AAUP Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students, 1967 [see Bucknell's statement Students's Rights]" (Faculty Handbbook, Sec. III.O, p. 36).
- The text of the AUUP statement is contained in the Appendix B of the Faculty Handbook. Relevant quotes include the following:
  "Students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study and to reserve judgment about matters of opinion, but they are responsible for learning the content of any course of study for which they are enrolled."
  "Students should have protection through orderly procedures against prejudiced or capricious academic evaluation. At the same time, they are responsible for maintaining standards of academic performance established for each course in which they are enrolled."
  "Information about student views, beliefs, and political associations which professors acquire in the course of their work as instructors, advisers, and counselors should be considered confidential. Protection against improper disclosure is a serious professional obligation. Judgments of ability and character may be provided under appropriate circumstances, normally with the knowledge and consent of the student."
- "Bucknell faculty members enjoy all of the rights of academic freedom; they are also responsible for preserving those rights for all members of the community, both colleagues and students." (Faculty Handbook, Sec. III.J, p. 30)
- "The willful failure to fulfill obligations for teaching, sexual harassment of students or colleagues, conviction for a serious crime, and physical interference with students or colleagues in the exercise of their civil or academic rights are examples of adequate cause for dismissal." (Faculty Handbook, Sec. III.M, p. 35)
- Bucknell statement on Students' Rights, contained in Miscellaneous Policies appendices to Faculty Handbook (this policy is also repeated in the Facutly Advisers Handbook, p. 59):
  "Faculty should be aware that students also are entitled to academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association, confidentiality and due process. Thus, faculty should encourage students to engage freely with both course content and process, evaluating students on the merits of their arguments and performances, not on their opinions or conduct in matters irrelevant to the academic mission of the university or the course content." "Students should be free to express reasoned opinions that differ from those of faculty or the majority of other students. However students must also understand that they are responsible for learning the content of any course in which they are enrolled, even if they object to that content."
  "Students may not be subjected to arbitrary or capricious evaluations of their work. At the same time, students are responsible for meeting the standards of performance established by faculty."