AAUP Policy Documents and Reports

by American Association of University Professors

• ISBN13: 9780964954816
• ISBN10: 0964954818
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

For eighty-five years the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been engaged in developing standards for sound academic practice and in working for the acceptance of these standards by the community of higher education. The Association has long been viewed as the authoritative voice of the academic profession in this regard. The AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports (widely known as The Redbook because of the color of its cover) presents in convenient format a wide range of policies, formulated at times in cooperation with other organizations. The current edition, the ninth (the first was published in 1968), includes basic statements on academic freedom, tenure, and due process; professional ethics; research and teaching; discrimination; academic governance; collective bargaining; students' rights and freedoms; and accreditation. Among the new documents not found in previous editions are statements on post-tenure review; tenure in the medical school; access to university records; the assignment of course grades and student appeals thereof; institutional responsibility for legal demands on faculty; distance education; intellectual property; and collegiality as a criterion for faculty evaluation. An appendix lists selected judicial decisions and scholarly writings that refer to AAUP standards. The documents in The Redbook offer guidance to all components of the academic community--trustees, administrators, faculty, and students--for the development of institutional policy and for the resolution of concrete issues as they arise.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
ACADEMIC FREEDOM, TENURE, AND DUE PROCESS
Introduction	1	(2)
1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with 1970 Interpretive Comments	3	(8)
1958 Statement on Procedural Standards in Faculty Dismissal Proceedings	11	(4)
Statement on Procedural Standards in the Renewal or Nonrenewal of Faculty Appointments	15	(6)
Recommended Institutional Regulations on Academic Freedom and Tenure	21	(10)
Standards for Notice of Nonreappointment	31	(1)
Committee A Statement on Extramural Utterances	32	(1)
Statement on Professors and Political Activity	33	(2)
Academic Freedom and Artistic Expression	35	(2)
On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes	37	(2)
On Collegiality as a Criterion for Faculty Evaluation	39	(2)
Access to Faculty Personnel Files	41	(6)
On the Imposition of Tenure Quotas	47	(3)
Post-Tenure Review: An AAUP Response	50	(7)
The Status of Part-Time Faculty	57	(11)
Senior Appointments with Reduced Loads	68	(1)
On Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track Appointments	69	(8)
The Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty	77	(11)
Report of the Special Committee on Academic Personnel Ineligible for Tenure	88	(4)
Arbitration in Cases of Dismissal	92	(4)
The ``Limitations'' Clause in the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure: Some Operating Guidelines	96	(4)
On Crediting Prior Service Elsewhere as Part of the Probationary Period	100	(2)
Faculty Tenure and the End of Mandatory Retirement	102	(1)
Tenure in the Medical School	103	(7)
Academic Freedom in the Medical School	110	(3)
The Assignment of Course Grades and Student Appeals	113	(2)
College and University Policies on Substance Abuse and Drug Testing	115	(9)
Access to University Records	124	(6)
Institutional Responsibility for Legal Demands on Faculty	130	(1)
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Introduction	131	(2)
Statement on Professional Ethics	133	(2)
A Statement of the Association's Council: Freedom and Responsibility	135	(2)
Statement on Plagiarism	137	(2)
Statement on Recruitment and Resignation of Faculty Members	139	(2)
The Ethics of Recruitment and Faculty Appointments	141	(3)
On Preventing Conflicts of Interest in Government-Sponsored Research at Universities	144	(3)
Statement on Conflicts of Interest	147	(2)
Statement on Multiple Authorship	149	(2)
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Introduction	151	(2)
Statement on Faculty Workload with Interpretive Comments	153	(5)
The Work of Faculty: Expectations, Priorities, and Rewards	158	(4)
Statement on Teaching Evaluation	162	(4)
Mandated Assessment of Educational Outcomes	166	(11)
DISTANCE EDUCATION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Introduction	177	(2)
Statement on Distance Education	179	(3)
Statement on Copyright	182	(3)
DISCRIMINATION
Introduction	185	(1)
On Discrimination	185	(1)
On Processing Complaints of Discrimination	186	(7)
Affirmative Action in Higher Education: A Report by the Council Committee on Discrimination	193	(8)
Affirmative-Action Plans: Recommended Procedures for Increasing the Number of Minority Persons and Women on College and University Faculties	201	(7)
Sexual Harassment: Suggested Policy and Procedures for Handling Complaints	208	(3)
Consensual Relations Between Faculty and Students	211	(1)
Due Process in Sexual Harassment Complaints	212	(1)
Faculty Appointment and Family Relationship	213	(2)
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY GOVERNMENT
Introduction	215	(2)
Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities	217	(7)
On the Relationship of Faculty Governance to Academic Freedom	224	(4)
Faculty Participation in the Selection, Evaluation, and Retention of Administrators	228	(2)
On Institutional Problems Resulting from Financial Exigency: Some Operating Guidelines	230	(2)
The Role of the Faculty in Budgetary and Salary Matters	232	(4)
Governance Standards in Institutional Mergers and Acquisitions	236	(2)
Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians	238	(2)
Statement on Intercollegiate Athletics	240	(2)
The Role of the Faculty in the Governance of College Athletics: A Report of the Special Committee on Athletics	242	(7)
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Introduction	249	(2)
Statement on Collective Bargaining	251	(2)
Statement on Academic Government for Institutions Engaged in Collective Bargaining	253	(2)
Arbitration of Faculty Grievances	255	(4)
Dismissal Proceedings in a Collective Bargaining Setting Where Arbitration Substitutes for a Faculty Hearing	259	(2)
STUDENT RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students	261	(7)
Statement on Graduate Students	268	(3)
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION
The Role of the Faculty in the Accrediting of Colleges and Universities	271	(2)
COLLATERAL BENEFITS
Introduction	273	(2)
Statement of Principles on Academic Retirement and Insurance Plans	275	(3)
Statement of Principles on Leaves of Absence	278	(3)
Faculty Child Care	281	(2)
CONSTITUTION
Introduction	283	(2)
Constitution of the Association	285	(26)
APPENDICES
I. 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure	291	(11)
II. Association Procedures in Academic Freedom and Tenure Cases	302	(3)
III. Standards for Investigations in the Area of College and University Government	305	(2)
IV. Selected Judicial Decisions and Scholarly Writings Referring to AAUP Standards	307	(4)
Index	311