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Board Policy Review and Revision

The Academic Senate is and will continue to be involved in reviewing and revising Board Policies that involve academic and professional matters

Committees organized by the Academic Senate are currently working on Academic Freedom and Faculty Hiring Procedures. A policy for Program Discontinuance was completed and adopted in Spring 2007.

Academic Freedom

A senate-appointed committee composed of the following faculty members has submitted a proposed Academic Freedom policy to the Academic Senate. The Academic Senate is currently discussing this proposed policy.

Academic Freedom Committee

Dave Clemens

David Joplin

Paola Gilbert

Homer Bosserman

Todd Weber

Current Academic Freedom Board Policy

Proposed Academic Freedom Policy (Endorsed at the 9-20-07 Academic Senate meeting, and a typo fixed 10-8-07)

Proposed Academic Freedom Policy with explanation. The actual wording here is actually an older version, but the explanation is still completely viable.

Academic Freedom Committee's response to comments from Fred, Caroline, Randy and Skip

This group also produced two binders of ancillary information that are available on reserve at the library

Caroline Carney comments

Randy Smith comments

Skip Seibel comments

What's all the fuss about? Check this out:

Students for Academic Freedom a group that calls UC Santa Cruz "the worst school in America"

From Inside Higher Ed, 10-23-07, The Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the University has issued a statement and is asking professors and others to sign on.

From the LA Times, 9-18-07: Drake rehires Chemerinsky as UC Irvine's first law school dean.

From the LA Times, 9-14-07: For decades, UC Irvine has aspired to open Orange County's first top-flight law school, declaring it to be the university's glaring "missing piece." The effort was thrown into turmoil after UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake abruptly dropped respected liberal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as the school's first dean. Read More

2007 AAUP report on "Freedom in the Classroom"

Dave Clemens on the 2007 AAUP Report (in a 9-10-07 e-mail): "In many ways it is a response to the kind of attacks the MPC proposed policy seeks to neutralize. Our policy, frankly, seeks to avoid conflict and pre-empt public criticism, complaint, and litigation. What makes the AAUP Report especially interesting is that it does acknowledge widespread, forceful, and effective public criticism of colleges. The Report also confirms that criticism is becoming more multivalent and demonstrates that the AAUP considers this criticism serious enough to fashion an elaborate defense."