Policy documents and reports

"For the past century, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has developed standards for sound academic practice while working for the acceptance of these standards by the higher education community. 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, in some instances formulated in cooperation with other educational organizations. The current edition, the eleventh, includes basic statements on academic freedom, tenure, and due process; academic governance; professional ethics; research and teaching; online and distance education; intellectual property; discrimination; collective bargaining; accreditation; and students' rights and freedoms. The new edition has been thoroughly updated and reorganized thematically. Brief historical introductions have been added to each section, along with an introductory essay on incorporating AAUP principles into faculty handbooks. Among the eighteen new reports included in this edition are statements on academic freedom and outside speakers, campus sexual assault, the inclusion of faculty on contingent appointments in academic governance, and salary-setting practices that unfairly disadvantage women faculty. The American Association of University Professors, founded in 1915, is a professional organization whose purpose is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for the academic community, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. The AAUP remains the leading organization primarily dedicated to protecting the academic freedom of faculty."--Publisher's website.

At head of title: AAUP.

Introduction : AAUP policies and their effective use -- Academic freedom, tenure, and due process : Defining academic freedom and tenure : 1915 declaration of principles on academic freedom and academic tenure ; 1940 statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure with 1970 interpretive comments ; Freedom in the classroom ; The freedom to teach ; The assignment of course grades and student appeals ; Committee A statement on extramural utterances ; Ensuring academic freedom in politically controversial academic personnel decisions -- Academic freedom and tenure in specific contexts : Academic freedom and outside speakers ; Statement of professors and political activity ; Academic freedom and artistic expression ; Academic freedom and electronic communications ; Access to university records ; Academic freedom at religiously affiliated institutions: the "limitations" clause in the 1940 Statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure ; On the imposition of tenure quotas ; Academic freedom in the medical school ; Tenure in medical school -- Academic due process : Recommended institutional regulations on academic freedom and tenure ; Statement on procedural standards in fa…