evaluation, and classroom expression. Academic freedom carries the corresponding responsibilities of faculty to be thoroughly prepared and well informed in their fields of knowledge and to be scrupulous in distinguishing between personal and professional judgments and between fact and opinion. Membership in the academic community imposes on students, faculty, staff, administrators, and Regents of the University an obligation to respect the dignity of others, to acknowledge their right to express differing opinions, and to foster and defend intellectual honesty, freedom of inquiry and instruction, and free expression both on and off the campus.
Faculty members shall respect the rights of all campus members to pursue their academic and administrative activities.
They shall respect the rights of all campus members to free and orderly expression.
They shall act with propriety in all dealings with members of the University community.
They shall respect the rights of all members of the University community to privacy, including privacy of desk and office space and refrain from improper or false disclosure of such member's social or political views or activities. It is not improper for a faculty member to make such a disclosure upon request from an official entitled to such information.
As an individual, each faculty member has the right to speak on his/her behalf provided he or she lets it be known that he/she does not represent the University. No faculty member has the right to speak for the University unless given that privilege by the President.
Faculty members are expected to maintain professional involvement with their academic discipline. The University encourages all faculty members to continue formal education, where applicable, and to belong to appropriate learned and professional societies in their fields. As a part of maintaining professional involvement, the University encourages faculty members to engage in scholarly research and to publish the results of that research.
Faculty shall inform students when their individual or collective efforts may be used for professional or personal advancement, or when the student(s) is (are) to be used as a research subject(s), and in either case, to ensure that the student may elect not to participate without prejudice to his or her academic standing.
The teacher will recognize appropriately any significant contribution by the student(s). Failure to credit appropriately a student's written material in any publication by the teacher will constitute plagiarism.
Faculty members may not accept compensation for assisting students in any study or course in which he or she is empowered to grant the student credit or over which he or she has any authority.
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