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PA students take advantage of new academic freedom policies
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article today concerning the recent utilization of student-complaint procedures by two undergraduates at Penn State University. Penn State and Temple University enacted the policies in light of 2006 Pennsylvania House of Representatives hearings on intellectual diversity on university campuses, where ACTA's testimony played a crucial role in encouraging the adoption of measures that promote the free exchange of ideas and respect the academic freedom of both students and professors. (See our publication Intellectual Diversity: Time for Action.)
As today's story illustrates, this is a complex issue which raises many questions about the purpose and nature of university teaching, but it is one to which trustees and administrators should be attentive. And increasingly, they are doing just that. Penn State and Temple are part of a growing number of universities throughout the country taking steps to promote intellectual diversity, including the University System of Georgia (which has undertaken a self-study of the intellectual climate on campus), the University of Missouri (which passed new grievance procedures), South Dakota's public institutions (which have placed important information on course syllabi), and the City University of New York (which passed new grievance procedures and has included intellectual diversity in the qualifications for some new hires).
Posted by Sandra E. Czelusniak at July 23, 2008 05:15 PM
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