The committee has already defined the aims and ends to be served by the fundamental activities of the university. It follows that the individual members of the faculty and the individual departments of the university are the instruments and servants of those ideal ends for the sake of which the university exists, such as the advancement of learning, the spread of knowledge, and the cultivation of capacities for intelligent and significant living. The nature of these ends is such that they can be furthered only through the free, willing and enthusiastic devotion to them of the individuals, comprising the university. Another way of stating the matter would be to say that the rights of individual members of the faculty and of individual departments are never absolute, but are always to be defined in terms of functions performed, and these in turn are defined in terms of the ends for the sake of which the functions are carried on. No individual or department has any absolute right to give any course he or the department may wish to give.
Courses are integral parts of curricula and are, as such, means to certain ends.
In practice, the Senate delegates this duty to its Committee on Courses of Instruction. Authorization and supervision of curricula are entrusted to the various colleges. The courses which constitute these curricula are, then, of interest of the Faculties of the Colleges, as well as to the Senate. It follows that it is not an infringement upon academic freedom for the Committee on Courses or for the Colleges to ask each instructor to disclose the content of the courses which he is offering, i.e., to supply a syllabus or outline of the ground covered by the course. Such service to the University includes varied types of activities, such as classroom teaching, conference with students, studying and writing, research, committee work, administration, and public service.