Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3344 - Cleveland State University › Chapter 3344-11 - Appointment of Leadership › Section 3344-11-05 - Academic freedom

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
Cleveland state university subscribes to the 1940 "Statement of
				Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" of the American association of
				university professors and the association of American colleges as stated in
				rule 3344-11-13 of the Administrative Code.
(A) The right to demonstrate and protest on
			 university property.
It is recognized that free speech is essential in a democratic
				society. As individuals or as groups, the faculty are permitted to demonstrate
				and protest on university property in opposition to university, city, state,
				national, or international policy provided they do not violate any applicable
				local, state or federal law, or, in the case of members of the bargaining unit,
				provisions of the agreement between CSU and the CSU-AAUP chapter, and no acts
				are performed that cause damage to property (personal or university); cause
				physical injury to any individual; prevent any student from attending class,
				entering or leaving any university facility, or attending any special program
				on university property; prevent administrative officers, faculty, students,
				employees, or invited guests of the university from performing duties they are
				authorized to perform; block the normal business of the university,
				particularly classroom or laboratory instruction; and block pedestrian or
				vehicular traffic.
(B)
			 Faculty members are subject to the limitations imputed by law in the exercise
			 of their rights of freedom of speech, protest, and demonstration in support of
			 or opposition to public or university policy. Some of these limitations are set
			 forth in rule 3344-11-16 of the Administrative Code, appended,
			 hereto.
(C) Institutional due
			 process (revised June 28, 2011).
As a principle, the university will operate in such a way that
				faculty enjoy freedom from arbitrary or discriminatory treatment. Each dean or
				faculty body, as appropriate, shall establish reasonable criteria and fair
				procedures pursuant to which decisions significantly affecting faculty,
				including the assignment of courses, the scheduling of classes, the
				participation in summer semester instructional programs, and the award of
				promotional and annual salary increments shall be made.
(D) Academic freedom encompasses the freedom
			 of any faculty member and other members of the full time teaching staff to
			 address any matter of institutional policy or action, whether or not that
			 faculty member is or can be a member of any agency of institutional governance.
			 All faculty and all such members of the teaching staff have the freedom to
			 address both the Cleveland state university and broader communities with regard
			 to any social, political, economic, or other interest. Exercise of these
			 freedoms shall not be subject to institutional discipline or restraint, save
			 for statements or actions that constitute disciplinary incompetence, "good
			 cause" for dismissal, violations of professional ethics, and/or that are
			 disruptive. Academic responsibility includes the good faith performance of
			 professional duties and obligations, the recognition of the demands of the
			 scholarly enterprise, and the candor to make it clear that, when one is
			 speaking as a citizen on matters of public interest, one is not speaking for
			 the institution. Nothing, herein, diminishes the university's existing powers
			 of selecting, retaining and removing from an administrative position a faculty
			 member who jointly holds that administrative position; in the case of joint
			 faculty-administrative appointments, only the person's faculty status is
			 protected by this rule.