1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure Download this statement as a .pdf. In 1940, following a series of joint conferences begun in 1934, representatives of the American Association of University Professors and of the Association of American Colleges (now the Association of American Colleges and Universities) agreed upon a restatement of principles set...

Academic Bill of Rights (from Students for Academic Freedom.org) I. The Mission of the University. The central purposes of a University are the pursuit of truth, the discovery of new knowledge through scholarship and research, the study and reasoned criticism of intellectual and cultural traditions, the teaching and general development of students to help them become...