Academic freedom of faculty and students is a foundational principle central to academic institutions. CCSF is unequivocally and unalterably committed to the principle of academic freedom in its true sense which includes freedom to study, freedom to learn, and freedom to teach and provide educational professional services to students. The institution’s faculty and students are free to examine and test all knowledge appropriate to their discipline or area of major study as judged by the academic/educational community in general. Regardless of institutional affiliation or sponsorship, the institution maintains an atmosphere in which intellectual freedom and independence exist. 

A Story of Academic Freedom at CCSF

CCSF Board Policy on Academic Freedom (BP 6.06)  may be downloaded from this page:

http://www.ccsf.edu/en/about-city-college/board-of-trustees/policies---administrative-procedures.html#instructional

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The importance and necessity of Academic Freedom is also reiterated in the College Catalogue entitled ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES on page 450: http://www.ccsf.edu/dam/ccsf/documents/OfficeOfInstruction/Catalog/AcademicPoliciesandProcedures_2013-14op.pdf

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The Academic Freedom policy is again emphasized and further explained in the Faculty Handbook under Section 4.1 entitled ACADEMIC FREEDOM on page 49:

http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Human_Resources/handbookpdf/FHandbook.pdf

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