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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964
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1963] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 585 versity, to some member of the Faculty Advisory Committee that he believes that cause for dismissal may exist; b) If the President suspends after so giving notice to the chairman or some member of the Faculty Advisory Committee, or during consultation with the Faculty Advisory Committee, such suspension shall terminate within twenty days after that Committee has made its recommendations to the President unless the President initiates dismissal proceedings by the filing of charges for dismissal within that twenty-day period; and, c) If the President initiates dismissal proceedings by filing charges for dismissal, he may suspend the appointee, or may extend a previous suspension of the appointee, until the termination of those proceedings, or until the effective date of dismissal if the proceedings result in dismissal. (9) Publicity. So far as possible public statements about a case under consideration should be avoided until completion of the proceedings. [(f) Any member of the faculty of the University, who claims that termination of his services would violate principles of academic freedom, shall have the right to a hearing before the Committee on Academic Freedom of the appropriate Senate prior to a hearing, if any, before the Board of Trustees. Such hearings shall be conducted in accordance with established rules of procedure. T h e Committee shall make findings of fact and recommendations to the President of the University. The several Committees may, from time to time, establish their own rules of procedure.] ACADEMIC FREEDOM ACADEMIC FREEDOM Sec. 39 ( a ) It is the policy of the University to maintain and encourage full freedom, within the law, of inquiry, discourse, teaching, research, and publication and to protect any member of the academic staff against influences, from within or without the University, which would restrict him in the exercise of these freedoms in his area of scholarly interest. T h e right to the protection of the University shall not, however, include any right to the services of the University's Legal Counsel or his assistants in any governmental or judicial proceedings in which the academic freedom of the staff member may be in issue. Sec. 39 ( a ) It is the policy of the University to maintain and encourage full freedom, within the law, of inquiry, discourse, teaching, research, and publication and to protect any member of the academic staff against influences, from within or without the University, which would restrict him in the exercise of these freedoms in his area of scholarly interest. The right to the protection of the University shall not, however, include any right to the services of the University's Legal Counsel or his assistants in any governmental or judicial proceedings in which the academic freedom of the staff member may be in issue.
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