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Academic
Council
Statement on the Obligation of Collegiality
[Adopted on February 19, 1980]
A university community is a privileged arena
for the free development and fearless exchange of ideas. Disagreements
inevitably arise, but the way to resolve them is through persuasion by reasoned
argument. Threats of violence or efforts to intimidate are not acceptable as
forms of persuasion anywhere, least of all within the University. We regard it,
therefore, as a breach of collegiality for a faculty member either to engage
personally in threatening behavior or to counsel other constituents in the
University to exert undue pressure by insulting, intimidating, coercing, or
threatening individual faculty on controversial issues.
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