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CHEA and AAUP Release Advisory Statement on Accreditation and Academic Freedom
Council for Higher Education Accreditation
(Washington,
DC) – The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the
American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have released an
advisory statement on Accreditation and Academic Freedom.
“This
advisory statement addresses the role that accreditation plays in
sustaining and enhancing academic freedom in the context of review of
institutions and programs for quality,” said CHEA President Judith
Eaton. “It is a response to concerns that academic freedom is
increasingly challenged in today’s environment and that accreditation
can play an even more helpful role in meeting this challenge.”
AAUP
Senior Program Officer Anita Levy noted “This effort emerged from a
desire to reaffirm the importance of academic freedom and its central
role in the success of colleges and universities and the work of
faculty. The advisory statement is designed to stimulate discussion of
academic freedom among institutions, faculty and accrediting
organizations.”
In
early 2012, CHEA and AAUP agreed to work together to address the issue
of academic freedom and the role of accreditation. CHEA and AAUP brought
together a group of accrediting organizations, members of the AAUP
Committee on Accreditation and others to develop an advisory statement.
The
advisory statement has been approved both by the CHEA Board of
Directors and the AAUP Committee on Accreditation. The statement
provides guidance to CHEA institutional members, recognized accrediting
organizations and AAUP members.
A
national advocate and institutional voice for self-regulation of
academic quality through accreditation, CHEA is an association of
approximately 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and
recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations.
CHEA is the only national association focused exclusively on higher
education accreditation.
The
American Association of University Professors is a nonprofit charitable
and educational organization that promotes academic freedom and shared
governance, and defines fundamental professional values and standards
for higher education. The AAUP has approximately 48,000 members at
colleges and universities throughout the United States.
For further information, see AAUP’s 1940 Statement on Academic Freedom and Tenure and The Role of Faculty in the Accrediting of Colleges and Universities, and CHEA publications The Condition of Accreditation: U.S. Accreditation in 2011 and The Value of Accreditation.
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