American Association of University Professors (AAIP)
e AAUP definition of academic freedom includes:
"Academic freedom is the indispensable requisite for unfettered teaching and research in institutions of higher education. As the academic community's core policy document states, "institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the interest of either the individual teacher or the institution as a whole. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition"
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement,
Standard 6.4 “the institution publishes and implements appropriate policies and procedures for preserving and protecting academic freedom,” which contains the language, “Academic freedom respects the dignity and rights of others while fostering intellectual freedom of faculty to teach, research, and publish…”