Motion
- Motion title
- Academic freedom: rights and responsibilities
- Session
- 2006-2007
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 30 May 2007
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 16
- Motion text
2007 UCU Congress resolves that all academic and academic related staff be free to criticise and publish without fear for their jobs; nevertheless with this freedom comes the responsibility to respect the democratic rights and freedoms of others.
Congress notes the Motion Carried Overwhelmingly at AUT 2006 Council regarding condemnation of the racism, homophobia and sexism of Frank Ellis, a lecturer in Russian at Leeds, who wrote in the local student press and was quoted in the national press as saying that black people and women are 'educationally inferior', 'Immigrants should be hunted down, rounded up and deported' and 'Homosexuality should be weeded out'. Congress further notes the AUT call on Leeds University to implement its disciplinary procedures swiftly and decisively.
- Proposing body
- University of Leeds
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Equality committee
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2007/C/05-30/015/16