Disturbances on Campus/Guidelines
In the interest of assisting in the preservation of academic freedom, including the important characteristics of access to sources of knowledge, freedom to reach un-pressured conclusions, and respect for freedom of movement, and the performance of responsibilities relating to this, the Board of Trustees of Community-Technical Colleges sets forth the following policies to guide faculty, students, and administrators in cases of disruption on campuses of the public community colleges in Connecticut.
College staff, faculty, and students shall be free to exercise their rights as professional staff, students, and citizens of the United States or as foreign nationals protected by the laws of the United States respecting those professional and humane courtesies which contribute to the success of the academic community.
The president, staff, faculty, and students should work to maintain study and research of ideas and facts of humanity and the universe, lawful free assembly, access to sources of knowledge, and the freedom of staff to perform teaching and administrative functions.
The Board of Trustees believes that activities as listed below and those akin to them might result in the need to take disciplinary action to maintain the right and opportunities for all segments of the campus community to learn and to teach and to administer:
- Occupying and preventing authorized use of facilities;
- Damaging, removing, or destroying college property;
- Preventing instruction, research, or other authorized activity by disorderly conduct and/or interfering with access to facilities;
- Physically detaining or removing any person engaged in lawful and/or normal college functions;
- Failing to comply with directives from college officials or law enforcement personnel issued in the performance of their duties.