Whereas:
The critical approaches to research, teaching and creative expression embedded in the concept of academic freedom (as outlined in the San Francisco State University’s Academic Senate Policy on Academic Freedom #F13-267) enable the San Francisco State University faculty, staff, and students to affirm that “it is the responsibility of the entire campus community to maintain, encourage, promote, and protect academic freedom, and to ensure that it is not compromised by censorship, fear of reprisal, institutional discipline, or interference from the public or government” and also to affirm the University’s Strategic Plan and its ideals of “courage, a life of the mind, equity, community, and resilience;” and