Aquí está el tercer y último artículo de la serie que escribió el ex-decano Mark Ryan. Este artículo se titula "Sobre la Libertad de Expresión en las Universidades".
Puede resultar interesante contrastar esta visión con la que acaba de definir el Rector Palou en una entrevista reciente.
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Esta liga contiene recomendaciones de la UNESCO, adoptadas el 11 de noviembre 1997, relativas al estatus del personal académico de instituciones de educación superior.
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13144&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Me permito reproducir un fragmento del documento.
VI. Rights and freedoms of higher-education teaching personnel
A. Individual rights and freedoms: civil rights, academic freedom, publication rights, and the international exchange of information
25. Access to the higher education academic profession should be based solely on appropriate academic qualifications, competence and experience and be equal for all members of society without any discrimination.
26. Higher-education teaching personnel, like all other groups and individuals, should enjoy those internationally recognized civil, political, social and cultural rights applicable to all citizens. Therefore, all higher-education teaching personnel should enjoy freedom of thought, conscience, religion, expression, assembly and association as well as the right to liberty and security of the person and liberty of movement. They should not be hindered or impeded in exercising their civil rights as citizens, including the right to contribute to social change through freely expressing their opinion of state policies and of policies affecting higher education. They should not suffer any penalties simply because of the exercise of such rights. Higher-education teaching personnel should not be subject to arbitrary arrest or detention, nor to torture, nor to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. In cases of gross violation of their rights, higher-education teaching personnel should have the right to appeal to the relevant national, regional or international bodies such as the agencies of the United Nations, and organizations representing higher-education teaching personnel should extend full support in such cases.
27. The maintaining of the above international standards should be upheld in the interest of higher education internationally and within the country. To do so, the principle of academic freedom should be scrupulously observed. Higher-education teaching personnel are entitled to the maintaining of academic freedom, that is to say, the right, without constriction by prescribed doctrine, to freedom of teaching and discussion, freedom in carrying out research and disseminating and publishing the results thereof, freedom to express freely their opinion about the institution or system in which they work, freedom from institutional censorship and freedom to participate in professional or representative academic bodies. All higher-education teaching personnel should have the right to fulfil their functions without discrimination of any kind and without fear of repression by the state or any other source. Higher-education teaching personnel can effectively do justice to this principle if the environment in which they operate is conducive, which requires a democratic atmosphere; hence the challenge for all of developing a democratic society.
28. Higher-education teaching personnel have the right to teach without any interference, subject to accepted professional principles including professional responsibility and intellectual rigour with regard to standards and methods of teaching. Higher-education teaching personnel should not be forced to instruct against their own best knowledge and conscience or be forced to use curricula and methods contrary to national and international human rights standards. Higher education teaching personnel should play a significant role in determining the curriculum.
29. Higher-education teaching personnel have a right to carry out research work without any interference, or any suppression, in accordance with their professional responsibility and subject to nationally and internationally recognized professional principles of intellectual rigour, scientific inquiry and research ethics. They should also have the right to publish and communicate the conclusions of the research of which they are authors or co-authors, as stated in paragraph 12 of this Recommendation.
30. Higher-education teaching personnel have a right to undertake professional activities outside of their employment, particularly those that enhance their professional skills or allow for the application of knowledge to the problems of the community, provided such activities do not interfere with their primary commitments to their home institutions in accordance with institutional policies and regulations or national laws and practice where they exist.
B. Self-governance and collegiality
31. Higher-education teaching personnel should have the right and opportunity, without discrimination of any kind, according to their abilities, to take part in the governing bodies and to criticize the functioning of higher education institutions, including their own, while respecting the right of other sections of the academic community to participate, and they should also have the right to elect a majority of representatives to academic bodies within the higher education institution.
32. The principles of collegiality include academic freedom, shared responsibility, the policy of participation of all concerned in internal decision making structures and practices, and the development of consultative mechanisms. Collegial decision-making should encompass decisions regarding the administration and determination of policies of higher education, curricula, research, extension work, the allocation of resources and other related activities, in order to improve academic excellence and quality for the benefit of society at large.
Si se fijan, en el comentario anterior dice lo siguiente....
In cases of gross violation of their rights, higher-education teaching personnel should have the right to appeal to the relevant national, regional or international bodies such as the agencies of the United Nations, and organizations representing higher-education teaching personnel should extend full support in such cases.
Por tanto, posiblemente la SEP y la misma UNESCO tienen el deber de opinar y/o intervenir, sin importar que la UDLA sea una universidad privada.
Tal vez, las personas afectadas deberían dirigirse a las oficinas de la UNESCO en México y a la Comisión Mexicana de Cooperación con la UNESCO.
UNESCO MÉXICO
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Colonia Polanco, 11560 México, D.F.
Tel: +52 55 5093-1650
Fax: +52 55 5093-1652
E-mail: mexico@unesco.org
Comisión Mexicana de Cooperación con la UNESCO-CONALMEX
Presidenta : Sra. Josefina Vázquez Mota
Secretario General : Dr. Daniel González Spencer
Secretaria General Adjunta : Sra. Isabel Farha Valenzuela
Secretario Técnico : Dr. Ricardo Guerrero Morales
Dirección : Donceles No. 100, 2° piso
06020 Centro Histórico
MEXICO, D.F.
MEXICO
Teléfono : (52) 55 53 29 69 40
Fax : (52) 55 53 29 69 43 (Sec.gen.); (52) 55 53 29 69 41
E-mail : dgri@sep.gob.mx; ifarha@sep.gob.mx; ricardogm@sep.gob.mx
Dirección Web : http://www.sep.gob.mx (Secretaría de Educación Pública)
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