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APA Committee for the
Defense of Professional
Rights of Philosophers

Charge to the Committee

The Committee acts for the Association in advising and assisting members who complain of violations of their or others' professional rights, attempting when possible to resolve the issues that give rise to such complaints. The committee bases its judgment and its actions on general principles of the professional rights of scholars and teachers, which have been articulated in the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors, pertinent resolutions and statements of the Association, and precedents set by the Committee in previous cases. Inquiries will be conducted when feasible and appropriate, and the Committee may recommend to the Board that an institution be placed under censure by the Association for serious and continuing violations of professional rights.

The Divisional Representatives on the Board of Officers serve in an ex officio capacity on this Committee. The APA Ombudsperson for Nondiscrimination is a supernumerary member of this committee, who is recommended by the APA Diversity Committees and chosen by the Committee on Committees.