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Free Intellectual Inquiry and Speech Policy

Policy

PURPOSE

The purpose of this policy is to ensure the freedom of intellectual inquiry and speech for all staff and students, of Global Leadership Institute (GLI) relating to their area of academic research and scholarship without fear or favour.

 

DEFINITIONS

Academic freedom: includes the rights of all staff and students for intellectual inquiry and speech without any hindrance including to:

 

· hold and express opinions about the operations of the Institute and higher education policy more generally;

· pursue critical and open inquiry and (where appropriate) to teach, assess, develop curricula, publish and research;

· if appropriate, participate in public debates as a recognised expert or as a person with recognised specialist knowledge;

· express unpopular or controversial views, although this does not mean the right to harass, vilify or intimidate other persons or to demean alternative points of view.

 

Freedom of speech: includes academic freedom as well as the following:

 

· freedom of academic staff and students to make public comment on any issue in their personal capacities, not speaking either on behalf of the Institute or as representative of the Institute;

· freedom of academic staff to participate in professional or representative academic bodies;

· freedom of students to participate in student societies and associations;

· autonomy of the Institute which resides in its Governing Board, Executive Management Team and academic staff relating to the choice of courses, the ways in which they are taught and research activities and the ways in which they are conducted.

 

External visitor: any person who is not an invited visiting speaker and for whom permission is sought to speak on the Institute’s premises or facilities.

Internal visitor: any person who has been invited by the Institute or by a student society or association or group of students or representative body or by a member or members of the academic staff of the Institute to speak on the Institute’s premises or facilities.

Speech: extends to all forms of expressive conduct including oral speech and written, virtual, artistic, musical and performing works and activity; the word ‘speak’ has a corresponding meaning.

 

The objective of protecting the wellbeing of staff and students:

 

· includes the objective of ensuring that no member of staff and no student suffers unfair disadvantage or unfair adverse discrimination by reason of their inherent attributes;

· includes the objective of ensuring that no member of staff and no student is subject to threatening or intimidating behavior by another person or persons on account of anything they have said in exercising their freedom of speech;

· supports reasonable and proportionate measures to prevent any person from using lawful speech which is intended to insult, humiliate or intimidate other persons and which a reasonable person would regard, in the circumstances, as likely to have one or more of those effects;

· does not extend to protecting any person from feeling offended or shocked or insulted by the lawful speech of another.

 

GLI property includes:

· real property forming part of the Institute;

· precincts;

· buildings or discrete parts of buildings;

· technology and academic learning systems;

· building spaces such as lecture theatres, laboratories, libraries, classrooms and meeting rooms;

· landscape features within the Institute domain that may be defined by areas, locations, focal points, gardens, trees, playing fields, walkways, streets, bridges, stairs and terraces.

 

PRINCIPLES

· GLI supports and encourages staff and students to pursue lines of enquiry and to express personal views, both within the Institute and publicly, in their area of academic expertise;

· academic staff must make every effort to indicate that they are not speaking on behalf of the Institute. Also, members of academic staff will not identify themselves as a staff member of the Institute when speaking, writing or otherwise communicating on matters not within the province of their academic expertise;

· academic staff and student responsibilities include approaching any issue in a balanced, open, fair and academically rigorous way;

· responsibilities of GLI include the creation and maintenance of a culture that fosters such enquiry and which does not, in any way, penalise those who may express views that do not align with the views of the institution;

· GLI is not restricted nor its exercise burdened by limits or conditions other than those imposed by law or by reasonable regulation of access to and use of the Institute’s premises and facilities and the discharge of its duty of care to those who come on to its premises;

· GLI ensures that freedom of speech and intellectual inquiry as aspects of academic freedom are treated as paramount values by the Institute;

· GLI affirms the importance of autonomy in the regulation of its affairs, including in the protection of freedom of speech and academic freedom of the Institute community;

· any power or discretion conferred on the Institute or the Student Representative Group including powers or discretions conferred under contract or workplace agreements or deriving from property rights, whether as to real or other property, shall be exercised, so far as is reasonably practicable, in accordance with these principles;

· every member of staff and every student at the Institute have the same freedom of lawful speech in connection with activities conducted on Institute premises or otherwise in connection with the Institute, as any other person in their circumstances, subject only to the constraints imposed by:

 

– reasonable and proportionate regulation of conduct necessary to the discharge of the Institute’s teaching and research activities;

– right and freedom of all to express themselves and to hear and receive information and opinions;

– reasonable and proportionate regulation of conduct to enable the Institute to fulfil its objective to fostering the wellbeing of students, staff and visitors.

 

· subject to reasonable and proportionate regulation of the kind referred to in the previous principle, a person’s lawful expressive conduct on the Institute’s premises or in connection with the Institute activity shall not constitute misconduct nor attract any penalty or other adverse action by reference only to its content or manner of delivery;

· the exercise by a academic staff member or by a student of academic freedom in accordance with these principles shall not constitute misconduct nor attract any penalty or other adverse action;

· in entering into affiliation, collaborative or contractual arrangements with third parties and in accepting donations from third parties subject to conditions, the Institute shall take all reasonable steps to minimise the constraints imposed by such arrangements or conditions on the freedom of speech or academic freedom of any member of the academic staff or students carrying on research or study under such arrangements or subject to such conditions;

· the Institute has the right and responsibility to determine the terms and conditions upon which it shall permit external visitors and invited visitors to speak on Institute premises and use Institute facilities and in so doing may:

 

–  require the person or persons organising the event to comply with the Institute’s booking procedures and to provide information relevant to the conduct of any event, and any public safety and security issues;

– distinguish between invited visitors and external visitors in framing any such requirements and conditions;

– refuse permission to any invited visitor or external visitor to speak on Institute premises or at Institute facilities where the content of the speech is or is likely to:

 

o be unlawful or in breach of any lease or license under which the Institute occupies the premises

o prejudice the fulfilment by the Institute of its objective of fostering the wellbeing of staff;

o involve the advancement of theories or propositions which do not meet scholarly standards to such an extent as to be detrimental to the Institute’s character as an institution of higher learning;

o in the case of an external visitor, require the person or persons seeking permission for the use of Institute premises or facilities to contribute in whole or in part to the cost of providing security and other measures in the interests of public safety and order in connection with the event at which the external visitor is speaking.

 

· subject to the preceding principles, the Institute shall not refuse permission for the use of its premises or facilities by an external visitor or invited visitor solely based on the likely content of the visitor’s proposed speech;

· the Institute may provide special support including dedicated rooms or places for any particular group of students, which is likely to benefit from such support in the discharge of its objective of fostering the wellbeing of students.

 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The President is responsible to ensure that the policy is implemented across GLI. The Dean and the Registrar are responsible to ensure that staff in their relevant departments are made aware of this policy.

 

Scope

Whole Institute

Key Stakeholder

All staff and students

Proceedure

If a staff member or students believes their academic freedom has been compromised, they may follow the Staff Grievance Policy or Student Grievance and Appeals Policy. GLI has the right to act in accordance with its policies if a staff member or student breaches this policy.

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Owner : Chair, Executive Management Team

Approval Body : Governing Board

Endorsement Body : Executive Management Team

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Associate Professor Jason Hartley

Jason Hartley is lecturer in criminology at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He is a former police officer with 23 years of experience, and has trained personnel for deployment in Timor Leste, the Solomon Islands, Iraq and Afghanistan. Jason specializes in, and has published on engagement with Muslim communities, Indigenous Polynesian approaches to rehabilitation and reducing recidivism, and Asian Organised Crime. Jason also completed a community internship in Hebron on the West Bank.

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Simone Fulcher

Simone Fulcher is the Campus Manager at Global Leadership Institute responsible for managing the day-to-day operations for the campus. Simone has previously worked in the education sector for over 5 years where she has enjoyed helping young minds realise their potential. Simone also has a history of volunteer work assisting various communities in improving their quality of life in places such as New South Wales, Guam, and Palau. Simone still enjoys volunteering, currently organising events for young adults in Southeast Queensland and helping them form connections their fields of interest.

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Professor Grant Pitman

Professor Grant Pitman is the president of the Global Leadership Institute. He has held senior leadership roles in government such as Chief Superintendent of Police and Director of Strategic Planning ICT in the Queensland Police Service;

  • Varied list of contributions to law enforcement, including disaster management, auditing and finance, organizational reform, education and human resources, and policy development
  • National, state, and regional levels of professional service, including the Ipswich Economic Forum, the Brisbane Airport Emergency Planning Committee, the National Emergency Communications Working Group, the National Police Drug and Alcohol Task Force, and the Police Education Advisory Council.

He has a Ph.D. and Master of Administration from Griffith University. He is a well-versed researcher and has published numerous articles and journals.

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Professor Kevin Tickle

Professor Kevin Tickle has extensive experience in Executive Management roles in the tertiary education sector, both public and private, over the last two decades and has been a consultant to Higher Education providers in Australia and overseas. His primary areas of interest are Leadership, Management, Information Technology, Mathematics and Statistics with expertise in the areas of probability modelling; decision support, and data analytics. He is currently a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, the Australian Computer Society and an Emeritus Professor at CQUniversity.

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Mr Des Lacy OAM

Des serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the Asia Pacific Chapter of FBI National Academy Associates, after completing 40 years in the Queensland Police Service. During his distinguished career, Des was District Officer (A/Chief Superintendent) in Charge of the Gold Coast Police District, Police Commander for the Gold Coast Indy, Super V8s, Gold Coast Marathon, and Schoolies, as well as National Rugby League and Australian Foot League events in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Des oversaw development and implementation of the Integrated Justice Information Systems, Integrated Traffic Policing Program, and Integrated Tasking and Analysis System. He served as Director of the Strategic Services Branch and Information and Communications Technology Command, as well as Chair of the District Disaster Management Group and Security Operations Coordinator for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. 

Des has been a member of Rotary International for 30 years, representing Rotary International in the United States and the Middle East. For his work in the Gold Coast Community Des was awarded Citizen of the Year at the 2013 Gold Coast Australia Day celebrations. Des also was one of the founding Directors for the Oxenford and Coomera Community Youth Centre that provides much needed social services to the Northern Gold Coast Community. For the past 15 years, he has also been the Chair of this not-for-profit establishment. It. For his work promoting International Law Enforcement Des was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2017.

Qualifications

Graduate Diploma of Management

Graduate Certificate Business Management 

Bachelor of Business

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Katherine Weissel

Katherine is a security and risk specialist with 25 years’ experience in an Australian Police Force, leading teams and responding to emergency events, complex investigations, and counterterrorism.  She has led and managed several major crime, counterterrorism and public safety operations and investigations, and coordinated teams within police operations centres and major incident rooms.  She has delivered training across multiple Australian jurisdictions in emergency response, counterterrorism, and investigations; and specialised in cyber operations in the counterterrorism environment for a number of years.  She has also been deployed to international jurisdictions supporting complex war crimes investigations and prosecutions.  Since moving into the private sector, Katherine has provided consulting and training services in the areas of security and risk, organisational governance & investigations, and cybersecurity.  Katherine is a sessional tutor in tertiary education in criminal justice studies specialising in counterterrorism, global law, crime and justice, and cybercrime.  She has presented to state and national security, cybersecurity and governmental conferences on contemporary physical & cyber threats and risk management.  Katherine has also been involved in research teams examining government responses to terrorism and extremism, and cybersecurity policy.

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Dr Shantanu Banerjee

Dr Shantanu Banerjee is senior lecturer at Leaders Institute. With extensive experience in management, leadership, and administration across a range of contexts in India and Australia, Dr Banerjee is also currently an Industry Fellow at the University of Queensland Business School. His research focuses on socio-cultural-political contexts, particularly in the field of agribusiness and international business. His research has highlighted variations in the theme of international competitiveness by emphasising non-economic and non-market variables and on how multinational enterprises subsidiaries can pursue legitimacy pursuing non-market strategies. 

Dr Banerjee has presented his research work at esteemed international conferences such as ANZIBA and EIA and has published in scholarly journals including International Business Review and Management International Review. He graduated from the Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi (India) and the University of Queensland Business School. He has been an academic staff member at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology, lecturing in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Dr Banerjee has over 15 years of extensive and varied experience as an International Business Manager dealing and negotiating with overseas clients based in the United States of America, China, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. He is currently employed with a Federal agency of the Australian Treasury. 

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Queensland, 2012

Master of Research, Queensland University of Technology, 2005

Master of Business, Queensland University of Technology, 2003

Postgraduate Diploma in International Trade, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, 1986

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, 1985

 

Communities of Practice

  • Editorial Board, Academy of International Business
  • Editorial Board, European Academy of Management
  • Editorial Board, Leadership & Management Studies in Sub-Sahara Africa Conference
  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
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Associate Professor Ben Arachi

BIOGRAPHY

Associate Professor Ben Arachi has four decades (1977-2023) of experience in higher education leadership and teaching. During his 15 years as Unit Coordinator at Central Queensland University, he received two Excellence in Teaching Awards and was nominated for the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Learning and Teaching and the Australian Awards for University Teaching. His online learning study was published in Economics for Today (Cengage 2022).

Previously, Associate Professor Arachi  served as Vice Principal, Head of the Department of Extension and Research, and Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal at Arul Anandar College, India (1992-1997). He was then Research Coordinator and Course Coordinator (1999-2008), as well as Chair of the Division of Economics (2000-2005) at HELP University, Malaysia. This included senior involvement in the application to become a University College and then a full University.

Associate Professor Arachi also has over 20 years of experience as a higher degree research supervisor, moderator, and examiner for doctoral degrees. In his five years as a Coordinator of All India Christian Higher Education, he organised numerous state-level seminars and workshops for academics in higher education in India. He has published four monographs, many research papers and articles while editing the Research AAC Journal of Economics. He has reviewed many higher education textbooks.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Madursi Kamaraj University, India, 1989

  • Master of Arts, University of Madras, 1975 (Gold Medalist)

  • Bachelor of Arts, Madursi Kamaraj University, India, 1973 (University Rank and Merit Scholarship)

  • Diploma in Applied Economics, Madursi Kamaraj University, India, 1980

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP

  • Member, Academic Board, 2023-current

  • Chair, Examiners Committe, 2023-current

  • Member, Course Advisory Committee, 2022-current

AWARDS

  • Central Queensland University Student Voice Commendation. The 2021 program includes unit evaluation data from term 3, 2020 and terms 1 and 2, 2021.

  • Central Queensland University  Student Voice Commendation. The 2020 program includes unit evaluation data from term 3, 2019 and terms 1 and 2, 2020.

  • Central Queensland University Central Queensland University Platinum certificate Top rated Unit in Term 2, 2019

  • Central Queensland University Gold certificate Highly rated Unit in Term 2,2019 (ACCT20070)

  • Gold certificate Highly rated Unit in Term 2,2019 from CQU(ECON11026)

  • Charles Sturt University Excellence in Teaching Award (ECO511)

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Dr Bandula Nambukara-Gamage

Dr Bandula Nambukara-Gamage is a Senior Lecturer of Accounting and Finance at James Cook University, Brisbane campus. He currently teaches Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Accounting, Master of Professional Accounting, and Master of Business Administration students based on the Brisbane campus. Dr Nambukara-Gamage has previously lectured at Central Queensland University, Federation University, and Charles Darwin University.

QUALIFICATIONS

Doctor of Philosophy, University of New England, 2013

Master of Commerce

Licentiate Certificate (recognised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia)

Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours)

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Professor Rod St Hill

Professor Rodney St Hill is the former President of Leaders Institute (2018-2020) and serves as Senior Pastor (2016-current) at IgniteLife Church Gold Coast, where he heads IgniteLife Business, an outreach to Christians in business. He is a leader in the global Business As Mission movement. He also consults on governance and executive management in higher education and business, with a particular special interest in Christian education institutions and businesses.

Previously, Professor St Hill was a long-term senior leader and Vice President Academic of Christian Heritage College, Brisbane. With the input of his colleagues and many others in his network, he developed business curriculum that embeds the ‘5 P missional business’ model – a model of production, people, planet, and profit. He was also Dean of Students, among other roles, at University of Southern Queensland (1993-2009).

QUALIFICATIONS

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cantebury, 1989

Bachelor of Commerce (Hons 1), University of Newcastle, 1979

EXTERNAL EXPERT REVIEWER

External Member, various course assessment panels in business, management and leadership at Alphacrucis College, Australian College of Divinity, and Avondale University College, 2014 to 2020

Member: Australian Institute of Company Directors

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Member: Economic Society of Australia

External Expert, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), 2019-current

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Free Intellectual Inquiry and Speech Policy

Policy

PURPOSE

The purpose of this policy is to ensure the freedom of intellectual inquiry and speech for all staff and students, of Global Leadership Institute (GLI) relating to their area of academic research and scholarship without fear or favour.

 

DEFINITIONS

Academic freedom: includes the rights of all staff and students for intellectual inquiry and speech without any hindrance including to:

 

· hold and express opinions about the operations of the Institute and higher education policy more generally;

· pursue critical and open inquiry and (where appropriate) to teach, assess, develop curricula, publish and research;

· if appropriate, participate in public debates as a recognised expert or as a person with recognised specialist knowledge;

· express unpopular or controversial views, although this does not mean the right to harass, vilify or intimidate other persons or to demean alternative points of view.

 

Freedom of speech: includes academic freedom as well as the following:

 

· freedom of academic staff and students to make public comment on any issue in their personal capacities, not speaking either on behalf of the Institute or as representative of the Institute;

· freedom of academic staff to participate in professional or representative academic bodies;

· freedom of students to participate in student societies and associations;

· autonomy of the Institute which resides in its Governing Board, Executive Management Team and academic staff relating to the choice of courses, the ways in which they are taught and research activities and the ways in which they are conducted.

 

External visitor: any person who is not an invited visiting speaker and for whom permission is sought to speak on the Institute’s premises or facilities.

Internal visitor: any person who has been invited by the Institute or by a student society or association or group of students or representative body or by a member or members of the academic staff of the Institute to speak on the Institute’s premises or facilities.

Speech: extends to all forms of expressive conduct including oral speech and written, virtual, artistic, musical and performing works and activity; the word ‘speak’ has a corresponding meaning.

 

The objective of protecting the wellbeing of staff and students:

 

· includes the objective of ensuring that no member of staff and no student suffers unfair disadvantage or unfair adverse discrimination by reason of their inherent attributes;

· includes the objective of ensuring that no member of staff and no student is subject to threatening or intimidating behavior by another person or persons on account of anything they have said in exercising their freedom of speech;

· supports reasonable and proportionate measures to prevent any person from using lawful speech which is intended to insult, humiliate or intimidate other persons and which a reasonable person would regard, in the circumstances, as likely to have one or more of those effects;

· does not extend to protecting any person from feeling offended or shocked or insulted by the lawful speech of another.

 

GLI property includes:

· real property forming part of the Institute;

· precincts;

· buildings or discrete parts of buildings;

· technology and academic learning systems;

· building spaces such as lecture theatres, laboratories, libraries, classrooms and meeting rooms;

· landscape features within the Institute domain that may be defined by areas, locations, focal points, gardens, trees, playing fields, walkways, streets, bridges, stairs and terraces.

 

PRINCIPLES

· GLI supports and encourages staff and students to pursue lines of enquiry and to express personal views, both within the Institute and publicly, in their area of academic expertise;

· academic staff must make every effort to indicate that they are not speaking on behalf of the Institute. Also, members of academic staff will not identify themselves as a staff member of the Institute when speaking, writing or otherwise communicating on matters not within the province of their academic expertise;

· academic staff and student responsibilities include approaching any issue in a balanced, open, fair and academically rigorous way;

· responsibilities of GLI include the creation and maintenance of a culture that fosters such enquiry and which does not, in any way, penalise those who may express views that do not align with the views of the institution;

· GLI is not restricted nor its exercise burdened by limits or conditions other than those imposed by law or by reasonable regulation of access to and use of the Institute’s premises and facilities and the discharge of its duty of care to those who come on to its premises;

· GLI ensures that freedom of speech and intellectual inquiry as aspects of academic freedom are treated as paramount values by the Institute;

· GLI affirms the importance of autonomy in the regulation of its affairs, including in the protection of freedom of speech and academic freedom of the Institute community;

· any power or discretion conferred on the Institute or the Student Representative Group including powers or discretions conferred under contract or workplace agreements or deriving from property rights, whether as to real or other property, shall be exercised, so far as is reasonably practicable, in accordance with these principles;

· every member of staff and every student at the Institute have the same freedom of lawful speech in connection with activities conducted on Institute premises or otherwise in connection with the Institute, as any other person in their circumstances, subject only to the constraints imposed by:

 

– reasonable and proportionate regulation of conduct necessary to the discharge of the Institute’s teaching and research activities;

– right and freedom of all to express themselves and to hear and receive information and opinions;

– reasonable and proportionate regulation of conduct to enable the Institute to fulfil its objective to fostering the wellbeing of students, staff and visitors.

 

· subject to reasonable and proportionate regulation of the kind referred to in the previous principle, a person’s lawful expressive conduct on the Institute’s premises or in connection with the Institute activity shall not constitute misconduct nor attract any penalty or other adverse action by reference only to its content or manner of delivery;

· the exercise by a academic staff member or by a student of academic freedom in accordance with these principles shall not constitute misconduct nor attract any penalty or other adverse action;

· in entering into affiliation, collaborative or contractual arrangements with third parties and in accepting donations from third parties subject to conditions, the Institute shall take all reasonable steps to minimise the constraints imposed by such arrangements or conditions on the freedom of speech or academic freedom of any member of the academic staff or students carrying on research or study under such arrangements or subject to such conditions;

· the Institute has the right and responsibility to determine the terms and conditions upon which it shall permit external visitors and invited visitors to speak on Institute premises and use Institute facilities and in so doing may:

 

–  require the person or persons organising the event to comply with the Institute’s booking procedures and to provide information relevant to the conduct of any event, and any public safety and security issues;

– distinguish between invited visitors and external visitors in framing any such requirements and conditions;

– refuse permission to any invited visitor or external visitor to speak on Institute premises or at Institute facilities where the content of the speech is or is likely to:

 

o be unlawful or in breach of any lease or license under which the Institute occupies the premises

o prejudice the fulfilment by the Institute of its objective of fostering the wellbeing of staff;

o involve the advancement of theories or propositions which do not meet scholarly standards to such an extent as to be detrimental to the Institute’s character as an institution of higher learning;

o in the case of an external visitor, require the person or persons seeking permission for the use of Institute premises or facilities to contribute in whole or in part to the cost of providing security and other measures in the interests of public safety and order in connection with the event at which the external visitor is speaking.

 

· subject to the preceding principles, the Institute shall not refuse permission for the use of its premises or facilities by an external visitor or invited visitor solely based on the likely content of the visitor’s proposed speech;

· the Institute may provide special support including dedicated rooms or places for any particular group of students, which is likely to benefit from such support in the discharge of its objective of fostering the wellbeing of students.

 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The President is responsible to ensure that the policy is implemented across GLI. The Dean and the Registrar are responsible to ensure that staff in their relevant departments are made aware of this policy.

 

Scope

Whole Institute

Key Stakeholder

All staff and students

Proceedure

If a staff member or students believes their academic freedom has been compromised, they may follow the Staff Grievance Policy or Student Grievance and Appeals Policy. GLI has the right to act in accordance with its policies if a staff member or student breaches this policy.

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