APPENDIX B

POLICY ON OUTSIDE SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR FACULTY RESEARCH

1. Individual faculty members are free to seek outside funding for their research from any legal source.

2. The College will administer research funds granted to individual faculty members from any tax-exempt foundation or organization without regard to the goals or activities of the foundation or organization. This agreement to administer in no way constitutes the College's approval of, or agreement with, any purposes and objects of the outside funding sources; nor does it give any such funding source the right to imply, in its publications and advertising matter, that Smith College shares its aims.

3. Since academic freedom is the right to teach and publish the results of one's research, the College will not normally participate in any research agreements which would prevent the researcher from teaching or publishing, within a reasonable period of time, his or her findings.

4. Research agreements between a faculty member and any granting organization or individual must conform to the administrative, fiscal, and health standards of Smith College, and therefore all applications to such agencies must be processed, before they are filed, through the office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty.

5. Smith College upholds the freedom of research. It need not accept monies for faculty members from non-tax-exempt organizations or individuals if the Provost and Dean of the Faculty, in consultation with the appropriate committee of the faculty, determines that the activity supported by the grant is not primarily scholarly research.

Voted by the Smith College Faculty October 23, 1991
and approved by the Board of Trustees October 26, 1991.

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