THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE UNIVERSITY:
It would be inconsistent with its mission of free inquiry for a university to take an institutional position on moral issues, much less to enforce allegiance to a particular moral stance upon its members. But it is the university’s responsibility to provide a forum for such issues to be debated and to establish the terms of debate to ensure as careful and inclusive a set of moral considerations as possible. Participants in academic debates are accordingly obliged to recognise and be prepared to defend the moral implications of their positions.