We, the Ventura College Academic Senate want to affirm the right of all faculty members to use their best professional judgment and commitment to the learning and development of their students in making unfettered selections of which texts and other materials should be used in the classes they teach.  While we recognize the right of departments to jointly adopt textbooks and other materials, faculty members retain the prerogative to make their own selections.  To best serve our college and students, we also encourage faculty to adopt their textbooks in a timely fashion.  Any interference in the right of faculty to craft and manage their classes would be an inappropriate invasion of some of the fundamental tenants of academic freedom. 

Presented to the Senate Council for First Reading April 29, 2010; Adopted as presented and without a Second Reading, April 29, 2010.