The NSNA Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities provides: • Under no circumstances should a student be barred from admission to a particular institution on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, citizenship, religion, national origin, disability, illness, legal status, or personal attributes, or economic status . • The freedom to teach and the freedom to learn are inseparable facets of academic freedom and quality education; students should exercise their freedom in a responsible manner . • Each institution has a duty to develop policies and procedures which provide for and safeguard the students’ freedom to learn . • Students should be encouraged to develop the capacity for critical judgment and engage in an autonomous, sustained, and independent search for truth . • Students should be free to take reasoned exception in an informed, professional manner to the data or views off ered in any course of study . However, students are accountable for learning the content of any course of study for which they are enrolled . • Students should have protection, through orderly approved standard procedures, against prejudicial or capricious academic evaluation . However, students are responsible for maintaining standards of academic performance established for each course in which they are enrolled . • Information about student views, beliefs, political ideation, legal status, United States citizenship status, sexual orientation or other personal information NURSING STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
which instructors acquire in the course of their work or otherwise, should be considered confidential and not released without the knowledge or consent of the student, and should not be used as an element of evaluation . • The student should have the right to advocate for themselves and other students in the construction, delivery and evaluation of the curriculum . • Institutions should have a clearly written published policy as to the disclosure of private and confidentia information which should be a part of a student’s permanent academic record in compliance with state and federal laws . • Students and student organizations should be free to examine and discuss all questions of interest to them, and to express opinions in an informed, professional manner, both publicly and privately . • Students should be allowed to invite and hear any individual of their own choosing within the institution’s guidelines, thereby advocating for and encouraging the advancement of their education . • The student body should have clearly defined means to participate in the formulation and application of institutional policy aff ecting academic and student aff airs, thereby encouraging leadership, e . g . , through a faculty-student
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