The university is a place of teaching universal knowledge - This means that the university is concerned first with the intellectual care of its students, which implies that the university's object is intellectual, not moral.
The separation of college and state - The university's requirements for academic freedom often clash with ecclesiastical authority and so it is necessary for the two to be somewhat or totally independent of each other.The right of free inquiry - The value upon which the life of the university as a center of research and teaching depends. It's the right to ask about anything you want.
The responsibility of intellectual honesty - Tied to free inquiry, it is the responsibility to answer an inquiry to the best of your knowledge, and not to knowingly provide false information. It is also the act of remaining watchful of others who carry out intellectual dishonesty.The practice of affirming scholarly continuity - This means we should take the works of previous scholars and use them to further our own work, and to possibly continue their works where there appears to be a divergence or inconsistency.
The whole world and all of humanity are the only appropriate ultimate context of scholarship - The only reason the university exists is to serve the world in its own ways, and if it tries to accomplish that servitude without spreading its accomplishments, it is worthless. The connection of the university to other universities and the entire world is vital.Research must not take priority over personal ethics - If a researcher wants to find out the threshold of pain in a person, and the person being tested doesn't want to have one of the experiments performed on them, then the researcher must not perform that experiment. If the researcher performs it anyway, he/she is putting research over personal ethics.
Hold people to the consequences of their actions - Caring for ethics is all well and good, but if there is no discipline, it is a betrayal of the university and of its members. The members will not have learned that they will be disciplined after their university experience.Toleration of fundamental diversity of beliefs and values without sacrificing conviction - Toleration without conviction leaves you empty and conviction without toleration leaves you hard. The university should have strong convictions and beliefs, but also an open mind to respect and possibly incorporate other beliefs.
Exercise discipline of the mind - To reap the full reward of scholarship, you must practice some self-denial and discipline yourself to embrace and even master your studies. The more you put in, the more you get out of school.The university must be a community of scholars, but a community that is simultaneously free and responsible - The teacher must commune with the students so that they may learn from each other more completely, so that the students eventually achieve different conclusions that the teacher, and in turn the teacher may become the student.
The different disciplines have to recognize and respect each other - Different departments (NATS, AHUM, ENGR, SOCS) must respect the individual paths of each other but also accept the fact that there will be differing views on subjects academic, political, managerial, etc…Equal time should be given to time when students teach each other, when teachers teach students, and when students teach themselves - The social, academic, and reflective parts of a student's university life should be equal or an unhealthy imbalance can occur. Graduate students should spend more time in the part where they teach themselves.
Research collaborations should not be confined to one department or college - Many group research projects already bridge universities and regions, and often happen in an area that is not in a particular field of study.The university is a community - Newman says the university is the principal community through which human rationality can examine all existing communities, families, and structures - including itself and the church - and thus can help them to become what they are. This would not be possible if the university itself were not a community.
