Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, Volume 3The Association, 1917 - College teachers Includes reports of the committees on academic freedom, as follows: Vol. I, pt. 1 Annual address of the president and General report of the Committee on academic freedom and academic tenure. December 1915. Vol. II, no. 2, pt. 2. Reports of committees concerning charges of violation of academic freedom at the University of Colorado and at Wesleyan University. April 1916. Vol. II, no. 3, pt. 2. Report of the Committee of inquiry on the case of Professor Scott Nearing of the University of Pennsylvania. May 1916. |
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Academic Freedom Academic Tenure action administration American Association annual meeting appointed Association of University Board of Trustees branches BULLETIN Chairman charges Chicago Colbert Searles College of Wooster Colorado Columbia committee of inquiry Cornell Council Dean Compton Dean Hughes Dean of Women dismissal E. A. Ross Econ elected ELIAS COMPTON executive committee faculty February Florence Bascom Freedom and Academic H. W. Tyler Harvard History Holyoke Honorary Illinois Inst Isidor Loeb J. M. COULTER JOHN DEWEY Johns Hopkins June letter majority matter membership Michigan Minnesota Miss Hughes Missouri mittee Montana nominations normal school Northwestern Ohio State University Pennsylvania petition present President Craighead President Holden President White Princeton Professor Dickason proposed question RAYMOND WEEKS recommendation regard resigned resolution Secretary Stanford statement Summer School teachers teaching tion University of Montana University Professors University University vote W. F. Willcox Walter Miller Washington Wisconsin Yale
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Page 17 - Hale brought to the attention of the meeting the question of a popular journal to be published jointly by the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and stated that the matter would be brought up later for further consideration.
Page 2 - I think that a time of war must be regarded as wholly exceptional and that it is legitimate to regard things which would in ordinary circumstances be innocent as very dangerous to the public welfare. But the line is manifestly exceedingly hard to draw, and I cannot say that I have any confidence that I know how to draw it. I can only say that a line must be drawn and that we are trying — it may be clumsily, but genuinely — to draw it without favor or prejudice.
Page 116 - Judicial hearings before dismissal. " Every university or college teacher should be entitled, before dismissal or demotion, to have the charges against him stated in writing in specific terms and to have a fair trial on those charges before a special or permanent judicial committee chosen by the faculty senate or council, or by the faculty at large.
Page 116 - In other words, the person accused should be entitled to have the charges against him stated In writing in specific terms, and to have a fair trial on those charges before either the judicial committee of the faculty or a Joint committee composed of an equal number of professors and trustees...
Page 116 - Every university or college teacher should be entitled, before dismissal or demotion, to have the charges against him stated in writing in specific terms and to have a fair trial on those charges before a special or permanent judicial committee chosen by the faculty senate or council, or by the faculty at large. At such trial the teacher accused should have full opportunity to present evidence, and, if the charge is one of professional incompetency, a formal report upon his work should be first made...
Page 16 - ... may be assured of his annuity when due, one condition is indispensable: There must be set aside, year by year, the reserve necessary, with its accumulated interest, to provide the annuity at the age agreed upon. On no other conditions can the participator obtain a satisfactory contract. The man of thirty who participates in a pension plan under which he expects an annuity thirty-five or forty years in the future will take some risk of disappointment in accepting any arrangement less secure than...
Page 11 - Its objects shall be to facilitate a more effective cooperation among teachers and investigators in universities and colleges and in professional schools of similar grade for the promotion of the interests of higher education and research, and in general to increase the usefulness and advance the standards and ideals of the profession.
Page 11 - The report was originally presented as a confidential report to the trustees of the foundation. The board has not yet acted upon the proposals except to pass resolutions ordering the circulation of the report among the associated colleges and announcing " that whatever plan is finally adopted will be devised with scrupulous regard to the privileges and expectations which have been created under existing rules.
Page 11 - Officers 1. The officers of this Association shall be a President, a VicePresident, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee...