Inventory to the Records of the Rutgers University. Board of Governors Special Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, 1952-1958

Rutgers University

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From July 12 to July 17, 1967, the city of Newark, New Jersey, was wrecked by racial violence. In six days of rioting, 23 people were killed, 725 were injured and nearly 1,500 were arrested. Property damage was estimated at over $10 million. While the riots were still in progress, sixty community leaders formed a Committee of Concern with the following aims: to help restore calm to the city, to study the causes of racial unrest, and to formulate goals for social and economic improve...

American Association of University Professors

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The national chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was organized in 1915 to advance academic freedom, shared governance and to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education. The first meeting of the AAUP at Central Washington University was held on October 14, 1954. Regular monthly meetings were held during the academic year to address faculty concerns with administrative decision-making and participative governance. Central Washington Un...

Association of American law schools

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Voorhees, Tracy S. (Tracy Stebbins), 1890-1974

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Brandis, Henry R., Jr.

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Rutgers University. Governors. Special Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

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Judge John Bigelow was chairman of the Board of Governors Special Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, which was to formulate new University statutes on academic freedom and tenure following the replacement of the Board of Trustees by the Board of Governors in September 1956 as the new governing body of the University. The rewriting of University statutes was facilitated in large part by the impending and eventual censure of Rutgers by the American Association of University Pro...

Heimlich, Simon W.

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Jones, Lewis Webster, 1899-1975

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Glasser, Abraham

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Alexander, Archibald Stevens, 1906-1979

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Archibald Stevens Alexander (1906-1979) was born in New York City. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1928 and a law degree from Harvard in 1931. Upon graduation from law school, he joined the firm of Carter, Ledyard and Millburn in New York City; he was a partner with the law firm from 1940 to 1949. During World War II, Alexander served in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was Assistant Secretary of the Army from 1949 to 1950 and ...

Hickman, Ruth W.

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Bigelow, John O.

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Gross, Mason Welch, 1911-1977

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Rutgers University. Board of Trustees

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The Board of Trustees was established by the charter of Queens College in 1766. Members of the Reformed Dutch Church requested the establishment of this college in order to educate and prepare young men for the ministry. The Board of Trustees had the responsibility for the direction of all college activities. Its duties included granting and conferring honorary degrees, nominating and appointing as well as dismissing faculty, nominating and electing new board members, purchasing and...

Finley, M. I. (Moses I.) 1912-

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Forman, Philip

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Metzger, Karl E.

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Tunks, Lehan K.

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Slade, James J.

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Woodward, Herbert Preston, 1899-1968

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