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Records, 1952-1958.

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Correspondence, minutes, statute drafts, amended articles, and statements of President Jones and University Committees relating to the development by the Special Committee of new policies and procedures regarding academic freedom. Includes material relating to the cases of professors Abraham Glasser, Moses I. Finley, and Simon W. Heimlich, who resigned or were dismissed following their invokation of the Fifth Amendment in refusal to testify before Congressional subcommittees in regard to their possible Communist Party affiliations, including documentation of Glasser's 1956 demand of a new hearing by the Board of Governors, drafts and the final report of a Special Committee, consisting of Board Members Bigelow, Federal Judge Philip Forman, and Mrs. Ruth W. Hickman, formed to respond to Glasser's new charges against the University, and the Statement of the Board of Governors Regarding Glasser, written by Tracy S. Voorhees, a member of the former Board of Trustees, which provided background on the cases and justified the University's actions; material relating the the censure of Rutgers by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Association of Law Schools (AALS); and documentation of. Glasser's demand of a new hearing by the Board of Governors.

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