Censure List from the American Association of University Professors and Canadian Association of University Teachers

Investigations by the American Association of University Professors of the administrations of the institutions listed below show that, as evidenced by a past violation, they are not observing the generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure approved by this Association, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and more than two hundred other professional and educational organizations which have endorsed the1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

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Censure Lists from the American Association of University Professors and Canadian Association of University Teachers

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096509990278 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 42 (04) ◽

pp. 851

Keyword(s):

Web Site ◽

American Association ◽

University Professors ◽

Detailed History ◽

University Teachers ◽

Canadian Association ◽

History Of

The following is from AAUP's July–August 2009 issue ofAcademe. A more detailed history of the censure list can be found on the AAUP Web site:http://www.aaup.org.

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The Elusive Ideal of Academic Freedom

10.1093/oso/9780190073312.003.0018 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 215-240

Author(s):

George M. Marsden

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

World War I ◽

Academic Freedom ◽

John Dewey ◽

American Association ◽

World War ◽

University Professors ◽

Lafayette College ◽

American Schools ◽

The Ideal

Academic freedom arose as a prominent ideal at major American schools in the early twentieth century and with the founding of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in 1915. The concern was to exclude outside interests of business or religion from limiting academic freedom, as had sometimes happened. As John Dewey advocated, scientifically trained experts should be free to rule. Schools with religious heritage often had both proclaimed the freedom of professors and expected some religiously defined limits on their teaching. That was well illustrated in the controversy at Lafayette College when a conservative Presbyterian president fired a controversial professor. The ideal of academic freedom was elusive, however, because freedom always had limits as was illustrated by the controversies over national loyalty of professors during World War I. The AAUP eventually allowed religious limits on freedom if they were clearly stated in advance.

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