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...teaching fellows will also seek Faculty members willing to serve on a proposed committee under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors. The committee, if the AAUP chapter agrees to set it up, would study the teaching fellows' situation at Harvard...
...approach would be some form of using publicity against the University, an institution acutely conscious of its image. One avenue to this sort of pressure could be the American Association of University Professors, a prestigious body whose national president is Clark Byse, professor of Law. In the past, the AAUP has concerned itself chiefly with academic freedom, confirming its action on salaries to publishing yearly rating of universities by comparative pay scales. But the teaching fellows believe that the AAUP is about to take an active interest in the situation of junior faculty. Federation representatives conferred with local AAUP officials...
This would indeed be an unfortunate move for the Teaching Fellows for a number of reasons. First, because the AAUP has been unsuccessful in the past challenging three universities, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton: the best example of this was the sad case four years ago of a professor of English at Princeton whose case of tenure was championed by the organization, its lawyers and mediators, to no avail. Secondly, because Teaching Fellows are legally students, and however many teaching duties they perform, they have no legal claim to bargain with the university on the same level that full-time teaching...
...administration has also been accused of bugging phone lines of students suspected of "troublesome" behavior. Faculty AAUP meetings are always attended, one professor reports, by a few administration "plants." And during the demonstrations, Dean Jones openly told the students that other students and plainclothes policemen would be circulating among them with tape recorders and cameras, and that any evidence they gathered would be used against the demonstrators...
...administration reinstate the Friends of SNCC immediately, issue a statement clarifying the circumstances of Mack Jones' dismissal, and promise not to call the police. The administration, however, refused. At the meeting of the T.S.U. chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the faculty members voted to ask the AAUP's special committee on academic freedom investigate the circumstances of Jones' release...