Word: aaup
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...AAUP Policy...
...Said the AAUP statement, appearing in April: "The tests of the fitness of a college teacher should be his integrity and his professional competence...
...AAUP suggested that "the function of the legislative branch of the Government is the enactment of legislation, and not the prosecution of individuals...
...stand taken by the Princeton chapter was reaffirmed in the AAUP statement; it dealt with political investigations of universities, and suggested that teachers could be best judged by their fellows, not by "political tests, standards of conformity, and inquisitorial procedures...
Jacob's statement in the case has aroused an official protest from the American Association of University Professors, whose principles of Academic Freedom includes the "freedom of a teacher from institutional censure or discipline in the exercise of his political rights." The AAUP has charged the college with dismissing Tandy for merely exercising his right to petition the government...