Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The group's unanimous statement, which referred both to colleges and secondary schools, explained, "Such membership, in the opinion of the Educational Policies Commission, involves adherence to doctrines and discipline completely inconsistent with the principles of academic freedom on which American education depends.
The Commission's stand against Communist teachers contravenes the position of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors. Last year the A.A.U.P. Committee stated, "(A) teacher should be dismissed because of his acts of disloyalty or because of professional unfitness, and not because...
"So long as the Communist Party in the U. S. is a legal political party, affiliation with that Party in and of itself should not be regarded as a justifiable reason for exclusion from the academic profession.
These are the days that try men's souls; the petty, perfunctory academic hurdles loom large before one's eyes. The short-sighted will feel oppressed. A flight to contemplation of the eternal grand, indifferent order of things is needed to counteract this obsession with the ephemeral. Many have turned...
They are afraid because two times, and possibly a third, these known agents have gone beyond the official FBI code of ethics to interfere directly with academic and political liberties inside the university.