Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The University of Washington had been wrestling with the problem ever since July. Did the university have the right to fire six professors because they were or had been members of the Communist Party or were associated with Communist causes? Would it be a violation of academic freedom? Last week...
The case of the six professors had begun when a committee of the Washington state legislature investigated the university. Summoned for questioning, Psychologist Ralph H. Gundlach, Philosophy Professor Herbert J. Phillips and Joseph Butterworth of the English department refused to say whether they were members of the party or not...
The young member of the Philosophy Department here refused a proffered summer appointment after Washington's president Raymond B. Allen, dismissed two members of his faculty over the objections of the University Senate. That group is the schools court of appeal in cases involving academic freedom and problems of tenure...
Aiken, who was an associate of Phillips when he taught at the University of Washington in 1945, commented that "While I do not agree with Professor Phillips' political views, the primary matter is not the expression of any particular set of convictions, but academic independence."
"I do not say that academic freedom does not have conditions," Aiken said. "The University of Washington, however, did not state its restrictions in advance, and in its flrings it has violated the legal process."