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...common perception was that Harvard was unusually good in comparison to other universities in terms of protecting academic freedom,” says Julie A. Reuben, a historian of higher education and professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education...
When Jenner and Velde began their investigations into communist influence on college campuses, Conant emphatically denied harboring communists on the faculty, but he also criticized the probes for interfering with universities’ academic freedom...
...strong feeling that the Committee’s policy of interrogating persons on their private beliefs and associations is utterly inconsistent with American traditions of freedom,” he said in a statement to the press in February...
...would regard with the gravest concern the presence on our teaching staff today of a person who is now under the domination of the Communist party...It is beyond the scope of academic freedom,” the statement read. “In the absence of extraordinary circumstances, we would regard present membership in the Communist Party by a member of our faculty as grave misconduct, justifying removal...
...June 1953, The Crimson published a special edition on academic freedom, in which editors reported that 100 professors across the nation had pleaded the Fifth while under investigation by Congress that year...