Word: professors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even in this "glance," we have found that since the end of World War 11, 39 professor have been dismissed or placed on probation, or have resigned; and that there has been legislation in 30 states affecting countless thousands of students and faculty members. We have discovered a total of 40 instances involving professors, students, visiting speakers, and legislative actions, spread over 19 states and the District of Columbia...
...September 8, 1948, as a result of the findings and publicity of the Canwell committee, the University Faculty Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom served complaints made by the administration against six faculty members. These men were Ralph H. Gundlach, associate professor of Psychology, Herbert T. Phillips, assistant professor of Philosophy, Joseph Butterworth, associate professor of English, Harold Eby and Garland Ethel of the department of English, and Melville Jacobs of the department of, Anthropology...
...January 22, the Regents met for three hours. When they walked out of the meeting, Gundlach, Phillips and Butterworth were unemployed. Eby, Ethel, and Jacobs were on two year probation. Nobody has gone so far as to define probation, but Professor Ethel said, "whatever they require of me I intend to comply...
...stated that "it is impossible to conceive how the mere fact of membership in the Communist Party could in any way affect the competency of respondent Butterworth as a teacher of Old English Literature." It might, the report found, be a possible deterrent to the competence of a philosophy professor. However, the testimony of Phillips' colleagues and students all Issued his competence and objectivity...
...Professor Randall of Columbia University points out a warning in the Washington action: "one wonders how a self-respecting teacher could consider future service in an institution in which the guarantees universally associated with 'academic freedom' seem to be so completely exposed to the vagaries of political pressure...