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University Reform:

The Founding of the American Association of University Professors
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The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded to advance the professionalization of Americas faculty.University Reform examines the social and intellectual circumstances that led to the organizations initial development, as well as its work to defend academic freedom. It explores the AAUPs subsequent response to World War I and the first Red Scare. It also describes the founders efforts, especially those of Arthur O. Lovejoy and James McKeen Cattell, in securing a greater role for faculty in the government of colleges and universities.

Foreword by Michael Bérubé
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The University Question
1. No Hired Man
2. University Reform
3. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
4. The Committee of Nine
5. The Founding of the AAUP
6. First Investigations and the Committee of Fifteen
7. The 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure
8. The Goal of Investigations and the Early Development of Academic Due Process
9. Academic Freedom in the Age of Repression
10. Academic Unrest
11. The Growth and Development of the Association
Conclusion. From University Reform to the 1920s
Appendix. Officers of the AAUP, Members of Committee A, and Members of Investigative Committees, 1915–20
Notes
Index

""University Reform speaks importantly to our current moment""

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