University Reform : The Founding of the American Association of University Professors

How the AAUP fought to give voice to America's faculty and defend academic freedom. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded to advance the professionalization of America's faculty. University Reform examines the social and intellectual circumstances that led to the organization's initial development, as well as its work to defend academic freedom. It explores the AAUP's 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. "Academic freedom, the intellectual bedrock of American intellectual activities, was not always a shared value, but one that emerged from faculty collective action. This book provides a detailed history of the founding and early activities of the American Association of University Professors set into the broader societal and intellectual circumstances that affected its initial development. Key to the story, of course, is the influential work of Arthur O. Lovejoy at Johns Hopkins and John Dewey at Harvard in establishing this national association and very early professional trade union. The professionalization of the faculty, which accompanied the development of the American research university, identified academic freedom as a central element of professional autonomy. Public debates over academic freedom occurred within the broader debate of the balance of power in the American university. This debate was strongly influenced by the perspectives of the Progressive Era: the goal to democratize university governance was presented frequently in terms similar to the broader goal of democratizing American society. These developments were central to the establishment of the Association, and individual founders of the AAUP played an active part in many of them, inside and outside of academe"-- Provided by publisher. Contents......Page 6 Foreword by Michael Bérubé......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction. The University Question......Page 16 1. No Hired Man: Faculty and the Development of Higher Education......Page 23 2. University Reform: Governance and Academic Freedom......Page 37 3. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching......Page 60 4. The Committee of Nine......Page 80 5. The Founding of the AAUP......Page 96 6. First Investigations and the Committee of Fifteen......Page 114 7. The 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure......Page 135 8. The Goal of Investigations and the Early Development of Academic Due Process......Page 152 9. Academic Freedom in the Age of Repression......Page 168 10. Academic Unrest......Page 193 11. The Growth and Development of the Association......Page 213 Conclusion. From University Reform to the 1920s......Page 231 Appendix. Officers of the AAUP, Members of Committee A, and Members of Investigative Committees, 1915–20......Page 238 Notes......Page 242 A......Page 282 C......Page 283 D......Page 284 H......Page 285 L......Page 286 P......Page 287 S......Page 288 U......Page 289 Z......Page 290 Illustrations......Page 74 "The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded to advance the professionalization of America's faculty. University Reform examines the social and intellectual circumstances that led to the organization's initial development, as well as its work to defend academic freedom. It explores the AAUP's 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"-- Provided by publisher.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded to advance the professionalization of America’s faculty. University Reform examines the social and intellectual circumstances that led to the organization’s initial development, as well as its work to defend academic freedom. It explores the AAUP’s 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.