ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TENURE

Under the minutes of the Trustees' meeting will be found the note regarding academic freedom and tenure which was adopted by both the Trustees and the faculty.

The history of the above action is as follows: The local chapter of the American Association of University Professors took up, for discussion, in the fall of 1915, the report of the committee of the American Association on Academic Freedom and Tenure and gave particular attention to the series of specific recommendations appended to that report. Several meetings were given to the discussion, and especially to an adaptation of these recommendations to the local needs and situation. The modifications which were agreed upon were of minor character with the exception of two.

In the first place, the local chapter included. among the subjects to be considered by the committee of the faculty in conference with the President, that of appointments as well as re-appointments and refusals of reappointment. In the second place, it modified the proposal that action should be taken only with the advice and consent of a committee of the faculty, so that it should read "only after consultation with."

Upon the suggestion of the local chapter, the faculty asked the trustees to appoint a committee to confer with a similar committee of the faculty concerning these proposals, which request was granted. Conferences between the faculty and trustee committees began last December and resulted in the formulation, by the committee of Trustees, of the series of proposals adopted by both bodies and printed as above.