MS 647
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Sigworth, Oliver F. |
| Collection Name: | American Association of University Professors, University of Arizona Chapter printed materials |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1946-1966 |
| Physical Description: | 0.25 Linear Feet |
| Abstract: | Minutes, reports, newsletters, correspondence, and chapter letters concerning American Association of University Professors (A.A.U.P.), University of Arizona Chapter business and labor concerns of university professors mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Collection Number: | MS 647 |
| Language: | Materials are in English. |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
The American Association of University Professors is a national organization, founded in 1915, to support and advocate for academic freedom and tenure. Dr. Oliver F. Sigworth, who collected these materials, was on the faculty of the Dept. of English at the University of Arizona and was secretary of the Executive Committee of the A.A.U.P. Arizona Chapter.
Minutes, reports, newsletters, correspondence, and chapter letters concerning the Arizona Chapter of the A.A.U.P. and business and labor concerns of university professors mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. Includes organization material related to the case of Dr. MacEwan and censure of the University of Arizona administration by the national office of the American Association of University Professors in 1964. There is also material about an issue with the NAACP Tucson branch when Somalia students were denied housing, discussion of whether the R.O.T.C. should be voluntary, Barbara Elfbrandt's refusal to sign the state loyalty oath, and an Arizona State legislature bill to control campus speakers.
There are no restrictions on this collection.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
American Association of University Professors, University of Arizona Chapter printed materials (MS 647). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries
Processed by Kim Frontz in 2018.
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Newsletters, 1957-1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Minutes and reports, 1947-1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Minutes and reports, 1963 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Minutes and reports, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Minutes and reports, 1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Minutes, reports, and correspondence, 1966 | |||||||||