Academic Freedom

A two‐year research project to study the entire issue of academic freedom is scheduled to start sometime this autumn at Columbia University in New York City. The study, which has been made possible by a grant of $60,000 to the University from the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation, will be directed by Robert M. MacIver, Lieber Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy and Sociology at Columbia. The program has been outlined and planned in a preliminary manner by a committee headed by Louis M. Hacker, Director of the University’s School of General Studies. One phase of the project will be to examine contemporary problems of academic freedom, which will depend to some extent upon consultations with representatives of colleges and universities in all parts of the United States in an effort to determine the causes and consequences of specific situations involving questions of academic freedom. At the same time, the project will explore the problem’s historical background, both here and in certain European countries. It is expected that the study will be completed by September, 1953.

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