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...public statement in April, Summers said he would set the University on a course of defending academic freedom, hearkening back to the days of the 1950s, the last time Harvard faced such a significant challenge from the government...
During the 1950s, at least five other non-tenured faculty appointees had their jobs put in jeopardy when Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy questioned them about possible communist ties, according to Schrecker’s book...
...Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, Calif., has spent the past few years trying to get Harvard to issue an apology to her. She calls Gagnon’s response “absolutely unconscionable” and says Harvard should own up to its actions during the 1950s...
...University’s approach during the 1950s, Schrecker says, was to conduct its own investigations of any faculty members who came under government scrutiny, and to require graduate students with potential communist ties to “clear themselves with...
...University’s treatment of non-tenured faculty during the 1950s presents a stark contrast not only to the way it is remembered today but also to the image Harvard’s leaders projected at the time...