IV. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FILES,, 1952-1974

Grouped alphabetically by heading and thereunder chronologically. Documentation of committee work and other activities in which Robert Alexander was involved as a professor at Rutgers University. Document types include minutes, agendas, correspondence, statements, reports, and writings. Includes documentation of academic freedom cases (1952-1967); the Council for Educational Development (1969-1971); a special economics seminar for Argentine students (1959-1961); the Military Education Committee (1968); and a history of the Rutgers College economics department written by Professor Alexander. Of particular interest is documentation of the Emergency Committee of Rutgers Faculty (1952-1953), set up in response to the Rutgers trustees' decision to dismiss Simon W. Heimlich and Moses I. Finley, two faculty members who refused to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security on questions related to Communist Party affiliation. The Council for Educational Development was a faculty committee which proposed innovations in the curriculum such as independent study courses, interdisciplinary courses and exchange programs; as well as considering ways to respond to the student unrest on campus. The Military Education Committee considered the status of the ROTC program and its relationship to the Rutgers College curriculum.