Alexander Meiklejohn Award,

Following Rutgers University's support for academic freedom of faculty with controversial anti-war views, Provost Schlatter recommended that the President and/or the Board of Governors be nominated for the Alexander Meiklejohn Award. These documents follow the trail of correspondence between Schlatter and some of the administrators and faculty members of American Association of University Professors (AAUP). They include correspondence between Schlatter and President Mason W. Gross, Ralph F. Fuchs (AAUP), David Fellman (Professor of Polictical Science, University of Wisconsin) ,and William Fidler (AAUP).