Description: Illinois Conference of the American Association of University Professors' Archives include subject files of presidents Donald Plozin (1969-70), Conley Stutz (1989-1992), Gordon Dorn (1992-1998), executive committee, membership committee (1976-80), and executive secretaries (1968-88) and containing correspondence, reports, clippings, articles, newsletters, mailing lists, photographs, minutes, statements, salary and budget information, by-laws, union surveys relating to academic freedom and tenure, loyalty oaths, Illinois master plan for the 1960s, Clabaugh Act, teacher's unions, strikes, Staughton Lynd Case (1967-68), campus unrest (Horsely Committee), unionization and collective bargaining, organizational drives, chapter grant applications, Committee R mailings, rosters (1978-1996), national and state publications (1971-84), and the Northern Illinois University Chapter of the AAUP (1951-72); correspondents include Arthur J. Dipden, Allen D. Weaver, Victor Stone, Scott Bennett, Martha Friedman, Gordon Dorn, Constance Caveny, Kenneth Andersen, AAUP members, state and national politicians, educators, and lawyers.
The Academic Freedom and Tenure Case files are RESTRICTED (see finding aid for conditions).