Records consisting mainly of correspondence of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure of the Association concerning cases of faculty dismissals investigated by the Committee during the administrations of presidents John Dewey (1915), John H. Wigmore (1916), and Frank Thilly (1917). Among the institutions involved are the Universities of Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Texas, Stanford and Wesleyan Universities, Allegheny, Bryn Mawr, Colorado, Dartmouth, Marietta, and Wooster Colleges, the Connecticut College for Women, and Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. Also, pamphlets, clippings, and other printed matter; and administrative letters dealing with dues, meetings, reports, and finances.