Box 3

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1953, 1956 [1961-1964, 1966] 1969. Routine documents including several Record of Council Meeting reports, committee reports, Council letters and minutes.

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[1964-1966]-1968. Memorandum materials, routine documents and correspondence.

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Routine documents and correspondence

Scope and Contents 1957 [1961-1965] 1973. Konvitz was the first chairman of the Cornell University Faculty Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Doctor Konvitz played an active role in the faculty's opposition to changes in the University's legislation which he thought "adversely qualified the principles of academic freedom, and particularly in the procedural sense." Konvitz served as chairman for 1 year, 1957 (November 30, 1966). Konvitz comments on several draft and position papers including one on the...

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1953-1954, 1962, 1964-1966, 1970-1971, 1974-1976, 1979. Miscellaneous material and correspondence. Material regarding the Section of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities of the American Bar Association, of which Konvitz is a member.

Scope and Contents 1948-1956, 1962. Professor Konvitz wrote to President Deane W. Malott of Cornell University on behalf of the American Friends of Hebrew University requesting Malott's approval of a plan that would enable Cornell students to spend a year in study at a Hebrew University in Jerusalem (January 11, 1955). Konvitz responds to questions of Professor Oscar I. Janowsky, Chairman of the Academic Council on a number of issues regarding university policies (for example student conduct, May 17 1954, and...

Scope and Contents 1975-[1978-1980]. Includes minutes of the Board of Directors Meetings, Executive Committee Meetings, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Board, Meetings and National Advisory Council Meetings of which Konvitz was a member. Also includes routine organizational documents. Also a letter from Roger N. Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 and its director until 1950. Baldwin mentions that he's been aware of Konvitz all these years through his writings and some of...

Scope and Contents 1975-[1978-1980]. Includes minutes of the Board of Directors Meetings, Executive Committee Meetings, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Board, Meetings and National Advisory Council Meetings of which Konvitz was a member. Also includes routine organizational documents. Also a letter from Roger N. Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 and its director until 1950. Baldwin mentions that he's been aware of Konvitz all these years through his writings and some of...