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To: Faculty
From: Van Horn
Please read this and pin it on your bulletin board

[Letterhead: 100th Anniversary of Public Higher Education in Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee College of Letters and Science Department of Afro American Studies Post Office Box 413 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 (414) 963-4120

November 27, 1985

MEMORANDUM

TO: Department Chairs

FROM: Frank A. Cassell, Chair
University Committee

RE: Accuracy in Academia

There has been a great deal of publicity about Accuracy in Academia and its plans to monitor our classrooms and report on faculty who are allegedly liberal or Marxist. Although there is little evidence at this time that the AIA is implementing such plans, the University Committee does take this threat quite seriously. We are asking department chairs to report any incidence of classroom monitoring or disruption to us as well as to the appropriate dean. It must be made absolutely clear to everyone that the UWM faculty and administration will not tolerate the harassment or intimidation of faculty nor will we allow the integrity of our classrooms to be violated.

For your information, UWS 18.06, Sec. 21 a & b (Conduct on University Lands) reads as follows:

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21a. No person may be present in any class, lecture, laboratory period, orientation session, examination, or other instructional session or in any room, office, or laboratory without the consent of an authorized university official or faculty member.
21b. A person shall be deemed present without consent in any class, lecture, laboratory period, orientation session, examination or other instructional session as prohibited by paragraph (a), if: (1) such person is not then enrolled and in good standing as a member of the instructional session, or (2) such person refuses to provide identification and refuses to leave such session upon request of a member of the university administration or faculty or other person in charge thereof.

Please share this information with your faculty. It will indicate to them their right to keep non students out of their classrooms.

FAC: mp
cc: Acting Chancellor Norma Rees
Acting Vice Chancellor John Schroeder
Deans