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The University of Michigan Senate's Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom was established in 1990 to honor three professors.:
Clement L. Markert (left)
Mark Nickerson (center), and
H. Chandler Davis (right),
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The protection of academic and intellectual freedoms requires a constant reminder of their value and vulnerability. To provide for that reminder, the Faculty of the University of Michigan hereby resolves to establish an Annual Senate Lecture on Academic and on Intellectual Freedom...
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University of Michigan
Senate Assembly Resolution
Adopted November 19, 1990
A Brief History of the University of Michigan Senate's Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom and the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund
view the action item adopted by the Regents to establish the professorship in honor of H. Chandler Davis, Clement L. Markert and Mark Nickerson.
2018 lecture
2019 lecture
Henry F. Reichman,
Chair of the American Association of University Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure
Chair of AAUP Foundation
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“Do Adjuncts Have Academic Freedom?, or Why Tenure Matters”
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October 27, 2020, 4pm
UM Law School
100 Hutchins Hall,
625 E. State Street
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...freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth.
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Justice Louis D. Brandeis
1927
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