The Alexander Meiklejohn Award for Academic Freedom is given to an American college or university administrator or trustee, or to a board of trustees as a group, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to academic freedom, preferably during the preceding year.
Nominations are due April 15.
Please contact Jordan Kurland at the AAUP's Washington office for more information.
Recipients of the Alexander Meiklejohn Award for Academic Freedom
| 1958 |
President Eldon L. Johnson and the Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire |
| 1959 |
Chancellor Ethan A. H. Shepley of Washington University (St. Louis) |
| 1960 |
Dean Guerdon David Nichols of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ofThe University of Arkansas |
| 1961 |
Dr. Robert W. Mance, a trustee of Allen University |
| 1962 |
President Arthur S. Flemming of the University of Oregon |
| 1963 |
Mr. Henry L. Bowden, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Emory University |
| 1964 |
President Clark Kerr and the Board of Regents of the University of California |
| 1965 |
President Willis M. Tate of Southern Methodist University |
| 1966 |
President Mason W. Gross and the Board of Governors of Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New Jersey |
| 1968 |
President J.W. Maucker of the University of Northern Iowa |
| 1969 |
President George W. Starcher of the University of North Dakota |
| 1970 |
Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president or the University of Notre Dame |
| 1973 |
President Thomas E. O’Connell of Berkshire Community College |
| 1975 |
The Board of Trustees of the University of Maine |
| 1978 |
The Board of Trustees of Wake Forest University |
| 1984 |
Vice President for Academic Affairs Dale Nitzschke and Dean of the GraduateCollege James F. Adams of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| 1988 |
President W. Randall Lolley of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| 1995 |
President Sean Fanelli of Nassau Community College (New York) |
| 1998 |
President Roger W. Bowen of the State University of New York at New Paltz |
| 2000 |
Chancellor William Danforth of Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2003 |
President Molly Corbett Broad of the University of North Carolina |
| 2010 |
President Patricia Ann McGuire, Trinity Washington University |
Selected Acceptance Speeches
Twenty-second Alexander Meiklejohn Award. President Patricia Ann McGuire, Trinity Washington University. pdf
Twenty-first Alexander Meiklejohn Award. President Molly Corbett Broad of the University of North Carolina. First published in the September-October 2003 issue of Academe.
Twentieth Alexander Meiklejohn Award. Chancellor William Danforth of Washington University in St. Louis. First published in the September-October 2000 issue of Academe.