Series IV. Office of the Dean, Washington Square College, 1941-2008, inclusive

Series IV consists of a variety of materials from Dean Thomas Pollock. While some of the material consists of copies and duplicates of records from other series, such as Dean Pollock's statement before the Senate Faculty Committee, Senate Faculty Committee reports, and Burgum's correspondence with the administration among others, much of the material is unique. This includes statements and reports from Rutgers and Harvard Universities concerning academic freedom and tenure cases; correspondence between Dean Pollock and Allan Riggs, Pollock's legal counsel from New York University's School of Law; and a transcript of Burgum's testimony in 1941 before the Rapp-Coudert Committee, an investigation undertaken by the New York State Senate into the assumed existence of teachers of communist affiliation within New York City's municipal school system.