Alexander Meiklejohn - List of writings, Reference

Educator and philosopher, born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. A childhood immigrant to the USA, he greatly improved the academic quality of Amherst College during his turbulent presidency (1912–23). He directed a short-lived experimental college at the University of Wisconsin (1927–32), and in retirement pioneered adult education in San Francisco.

Alexander Meiklejohn (February 1, 1872—December 17, 1964) was a philosopher, university administrator, and free-speech advocate. He served as dean of Brown University and president of Amherst College.

Meiklejohn was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England of Scottish descent, being the youngest of eight sons.

In the same year, he began teaching at Brown.

Meiklejohn is known as an advocate of first-amendment freedoms. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) established the Alexander Meiklejohn Freedom Award to honor his work. Meiklejohn was selected by John F.

The Meiklejohn Advising Program is Brown University's advising program for incoming first-year students. Meiklejohn Advisors (known as Meiklejohns for short) are student advisors who are paired with each first-year, along with a faculty advisor, to provide academic advice and help the transition to college.

The University of Wisconsin's Meiklejohn House (home to the Integrated Liberal Studies program) and Alexander Meiklejohn Residential College continues to espouse the ideals of Meiklejohn's experimental college by engaging in interdisciplinary liberal education.

See also: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI).

List of writings

The Liberal College Freedom and the College The Experimental College, 1932 (full text online) Free Speech and its Relation to Self-Government, 1948 (full text online) Political Freedom; the Constitutional Powers of the People

Reference

Alexander Meiklejohn: Teacher of Freedom, by Cynthia Stokes Brown.