Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942) [PAGE 4]

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1. That petitioner Johnson has been an employee on the staff of the University of Illinois as professor of law on permanent tenure since 1926, in which year, while a member of the Supreme Court of North Dakota, he was appointed by the Petitiori^the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, hereinafter referred to as the Board; and during this period he has also held and performed the duties of the position of Legal Counsel or University Counsel on the staff of the University of Illinois, hereinafter referred to as the University (Pet., pp. 11, 12) ; from time members name that petitioner, but this petitioner informally and without a record vote, a t a regular meeting on April 22, 1942, indicated that it was not inclined to remove petitioner Johnson from the staff of the University; and that on the same date the Attorney General wrote petitioner Johnson a letter advising the addressee that said respondent, on April 22, 1942, accepted the resignation of petitioner Johnson as an Assistant Attorney General and as University Counsel (Pet., p. 19) ; 3. The University, in common with other schools, colleges and universities in this region, is a member of an accrediting agency, as a result of which transfers by its students and graduates to other institutions of learning are facilitated; and t h a t one of the requirements of maintaining the accredited status is a certain degree of freedom in the Board to make final decisions concerning the management and operation of the University and an absence of undue influence from interested outside sources; and that success on the part of outsiders in bringing about the ) moval of staff members endangers the accredited status of