Davis Appeals Case To AAUP

Davis Appeals Case To AAUP

Dismissed U-M Man Seeks Severance Pay

Dr. H. Chandler Davis, dismissed from the University faculty for failure to co-operate with a congressional committee investigating communism, has appealed to the American Association of University Professors to examine his dismissal and the refusal of the Board of Regents to grant his severance pay.

Davis, a mathematics instructor, and Prof. Mark Nickerson of the Medical School, were dropped from the faculty last August. The Regents, at that time, provided no severance pay for the pair, and last week rejected an appeal from the Literary College faculty that severance pay be granted to Davis.

Prof. Gardner Ackley, president of the local chapter of the AAUP, said he was "disappointed" at the Regents' refusal to grant severance pay to Davis.

"I think that the University's action was a serious mistake which threatens to undermine faculty confidence and other aspects of the tenure system, Ackley said.