The File: Case Study in Correction (1977-1979)

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The File is a collection of documents from a major dispute involving a

number of American college professors, mainly mathematicians, statisticians,and sociologists. The controversy was ignited by the mathematician Serge

Lang’s reaction to a questionnaire, The 1977 Survey of the American

Professoriate , distributed by E. C. Ladd of the University of Connecticut and S. M. Lipset of Stanford. The ensuing discussion - in part acrimonious and personal - soon involved a large group of active and passive

participants, and included issues such as survey techniques, evaluation

of academic work, public and political honesty, and McCarthyism at

Harvard.