Faculty

Columbia Faculty Group Passes No-Confidence Measure On President

May 17, 2024 Lexi Lonas, The Hill. Resist! Campus Movement, Columbia University, Faculty, Israel, No Confidence Vote, Palestine, Student Activism

Columbia University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a vote of no confidence Thursday against university President Minouche Shafik over her handling of the recent pro-Palestinian protests on campus. The vote, organized by the school’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), won with a 65 percent majority, though it has no real power against Shafik. The AAUP chapter released a statement highlighting the frustrations the group has with Shafik such as agreeing during a recent congressional hearing to fire a particular faculty member and ultimately bringing in the police to clear student protesters.

Emory Faculty Prepares ‘No Confidence’ Vote For University President

May 5, 2024 Lila Leblanc and Ian Rein, Mainline Zine. Resist! Atlanta, Campus Movement, Emory, Faculty, Gaza, No Confidence Vote, Police, Student Activism

Atlanta - Last Thursday, April 25, Emory students and faculty, AUCC students, and other community members from Atlanta arrived on Emory’s quad to establish a Gaza Solidarity and Stop Cop City encampment. Protesters are demanding that Emory University immediately divest from Israeli and “Cop City,” the $109 million police militarization facility being built in Weelaunee Forest in unincorporated DeKalb County. Almost immediately, Emory University President Gregory Fenves called the police to repress the protests. The Emory police, Atlanta Police Department, and Georgia State Patrol were all present.

Humboldt Faculty Condemn Police Violence Against Students

April 28, 2024 Cal Poly Humboldt Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Mondoweiss. Resist! Campus Movement, Divestment, Faculty, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism

As faculty at Cal Poly Humboldt, we deplore the use of physical violence by university, local, and regional police officers and sheriffs and the deployment of other extreme tactics such as helicopters, to surveil students, escalate tensions, and criminalize free speech exercised by students calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. We also find unacceptable the attempt to shut down student voices by shutting down campus. We call on all CPH administrators to reflect on the real harm that this crackdown on free speech inflicts and the message it sends to current and future students, their parents, faculty, and staff, and our communities within and beyond Humboldt.

Administrators Are Trying To Strip Decision-Making Power From Faculty

April 27, 2024 By Bertin M. Louis Jr. and Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt , Truthout. Educate! Democracy, Faculty, Governance, Higher Education, Worker Rights

The 2023-2024 academic year has already been very challenging for institutions of higher learning. In the midst of college closures, the firing of tenured faculty members, politically motivated bans of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs, academic program cuts at public universities, attacks on faculty and students protesting the war on Gaza, and attacks on Black faculty members for anonymous claims of plagiarism and research misconduct, there is an additional trend which is contributing to the erosion of higher education as we know it: reducing or eliminating shared governance.

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