09.05.24
Editorial Note
In the past few weeks, campuses across America have witnessed an unprecedented wave of protest, with Columbia University attracting the most attention. Student protesters built tent encampments, calling on the University to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The police broke up the Columbia encampment last week and arrested more than 100 people. A similar situation has occurred in other universities. Since the protest began, 2,400 arrests have been made on 50 campuses.
Although ostensibly called in support of the Palestinians in Gaza, many of the protests developed into antisemitic hate fests. The antisemitic language, the harassment of Jewish students, and violent threats to the State of Israel, such as “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” and “Tel Aviv will burn,” was particularly saddening. Ironically, Israel just commemorated the anniversary of the murder of six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
While the police cleared out many of the encampments, the administration of some universities struck deals with the protesters. In exchange for an agreement to divest, the protesters at Brown, Northwestern, and Rutgers, among others, the students suspended their campaign.
The deals included commitments to review their investments in Israel while urging them to stop doing business with Israel. The colleges have also made some concessions around amnesty for protesters and funding for Middle Eastern studies.
An encampment on Rutgers’ Newark campus is still active. A peaceful resolution was reached at the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus. University leaders agreed to several of a 10-point list of demands from the protesters, including a commitment to explore creating an Arab cultural center, to implement support for ten displaced Palestinian students to finish their education at Rutgers, and to follow university policy and review the student movement’s main demand that universities divest from companies with business interests in Israel. University President Jonathan Holloway and the Joint Committee on Investments chairman agreed to meet with up to five student representatives to discuss the protesters’ divestment request. As part of the agreement, Rutgers said it will “revisit and follow up on the relationship established in 2022 with Birzeit University to explore avenues of research collaboration and scholarly exchange and the feasibility of student exchange and/or study abroad through RU Global Studies.” Birzeit is in the Palestinian West Bank. In a statement, Chancellor Francine Conway referred to the protesters’ request for divestment from companies doing business with Israel and for Rutgers to cut ties with Tel Aviv University and said this request is under review, but “such decisions fall outside of our administrative scope.”
Protesters at Brown University in Rhode Island agreed to dismantle their encampment if students could present arguments for divesting Brown’s endowment from companies contributing to and profiting from the war in Gaza.
Brian E. Clark, from the Spokesperson Office at Brown University wrote IAM and stated, President Christina Paxson “is asking the [advisory] committee to provide a recommendation on the matter of divestment — that recommendation may be for or against divestment, and either way, the matter will then go to Brown’s governing board for a formal vote.”
Northwestern’s Deering Meadow in Chicago made an agreement, promising the re-establishment of an advisory committee on university investments. Seven of 18 members subsequently resigned from a university committee that advises the administration on addressing antisemitism, Islamophobia, and expressions of hatred on campus, saying they couldn’t continue to serve “with antisemitism so present at Northwestern in public view for the past week.” Michael Simon, the executive director of an organization for Jewish students, Northwestern Hillel, said he resigned after concluding that the committee could not achieve its goals.
At Pomona College in California, faculty voted in favor of divesting from companies that they said are funding Israel’s war in Gaza. The vote is not binding, but supporters said they hope it would encourage the board to stop investing in these companies and start disclosing where it makes its investments. The school responded, “This nonbinding faculty statement does not represent any official position of Pomona College… We will continue to encourage further dialogue within our community, including consideration of counterarguments.”
At the University of California, Riverside, administrators announced an agreement with protesters to close their campus encampment. The deal included the formation of a task force to explore removing Riverside’s endowment from the broader UC system’s management. The announcement marked an apparent split with the policy of the 10-campus UC system, which last week said it opposes “calls for boycott against and divestment from Israel.” Adding, “While the University affirms the right of our community members to express diverse viewpoints, a boycott of this sort impinges on the academic freedom of our students and faculty and the unfettered exchange of ideas on our campuses.” Since “UC tuition and fees are the primary funding sources for the University’s core operations. None of these funds are used for investment purposes.” The final agreement included the following demands, which both parties signed. “The School of Business has discontinued Global Programs in Oxford, USA, Cuba, Vietnam, Brazil, China, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel.” The UCR Administration “agrees to form a task force that includes students… to explore the removal of UCR’s endowment from the management of the UC Investments Office… with consideration to the companies involved in arms manufacturing and delivery.” Demanding the “full disclosure of the list of companies in the portfolio and the size of the investments.” And demanding “an ongoing review of Sabra Hummus consistent with existing product review processes until we can find a resolution.”
For Jewish and other critics, the agreements amount to a shameful surrender. They note that, unlike the Vietnam war protests, the current demonstration was suffused with vulgar antisemitism, harassment and violence against Jewish students, genocidal threats against Israel, and celebration of Hamas terrorists who slaughtered innocent civilians, engaged in horrendous sexual violence, and kidnappings. Succumbing to the violent mob that considers Hamas’s action an act of resistance is a dangerous precedent.
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https://www.msn.com/he-il/news/other/striking-deals-to-end-campus-protests-some-colleges-invite-discussion-of-their-investments/ar-AA1o77SVStriking Deals to End Campus Protests, Some Colleges Invite Discussion of Their Investments
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NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-war demonstrations ceased this week at a small number of U.S. universities after school leaders struck deals with pro-Palestinian protesters, fending off possible disruptions of final exams and graduation ceremonies.
The agreements at schools including Brown, Northwesternand Rutgers stand out amidst the chaotic scenes and 2,400-plus arrests on 46 campusesnationwide since April 17. Tent encampments and building takeovers have disrupted classes at some schools, including Columbia and UCLA.
Deals included commitments by universities to review their investments in Israelor hear calls to stop doing business with the longtime U.S. ally. Many protester demands have zeroed in on links to the Israeli military as the war grinds on in Gaza.
The agreements to even discuss divestment mark a major shift on an issue that has been controversial for years, with opponents of a long-running campaign to boycott Israel saying it veers into antisemitism. But while the colleges have made concessions around amnesty for protesters and funding for Middle Eastern studies, they have made no promises about changing their investments.
“I think for some universities, it might be just a delaying tactic to diffuse the protests,” said Ralph Young, a history professor who studies American dissent at Temple University in Philadelphia. “The end of the semester is happening now. And maybe by the time the next semester begins, there is a cease-fire in Gaza.”
Some university boards may never even vote on divesting from Israel, which can be a complicated process, Young said. And some state schools have said they lack the authority to do so.
But Young said dialogue is a better tactic than arrests, which can inflame protesters.
Talking “at least gives the protesters the feeling that they’re getting somewhere,” he said. “Whether they are getting somewhere or not is another question.”
Israel has called the protests antisemitic; its critics say the country uses such allegations to silence opposition. Although some protesters were caught on camera making antisemitic remarks or violent threats, protest organizers — some of whom are Jewish — have called it a peaceful movement to defend Palestinian rights and protest the war.
Administrators at the University of California, Riverside, announced an agreement Friday with protesters to close their campus encampment. The deal included the formation of a task force to explore removing Riverside’s endowment from the broader UC system’s management and investing those funds “in a manner that will be financially and ethically sound for the university with consideration to the companies involved in arms manufacturing and delivery.”
The announcement marked an apparent split with the policy of the 10-campus UC system, which last week said it opposes “calls for boycott against and divestment from Israel.”
“While the University affirms the right of our community members to express diverse viewpoints, a boycott of this sort impinges on the academic freedom of our students and faculty and the unfettered exchange of ideas on our campuses,” the system said in a statement. “UC tuition and fees are the primary funding sources for the University’s core operations. None of these funds are used for investment purposes.”
Demonstrators at Rutgers University — where finals were paused due to the protests on its New Brunswick campus — similarly packed up their tents Thursday afternoon. The state university agreed to establish an Arab Cultural Center and to not retaliate against any students involved in the camp.
In a statement, Chancellor Francine Conway noted protesters’ request for divestment from companies doing business with Israel and for Rutgers to cut ties with Tel Aviv University. She said the the request is under review, but “such decisions fall outside of our administrative scope.”
Protesters at Brown University in Rhode Island agreed to dismantle their encampment Tuesday. School officials said students could present arguments for divesting Brown’s endowment from companies contributing to and profiting from the war in Gaza.
In addition, Brown President Christina Paxson will ask an advisory committee to make a recommendation on divestment by Sept. 30, which will be put before the school’s governing corporation for a vote in October.
Northwestern’s Deering Meadow in suburban Chicago also fell silent after an agreement Monday. The deal curbed protest activity in return for the reestablishment of an advisory committee on university investments and other commitments.
The arrangement drew dissent from both sides. Some pro-Palestinian protesters condemned it as a failure to stick to their original demands, while some supporters of Israel said it represented “cowardly” capitulation.
Seven of 18 members subsequently resigned from a university committee that advises the administration on addressing antisemitism, Islamophobia and expressions of hatred on campus, saying they couldn’t continue to serve “with antisemitism so present at Northwestern in public view for the past week.”
Michael Simon, the executive director of an organization for Jewish students, Northwestern Hillel, said he resigned after concluding that the committee could not achieve its goals.
Faculty at Pomona College in California voted in favor of divesting from companies they said are funding Israel’s war in Gaza, a group of faculty and students said Friday.
The vote Thursday is not binding on the liberal arts school of nearly 1,800 students east of Los Angeles. But supporters said they hope it would encourage the board to stop investing in these companies and start disclosing where it makes its investments.
“This nonbinding faculty statement does not represent any official position of Pomona College,” the school said in a statement. “We will continue to encourage further dialogue within in our community, including consideration of counterarguments.”
Meanwhile, arrests of demonstrators continued elsewhere.
About a dozen protesters who refused police orders to leave an encampment at New York University were arrested early Friday, and about 30 more left voluntarily, NYU spokesperson John Beckman said. The school asked city police to intervene, he added.
NYPD officers also cleared an encampment at The New School in Greenwich Village on the request of school administrators. No arrests were announced.
Another 132 protesters were arrested when police broke up an encampment at the State University of New York at New Paltz starting late Thursday, authorities said.
And nine were arrested at the University of Tennessee, including seven students who Chancellor Donde Plowman said would also be sanctioned under the school’s code of conduct.
The movement began April 17 at Columbia, where student protesters built an encampment to call for an end to the Israel-Hamas war.
More than 100 people were arrested late Tuesday when police broke up the Columbia encampment. One officer accidentally discharged his gun inside Hamilton Hall during that operation, but no one was injured, the NYPD said late Thursday.
Over 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict in the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry there. Israel launched its offensive after Oct. 7, when Hamas militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages in an attack on southern Israel.
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This story has been corrected to show that 132 protesters were arrested at the State University of New York at New Paltz, not 133.
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Rutgers student encampment ends peacefully with agreement. Here are the details
Mary Ann Koruth
NorthJersey.com
2024/05/03
A peaceful resolution to a four day standoff at a student encampment at the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus protesting Israel’s attacks on Gaza cooled tensions and put to rest fears of violent escalation on a hot Thursday afternoon.
University leaders agreed to several of a 10-point list of demands from the protesters, including a commitment to explore creating an Arab cultural center, to implement support for 10 displaced Palestinian students to finish their education at Rutgers, and to follow university policy and review the student movement’s main demand that universities divest from companies with business interests in Israel.
University President Jonathan Holloway and the chairman of the Joint Committee on Investments agreed to meet with up to five student representatives to discuss the protesters’ divestment request, provided they cleared the encampment.
The students also demanded amnesty for all protest participants. The university said it would not retaliate by terminating jobs or reducing pay, but said individual students “were subject” to the university’s code of conduct.
The demands and final agreement were laid out in a message from Rutgers-New Brunswick chancellor Francine Conway, sent out after students in the encampment began rolling up tents and blankets and walking away late Thursday.
As part of the agreement, Rutgers said it will “revisit and follow up on the relationship established in 2022 with Birzeit University to explore avenues of research collaboration and scholarly exchange, and the feasibility of student exchange and/or study abroad through RU Global Studies.” Birzeit is in the Palestinian West Bank.
Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois became the first U.S. school to publicly announce a deal with protesters on Monday, which was followed by Brown University’s announcement on Tuesday of an agreement with student organizers to curb protest activity on the Ivy league campus in Providence, Rhode Island, on Tuesday in exchange for the Brown Corporation voting on a divestment measure in October.
The afternoon’s events came hours after police broke up protests at UCLA and Columbia University, arresting hundreds of students. At nearby Princeton University, 13 students were arrested Monday night, and some protesters announced a hunger strike and fast Friday until the university engages with their demands, organizers said.
An encampment on Rutgers’ Newark campus is still active. At Rutgers-New Brunswick, the protesting students and Holloway welcomed reaching an agreement before a 4 p.m. Thursday deadline issued by Holloway for students to vacate the greens on College Avenue after morning exams were postponed.
The agreement signals a peaceful finals week and end of semester in New Brunswick after a contentious 12 months for Holloway, who last year at this time was navigating an unprecedented faculty strike.Several faculty members and adjunct professors in the AAUP union’s black, white and red T-shirts showed up at the tents on College Avenue to support the students’ right to protest peacefully. Union leaders said that in addition to supporting free speech, many felt they owed support to students, which included many pro-Palestinian protesters who had supported them during last years’ walkout that halted classes for a week. Some exams scheduled for the afternoon Thursday were moved, and students were told to check for updates with their departments. Students cheered and chanted, “Free, Free Palestine,” after an organizer read out a draft of the agreement. A smaller group called out a Muslim religious chant. Hours before, with the deadline to vacate looming and several police cars parked around the green, the group had chanted “Holloway is a tyrant.” Students in the encampment debated what to do if they could not
arrive on an agreement with university leaders. The consensus at one point was to stay within the encampment and protect it. “I am in full support of protecting the encampment but I do not support mass arrests,” said one student. He said he did not want a “military response” like Columbia. The crowd listened. He was referring to the fact that earlier in the week Columbia University sent NYPD officers onto its Ivy League campus to arrest more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators, some of whom had barricaded themselves into a building on the campus.
‘A note of appreciation’
Negotiations between student organizers and Rutgers administrators ended sometime before 4 p.m., the deadline the university had given students to clear out. A cheer went through the crowd when a student addressed them, saying that progress had been made.
She was followed by a man who said he was Palestinian and a Rutgers alumnus who had lost generations of family members in Gaza during the Israeli attacks after Oct. 7, which occurred in retaliation to Hamas’ attacks in Israel on Oct. 7 last year. He cautioned the students to “fight hard” and continue to ensure their demands were met, but not to escalate or make a spectacle of themselves.
Later that evening, Holloway sent out a message titled ” A Note of Appreciation” thanking everyone “who worked to bring a peaceful end to the protest.”
“At the beginning of the semester, I asked the community to reflect on ways that we can preserve our freedoms in the face of forces that will seek to divide us, how we can embrace them with the awesome responsibility they require — to be respectful and open-minded, to be intellectually honest and curious, and to be civil, decent, and understanding of one another,” he said.
“We still have a great deal of work ahead and will continue to be tested. I ask everyone to be civil to one another, to be respectful of one another, and to embrace our shared humanity,” the message said.
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UC Riverside reaches peaceful agreement with student encampment leaders
By Julie Sharp May 3, 2024 / 3:08 PM PDT / KCAL News
University of California, Riverside administration reached an agreement with leaders of the student encampment Friday, leading to a clearing of the occupied campus area by no later than midnight.
Administration said meetings had been productive and civil, with the focal point of the agreement being transparency of UC’s investments and the forming of a task force to explore the possibility of UCR’s endowment to be removed from the management of the UC Investments Office.
The sit-in at UCR began Monday, April 29, with demands that the university disclose its investments and funding and that it divest from companies and institutions “complicit in the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide” of Palestinians.
The same message went out at other college campus protests and rallies in the state and across the Country.
In Southern California, pro-palestinian protestors took to UC Irvine, UCLA, UC San Diego, USC, Pitzer College and at Cal State Long Beach.
Other campuses have not had such peaceful negotiations, as violence broke out at the UCLA encampment, where over 200 people were arrested on Thursday. At USC, 93 people were arrested Wednesday as police ordered the dismantling of the encampment.
In UCR’s Friday’s agreement letter, Chancellor Kim Wilcox thanked the campus community for navigating ” the complexities of this week’s events with patience, grace, and civility.”
“This agreement does not change the realities of the war in Gaza, or the need to address antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of bias and discrimination; however, I am grateful that we can have constructive and peaceful conversations on how to address these complex issues,” Wilcox wrote.
UCR’s full agreement terms are as follows:
- All currently public information on UC’s investments will be posted to the UCR campus website. It will continue to be updated as the UC releases more information. The goal is to get full disclosure of the list of companies in the portfolio and the size of the investments.
- The UCR Administration agrees to form a task force that includes students appointed by ASUCR’s Diversity Council and faculty appointed by the Academic Senate to explore the removal of UCR’s endowment from the management of the UC Investments Office, and the investment of said endowment in a manner that will be financially and ethically sound for the university with consideration to the companies involved in arms manufacturing and delivery. The goal of this task force is to produce a report to present to the UCR Foundation Board of Trustees by the end of Winter Quarter 2025. The task force will be formed by the end of the Spring 2024 quarter.
- Commitment to bimonthly meetings with the AVC of Auxiliary Services and an ongoing review of Sabra Hummus consistent with existing product review processes until we can find a resolution.
- The School of Business has discontinued Global Programs in Oxford, USA, Cuba, Vietnam, Brazil, China, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel.
- UCR will modify its approval process for all study abroad programs to ensure compliance with UC’s Anti-Discriminatory Policies.
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Agreement to peacefully end encampment on campus
KIM A. WILCOX
Chancellor
May 3, 2024
Dear Campus Community,
Since Wednesday, several UC Riverside campus leaders have been meeting with the leaders of the student encampment on campus. These meetings have been productive, civil, and representative of multiple points of view on how to reach a resolution.
I am pleased to share that we have reached an agreement that will result in the peaceful conclusion of the encampment by no later than midnight tonight. Please click here to view the full agreement, which will be carried out consistent with state and federal law.
It has been my goal to resolve this matter peacefully and I am encouraged by this outcome – which was generated through constructive dialogue.
UCR values students’ right to practice peaceful free speech, as well as our Principles of Community and the safety of our students, staff, faculty, and visitors.
This agreement does not change the realities of the war in Gaza, or the need to address antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of bias and discrimination; however, I am grateful that we can have constructive and peaceful conversations on how to address these complex issues.
Thank you to every member of our campus community who has navigated the complexities of this week’s events with patience, grace, and civility.
Update: FAQs on the agreement are available here.
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https://insideucr.ucr.edu/announcements/2024/05/03/faqs-encampment-agreement
FAQs on encampment agreement
OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR
May 3, 2024
Why are the School of Business Global Programs in Oxford, USA, Cuba, Vietnam, Brazil, China, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel being discontinued as part of the agreement?
Through our dialogue, we learned that these study-abroad programs were not offered under the auspices of the UC Riverside Office of International Affairs, nor are they consistent with university policies. So they are being discontinued.
Why is Sabra Hummus being singled out for review?
Sabra’s name was included in the agreement because it was mentioned in the protestors’ list of demands. Sabra’s availability on campus will be reviewed in the same manner as other vendors. All campus vendors are subjected to the same standards.
What is the status of the encampment?
Removal of the tents is already underway and will come down by midnight tonight.
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Rutgers University and protestors on Voorhees Mall have agreed that by Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM ET, the protest taking place on Voorhees Mall will be ended. All students involved will leave the encampment, remove all tents and personal belongings, and clear the mall of all trash. This agreement is contingent upon no further disruptions and adherence to University policies.
Regarding the requests presented by protestors of the Gaza Liberation Zone, the Advisory Council for Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian Life will serve as a taskforce in leading ongoing conversations and convening faculty taskforces on academic matters in collaboration with the Office of the Chancellor:
1. Divest from any firm or corporation materially participating in, benefitting from, or otherwise supporting the state of Israel’s settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide of Palestine and the Palestinian people, in accordance with the principles for divestment listed in University policy 40.2.14. A request from the Endowment Justice Collective to divest from companies doing business in Israel was received on April 2, 2024, and is undergoing the review process that is outlined in the university’s investment policy. The University President and the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Investments will meet with no more than five student representatives to discuss the divestment request provided the end of encampment.
2. Terminate its partnership with Tel Aviv University including in the HELIX Innovation Hub. Agreements with global partners are a matter of scholarly inquiry.
3. Accept at least 10 displaced Gazan students to study at Rutgers University on scholarship. Rutgers University has a close partnership with Scholar Connections and will work with a committee of students, faculty, and staff to implement support for 10 displaced Palestinian students to finish their education at Rutgers.
4. Provide resources for Palestinian and Arab students in the form of an Arab Cultural Center on each Rutgers campus. We will develop a plan for the creation of an Arab Cultural Center with designated physical space and a hiring plan for administrators and staff by the start of Fall 2024 semester at New Brunswick.
5. Establish a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a long-term educational and collaboration partnership with Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine — in accordance with precedent set by William Paterson University Rutgers-New Brunswick will revisit and follow up on the relationship established in 2022 with Birzeit University to explore avenues of research collaboration and scholarly exchange, and the feasibility of student exchange and/or study abroad through RU Global Studies.
6. Name “Palestine” and “Palestinians” in all future communications related to Israeli aggressions in Palestine (as opposed to “Middle East” “Gaza region” etc.), and release a statement from the Office of the President acknowledging the ongoing genocide against Palestinians, its impact on the Palestinian community at our university, and advocating for a ceasefire. The Chancellor will continue to name Palestine, Palestinians, and Gaza in future communications.
7. Hire senior administrators with cultural competency and knowledge about Arabs, Palestinians, Muslims, anti-Palestinian racism, and Islamophobia. Rutgers–New Brunswick will work to develop training sessions on anti-Palestinian, antiArab, and anti-Muslim racism for all RU administrators & staff. We also commit to the hiring of a senior administrator who has cultural competency in and with Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian communities in the Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community.
8. Hire additional professors specializing in Palestine studies and Middle East studies, institute a center for Palestine studies, and establish a path to departmentalization for Middle East studies. The Office of the Chancellor will convene a working group to conduct a feasibility study for the creation of a Department of Middle East Studies and hire faculty. The first task of the committee is to identify gaps in the current faculty and make recommendations.
9. Display the flags of occupied peoples – including but not limited to Palestinians, Kurds, and Kashmiris – in all areas displaying international flags across the Rutgers campuses. The Office of the Chancellor will take stock of flags that are displayed across RutgersNew Brunswick campus, and ensure appropriate representation of students enrolled in academic and other spaces.
10. Provide full amnesty for all students, student groups, faculty, and staff penalized for exercising their First Amendment right to protest Rutgers University’s support for Israeli human rights violations, and voice support for faculty and staff who have been publicly targeted for exercising their academic freedom. No member of the Rutgers–New Brunswick community-including faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate students, or alumni-found to have been involved in the encampment or related activity will face retaliation from the University, including termination of employment or reduction in compensation. Retaliation shall be defined as any adverse action outside of normal business practices taken for the sole reason that the individual was involved in the encampment activities. Individual students who have been involved in any activities related to the encampment or support of the encampment, including presence in the encampment area, remain subject to the procedures of the Code of Student Conduct as communicated by the Office of Student Conduct.
The commitment to end the encampment through this agreement will be considered a favorable mitigating factor in the resolution of those matters. This agreement further recognizes that reports of bias, harassment or discrimination must continue to be investigated by the appropriate offices. This agreement does not pertain to Code of Student Conduct violations that occur or come to be known after this agreement, nor shall the review and resolution of any such individual conduct matters alter or invalidate this agreement.
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https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/nyu-prof-here-these-are-our-demands
NYU prof here. These are our demands.
- We demand amnesty for all students, faculty, and graduate workers involved in the encampment and for all those previously fired or disciplined for political speech and action
- We demand cops off our campus. This means adhering to the legally-binding 2020 Memorandum of Understanding NYU already has with the NYPD, which only allows them to enter NYU in response to a violent felony or missing student.
- We demand that NYU administration substantively negotiate with students over their demands for disclosure, divestment, and an academic boycott of Israel.
- FACULTY: (1) Cancel final exams and projects and bring your students to our teach- in programming next week instead. (2) Let your TAs/CAs know you respect their decision to engage in a grade refusal, do not enter grades except in extenuating circumstances for particular students. (3) Sign up below for action alerts and follow
- STUDENTS: Join the call for an assignment and exam refusal and request your professors to cancel exams and finals and join our teach-in programming instead. Follow @nyu.psc for updates.
- EVERYONE: Write President Linda Mills l to express that you support our demands.
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