Event: Against the Censorship and Criminalization of Academic Political Speech (Oct 23, 2020)
Against the Censorship and Criminalization of Academic Political Speech October 23, 20204pm, Zoom Last month, Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube all shut down an open academic webinar, organized by a San Francisco State University department, and featuring Palestinian liberation advocate Leila Khaled. Why are big tech platforms making decisions that violate…
Regarding Faculty Conduct with Regard to Studying Abroad in Israel: Second Follow-Up NYU-AAUP Letter to NYU President Andrew Hamilton
[view as PDF] To: President Hamilton We find it perplexing, if not disturbing, to see that the opinion of a single, non NYU individual, and a highly controversial one at that, is being used to cast aspersions on the conduct of NYU faculty in this manner. To label our correspondence…
NYU: Keep Our Campus Safe
AAUP NYU has signed on to the NYU: Keep Our Campus Safe demands, alongside several labor unions, student organizations, community groups, and individuals. An abbreviated version is below — or view the full statement. To: Andrew Hamilton, President Katherine Fleming, Provost Bill Berkley, Chairman of the Board of Trustees We are…
Concerns About NYU Administration’s Announcement for Fall 2020 Re-start
The NYU AAUP Chapter is deeply troubled by the recent announcement of NYU administrators that a decision to re-start NYU in Fall 2020 has been reached. We are concerned about the health and safety of all faculty, staff, and students. We see the administration’s decision as being driven primarily by…
Principles for a Post-COVID University
How should NYU play its role in a “just recovery” from the COVID crisis? How can we build on the experience of the crisis and from the opinions, grievances, and solidarity that circulated in NYU communities during this period? In thinking about how the university can sustain and rebuild itself,…
Statement on the Labor Action of Graduate Students
The AAUP has a long record of advocating for student, as well as faculty, rights. These include the right to exercise academic freedom in the pursuit of teaching and research and the right to fair labor conditions in the work performed by graduate students for the university. In addition, as…
Statement on Student Speech Rights
[view as PDF] The AAUP is not solely a faculty organization. It exists to protect the speech of all members of the academic community, and it must speak in defense of student voices, who are among the most vulnerable, and often the most subject to censure from university administrators. We…
Statement on Steven Thrasher’s Commencement Address
The AAUP is not solely a faculty organization. It exists to protect the speech of all members of the academic community, and it must speak in defense of student voices, who are among the most vulnerable, and often the most subject to censure from university administrators. We have chosen to…
Statement on the Department of Social and Cultural and NYU Tel Aviv
Dear President Hamilton, The Executive Committee of NYU’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors supports the autonomy of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA) in choosing not to cooperate with the study abroad program at NYU’s Tel Aviv site (NYU-TA). We strongly support the right of individual departments and schools…
Event: Academic Freedom, University Ethics, and Practices at Home and Overseas (April 9, 2019)
[view PDF flyer] Academic Freedom, University Ethics, and Practices at Home and Overseas April 9, 20191-3pmRm 108 Tisch 721 Broadway Academics today work in national contexts of deepening repression and authoritarianism, as well as rising tides of anti-democratic and nativist forces. Faculty, students and staff in the US and beyond…