Category Archives: Public Statements

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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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[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…

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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…

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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…

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Dear Provost Fleming: The NYU chapter of the AAUP has recently learned of four tenure casesthat were denied by the Dean or Provost’s office after unanimousdepartmental and/or School support. The awarding of tenure is a decisionthat is subject to the principles of shared governance; thus it is worrisomethat so many recent recommendations by faculty have…

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[view as PDF] To: President Andrew Hamilton  In the days since we sent you the NYU-AAUP letter, the national AAUP has  weighed in, condemning the UM administration’s decision to punish Professor  Cheney-Lippold without any semblance of the due process that is required, under  AAUP policy, in cases concerning the disciplining…

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[view as PDF] To: President Andrew Hamilton  We, the officers of NYU’s AAUP chapter, are writing to comment on the news that  University of Michigan Professor John Cheney-Lippold has been censured and  punished by administrators for declining to write a letter of recommendation for a  student applying to a Study…

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