Regarding University Leadership Team Policy
February 2006
To the New York University Community: In the past week the University Leadership Team (ULT) has announced two policies, one on grading, the other on punitive consequences for graduate student union (GSOC) members. In neither case was the faculty as a whole consulted. Both of these policies encroach upon a sphere of academic decision making that traditionally and logically belongs to faculty. The threatened consequences in particular deny departmental officers the right to make and maintain teaching appointments. This continues a pattern of unilateral ULT action of which the recent Blackboard incident is only the most highly publicized example. Such policies force graduate students to choose between being fired and defending their right to representation. Such policies threaten to destroy our graduate programs.
Signed
Molly Nolan
Anna McCarthy
Greg Grandin
Dana Polan
Hartry Field
Andrew Ross
Andrew Lee
Linda Gordon
Tim Mitchell
Ana Dopico
Adam Green
George Yudice
Alan Sokal
Marion Kaplan
Steven Lukes
John Singler
Ann Pellegrini
Sylvia Law
Robert Hinton
Edwin Amenta
Norm Fruchter
Steve Hutkins
Thomas Bender
Manu Goswami
Suzanne Cusick
Judith Stacey
Bernd Huppauf
Christine Harrington
Virginia Jackson
Jeff Sammons
Marita Sturken
Don Kulick
Randy Martin
Richard Allen
Rebecca Karl
Martha Hodes
Eliot Borenstein
Herrick Chapman
Paul Mattingly
Mary Louise Pratt
Walter Johnson
Sinclair Thomson
Elaine Freedgood
Jim Uleman
Allen Hunter
Lisa Duggan
Nick Mirzoeff
John Archer
Kristin Ross
Jeff Goodwin
Diana Taylor
Ed Guerrero
Crystal Parikh
Connie Sutton
Ada Ferrer
José Muñoz
John Waters
Ned Seeman
Marilyn Young
Emily Martin
Martin Harries
Stephen Duncombe
Harry Harootunian
Moss Roberts
Arlene Davila
Joanna Waley-Cohen
Philip Harper
Nina Cornyetz
Miriam Frank
Michael Shenefelt
Diana Turk
Mark Crispin Miller
Fred Myers
Barbara Heyns
Amy Bentley
Keith Vincent
Lorie Novak
Philip Hosay
Christopher Ratte
Sally Guttmacher
Zachary Lockman
Una Chauduri
Karen Shimakawa
Bretty Gary
Nancy Regalado
Thomas Abercrombie
Rebecca Rosenfeld
Neil Brenner
Patrick Deer
Khaled Fahmy
Eduardo Capulong
Carolyn Dinshaw
Beth Shinn
Marta Peixoto
Robert Sklar
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Claudie Bernard
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Mark Tuckerman
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Christopher Colling
Ellen Willis
Jane Malmo
Tavia Nyong’o
Adam Becker
Massimo Porrati
Charles Affron
Michele Lowrie
Timothy Reiss
John Maynard
Robert McChesney
Angela Zito
Matthew McKelway
Georgina Dopico Black
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