I've signed this pledge; you can too at [email protected]. Here is the bottom line:
UCD is one of several contested fronts in a much wider campaign against the marketization of higher education. As participants in this campaign, we pledge to suspend all professional association with UCD until Chancellor Katehi quits her post.
The argument is below the fold.
28 November 2011
Over the last couple of years, in the face of significant obstacles, students and staff from across the University of California system have taken a courageous stand in defence of public education. We the undersigned condemn the UC management's continuing use of violence to suppress this campaign. Like many thousands of people all over the world, we condemn in particular police brutality against protestors at UC Davis ten days ago, on 18 November 2011. We note that such incidents of police violence stem from the decisions of UC managers to send riot police onto their campuses to suppress peaceful protests.
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi has stated that she accepts 'full responsibility' for what happened on 18 November. We note that the Board of the UC Davis Faculty Association has issued a call for Chancellor Katehi's immediate resignation, a call seconded, following a nearly unanimous vote, by the student General Assembly. As of 28 November, more than 104,000 people have made the same demand through an online petition. The UCD Department of English has issued a collective statement calling for the Chancellor’s resignation, the majority of the faculty of the Department of Physics have published a call for her resignation in Discovery magazine, and a group of faculty in the History Department have issued a similar statement; so has the outgoing Chair of the campus Graduate Student Association [, which has voted to censure Chancellor Katehi] [updated 15:48 CST 2 Dec 2011].
We write in support of these repeated calls for Chancellor Katehi's resignation, as a preliminary but essential step in the restoration of appropriate relations between UCD managers and their students.
UCD is one of several contested fronts in a much wider campaign against the marketization of higher education. As participants in this campaign, we pledge to suspend all professional association with UCD until Chancellor Katehi quits her post.
Signed:
- Alexander Anievas, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford
- Andrew Asibong, Senior Lecturer, Department of European Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London.
- Alex Callinicos, Professor of European Studies, King's College London.
- Noam Chomsky, Linguistics, MIT.
- Dan Connell, Senior Lecturer in Communications and Political Science, Simmons College, Boston
- Laurence Cox, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
- David Cunningham, Principal Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster.
- Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
- Stéphane Douailler, Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris 8.
- Howard Feather, Sociology Department, London Metropolitan University.
- Des Freedman, Reader in Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London.
- Greg Grandin, Professor of History, NYU.
- Peter Hallward, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London.
- Ian James, Lecturer in French, University of Cambridge.
- Gordon Lafer, Associate Professor, Labor Education & Research Center, University of Oregon.
- Neil Lazarus, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick.
- Jo Littler, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University.
- Johanna Malt, Senior Lecturer in French, King's College London.
- Todd May, Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities, Clemson University.
- William McEvoy, School of English, University of Sussex.
- Peter Osborne, Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London.
- Raj Patel, Center for African Studies, UC Berkeley.
- Richard Pithouse, Rhodes University, South Africa.
- Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Roehampton University.
- John Protevi, Department of French Studies, Louisiana State University.
- Jason Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine.
- William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara.
- Sinéad Rushe, Lecturer in Acting and Movement, Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.
- Stella Sandford, Reader in Philosophy, Kingston University London.
- Bob Sutton, National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (UK), National Committee.
- Peter D. Thomas, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and History, Brunel University London.
- Alberto Toscano, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London.
- Jeffery R. Webber, Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London.
- Slavoj Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana.
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