STUDENT PETITION ON THE DCF AT UCI

Associate Professor of English, Oregon State University

Associate Professor, Department of Music, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UC Irvine

Associate Professor of History at UC Merced

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

This issue is of importance not only for a South Asia studies that preserves academic freedom to research and argue, but also for creating norms and boundaries around donor driven development.

PhD candidate, PhD program in Visual Studies, UCI

This is an essential issue for any institution that wishes to protect its reputation for academic integrity.

As a grad of UCI's Ph.D. in Philosophy, I believe it is important to support academic freedom and encourage honest, open, academic discussion of issues. Scholarship should be neither bought nor quelled with threats.

As a member of the Graduate Program Committee in History, I'm signing this in solidarity with students, and out of concern for student safety. The forms of research recommended by the DCF and its representatives on campus are not compatible with academic freedom and public university research/pedagogy.

Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, UCI

Graduate student, Department of Anthropology, University of California Irvine

This should not happen

PhD student, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine

Let's not just insert paid chairs, we need to keep the composition of our school as democratically transparent as possible. If you want these people to become chairs, subject them to a vote and allow all current staff, faculty, and students to participate in the decision-making process.

Please oppose donor involvement in academic hiring.

UCI Humanities must reconsider this move. It will prove to be a terrible mistake. It seems absurd to make such decisions without consulting the South Asianists on the faculty in the UC system.

State university of New York, Buffalo

Former graduate student in Comparative Literature and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities, UCI

This is absolutely unacceptable. It is imperative for universities to remain free from outside influence and pressures in order to create and disseminate peer-reviewed, substantiated knowledge, NOT propaganda. STOP!

Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago