Open Letter to the University of California, Irvine

A politically sponsored academic program or position - let alone an entire department - goes against the UC's mission of public education, academic freedom and all sorts of things.

Asso. Prof. in English, Stella Maris College, Chennai & Visiting Prof., CSLG, JNU

Religion, Boston University

Department of History, University of Hyderabad, India.

Assistant Professor of English, Ashland University

Research Fellow Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Göttingen

Associate Professor, University of Maryland

SOAS, University of London

This flies in the face of all that academia represents. If your university agrees to these donors prerequisites a terrible precedent will be set which will damage academic credibility. It will cause much harm to the pursuit of peace in a region which has suffered for centuries from interference by colonial forces. Please do not allow these discriminatory proposals to poison the well of knowledge to which all academics seek to contribute without fear or favour.

Concerned Citizen

Doctoral Scholar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

When justice wifi be justified in India?

I agree with the forum

Head of Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster

University of Heidelberg, Germany

Fellow, Max Planck Institute

PhD candidate, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine

I hope many will see the need to spread tolerance and sign this like I have

Graduate Student, English, UC Irvine

Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, Washington State University.