University of Maryland Faculty Oppose Any and All Boycotts of Academic Institutions
The undersigned members of the University of Maryland Faculty strongly oppose the very notion of boycotting academic institutions. The main and long cherished principle of international scientific and academic communities is that science, the arts and the humanities forge closer ties among people of diverse ethnic origin, religion, sexual preferences and political associations, in their collective pursuit of new knowledge and peaceful coexistence. The violation of this principle is incompatible with long established academic traditions, and should be strongly repudiated. In light of recent votes by two US-based academic associations, American Studies Association and Asian-American Studies Association, to boycott Israeli academic institutions, we endorse the statement issued by University President Wallace D. Loh and Provost Mary Ann Rankin: http://www.president.umd.edu/statements/campus_message2013_12_22.cfm opposing the boycott.
Look up Petition Highlights for link to a recent download of all signatories. Below are the 75 initial signatories.
Pamela Abshire
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Thomas M. Antonsen
Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computing Engineering and Physics, and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
Drew Baden
Professor and Chair, Department of Physics
Michael O. Ball
Professor and Associate Dean of the Smith School of Business
Alexander Barg
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Ben Bederson
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Special Advisor to the Provost on Technology and Educational Transformation
Shuvra Bhattacharyya
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Rama Chellappa
Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Charles W. Clark
Professor and Co-Director, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology
Thomas Cohen
Professor, Department of Physics
Dana Dachman-Soled
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Jerome Dancis
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics
Hal Daume III
Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics, and
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Christopher Davis
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Larry S. Davis
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Dmitry Dolgopyat
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Jay Robert Dorfman
Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics and Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology
Theodore L. Einstein,
Professor, Department of Physics
Howard Elman
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Anthony Ephremides
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Michael E. Fisher
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Regents Professor, University of
Maryland and Institute for Physical Science and Technology
Jeffrey Foster
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Mark Freidlin
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics
William Gasarch
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Reza Ghodssi
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Julius Goldhar
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
William Goldman
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Neil Goldsman
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Romel D. Gomez
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jordan Goodman
Professor, Department of Physics
Steve Halperin
Professor, Department of Mathematics and former Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Michael Hicks
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Timothy K. Horiuchi
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Abram Kagan
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Jonathan Katz
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Maryland Cybersecurity Center
Peter J. Keleher
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Leonid Koralov,
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Richard J. La
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
C. David Levermore,
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology
William Levine
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Maimon
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Armand Makowski
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Nuno C. Martins
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Institute for Systems Research
Isaak Mayergoyz
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
John Melngailis
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
Howard M. Milchberg
Professor, Departments of Physics and Electrical and Computing Engineering
Jack Minker
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Prakash Narayan
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Robert Newcomb
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ed Ott
Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computing Engineering and Physics, and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
K. Dennis Papadopoulos
Professor, Department of Physics
Martin Peckerar
Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Don Perlis
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Mihai Pop
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Jennifer Preece
Professor and Dean, College of Information Studies
S. Raghavan
Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business and Institute for Systems Research
James A. Reggia
Professor, Department of Computer Science, and Institute for Advanced Computer
Studies
Jonathan Rosenberg
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Shihab Shamma
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Benjamin Shapiro
Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, and Institute for Systems Research
Elaine Shi
Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Jonathan Z Simon
Associate Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biology, and Institute for Systems Research
Ben Shneiderman
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Eric Slud,
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Phillip A. Sprangle
Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computing Engineering and Physics, and
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
Aravind Srinivasan
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Ankur Srivastava
Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
V.S. Subrahmanian
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Alan Sussman
Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
AndreTits
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Amitabh Varshney
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Uzi Vishkin,
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Edo Waks
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
Donald Yeung
Associate Professor and Director of Computer Engineering Education, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Updates
January 29, 2014
The strength of this faculty response has created a clear mandate for our upcoming meeting with university administration. I am currently finalizing the formal packet of signatures to ensure our position is clearly documented in the president's office.
6 Comments
Finally some sanity! Colleges are for learning not for playing politics
Science shouldnt be political. Keep the doors open and the collaboration going.
Ridiculous to think boycotting schools makes anything better. Glad to see some common sense here.
YES. Leave the boycotts behind and let us get back to real work.
Totally agree. We need to focus on research and finding solutions together instead of punishing other academics.
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University of Maryland Faculty Oppose Any and All Boycotts of Academic Institutions
The undersigned members of the University of Maryland Faculty strongly oppose the very notion of boycotting academic institutions. The main and long cherished principle of international scientific and academic communities is that science, the arts and the humanities forge closer ties among people of diverse ethnic origin, religion, sexual preferences and political associations, in their collective pursuit of new knowledge and peaceful coexistence. The violation of this principle is incompatible with long established academic traditions, and should be strongly repudiated. In light of recent votes by two US-based academic associations, American Studies Association and Asian-American Studies Association, to boycott Israeli academic institutions, we endorse the statement issued by University President Wallace D. Loh and Provost Mary Ann Rankin: http://www.president.umd.edu/statements/campus_message2013_12_22.cfm opposing the boycott.
Look up Petition Highlights for link to a recent download of all signatories. Below are the 75 initial signatories.
Pamela Abshire
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Thomas M. Antonsen
Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computing Engineering and Physics, and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
Drew Baden
Professor and Chair, Department of Physics
Michael O. Ball
Professor and Associate Dean of the Smith School of Business
Alexander Barg
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Ben Bederson
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Special Advisor to the Provost on Technology and Educational Transformation
Shuvra Bhattacharyya
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Rama Chellappa
Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Charles W. Clark
Professor and Co-Director, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology
Thomas Cohen
Professor, Department of Physics
Dana Dachman-Soled
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Jerome Dancis
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics
Hal Daume III
Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics, and
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Christopher Davis
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Larry S. Davis
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Dmitry Dolgopyat
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Jay Robert Dorfman
Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics and Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology
Theodore L. Einstein,
Professor, Department of Physics
Howard Elman
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Anthony Ephremides
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Michael E. Fisher
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Regents Professor, University of
Maryland and Institute for Physical Science and Technology
Jeffrey Foster
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Mark Freidlin
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics
William Gasarch
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Reza Ghodssi
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Julius Goldhar
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
William Goldman
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Neil Goldsman
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Romel D. Gomez
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jordan Goodman
Professor, Department of Physics
Steve Halperin
Professor, Department of Mathematics and former Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Michael Hicks
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Timothy K. Horiuchi
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Abram Kagan
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Jonathan Katz
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Maryland Cybersecurity Center
Peter J. Keleher
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Leonid Koralov,
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Richard J. La
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
C. David Levermore,
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology
William Levine
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Maimon
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Armand Makowski
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Nuno C. Martins
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Institute for Systems Research
Isaak Mayergoyz
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
John Melngailis
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
Howard M. Milchberg
Professor, Departments of Physics and Electrical and Computing Engineering
Jack Minker
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Prakash Narayan
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Robert Newcomb
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ed Ott
Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computing Engineering and Physics, and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
K. Dennis Papadopoulos
Professor, Department of Physics
Martin Peckerar
Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Don Perlis
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Mihai Pop
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Jennifer Preece
Professor and Dean, College of Information Studies
S. Raghavan
Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business and Institute for Systems Research
James A. Reggia
Professor, Department of Computer Science, and Institute for Advanced Computer
Studies
Jonathan Rosenberg
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Shihab Shamma
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Benjamin Shapiro
Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, and Institute for Systems Research
Elaine Shi
Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Jonathan Z Simon
Associate Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biology, and Institute for Systems Research
Ben Shneiderman
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Eric Slud,
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Phillip A. Sprangle
Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computing Engineering and Physics, and
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
Aravind Srinivasan
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Ankur Srivastava
Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
V.S. Subrahmanian
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Alan Sussman
Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
AndreTits
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Amitabh Varshney
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Uzi Vishkin,
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Edo Waks
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
Donald Yeung
Associate Professor and Director of Computer Engineering Education, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Updates
January 29, 2014
The strength of this faculty response has created a clear mandate for our upcoming meeting with university administration. I am currently finalizing the formal packet of signatures to ensure our position is clearly documented in the president's office.
6 Comments
Academic freedom is a pillar of our university. Boycotts only shut down dialogue when we need it the most.
Finally some sanity! Colleges are for learning not for playing politics
Science shouldnt be political. Keep the doors open and the collaboration going.
Ridiculous to think boycotting schools makes anything better. Glad to see some common sense here.
YES. Leave the boycotts behind and let us get back to real work.
Totally agree. We need to focus on research and finding solutions together instead of punishing other academics.
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Academic freedom is a pillar of our university. Boycotts only shut down dialogue when we need it the most.