Quote from: marshwiggle on May 16, 2024, 12:04:29 PM[. . .]
If you're old enough to remember, picture it being read in the voice of a K-Tel commercial.
Quote from: Langue_doc on May 16, 2024, 01:06:56 PMIn other news,QuoteColumbia Faculty Group Passes No-Confidence Resolution Against President
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Quote from: the_geneticist on May 15, 2024, 05:00:42 PMSorry for the double-post, it's getting to be crunch time for our Spring term.
A TA just told me today (it's Week 7) that a student has been arriving at lab 30-60 minutes late EVERY SINGLE WEEK. And the TA has been letting them participate. And giving them credit for their "due at the start of class prelab".
Why didn't the TA tell me the first time this happened? The official policy is that 10 minutes late = you can't participate. And late pre-lab assignments = 0 points.
And the kicker is the TA casually mentioned that the student has been copying their answers from other student worksheets all quarter.
Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 16, 2024, 01:22:51 PMLangue_doc: the Hamilton Hall arrests were the second batch of arrests at Columbia. More than 100 students were arrested a couple of days earlier.
Let's not go around rewriting events to suit the narrative.
QuoteColumbia Faculty Group Passes No-Confidence Resolution Against President
Hundreds of professors at the university weighed in on the resolution, which said the president, Nemat Shafik, had committed an "unprecedented assault on student's rights."
QuoteThe Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University passed a resolution of no confidence in the school's president, Nemat Shafik, on Thursday, saying she had violated the "fundamental requirements of academic freedom and shared governance," and engaged in an "unprecedented assault on students' rights."
The move, while largely symbolic, underscores the anger that Dr. Shafik faces on campus as she tries to recover from her divisive handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations and her public pledge to a congressional committee last month that she would discipline several faculty members who had espoused views against Israel that some have argued are antisemitic.
The no-confidence resolution was introduced by the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors, a professional faculty organization. Of the 709 professors who voted, 65 percent were in favor of the resolution and 29 percent were against it. Six percent abstained.
The resolution particularly criticized Dr. Shafik's decision to call the police into campus to clear a pro-Palestinian student encampment on April 18, even after the executive committee of the University Senate had unanimously told her not to do it. The resolution said that she had "falsely claimed" that the students were a "clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the university," arguing instead that they were peaceful.
She also violated the norms of academic freedom when she promised to fire faculty members in testimony before a congressional committee on antisemitism on April 17, the resolution said.
"The president's choices to ignore our statutes and our norms of academic freedom and shared governance, to have our students arrested and to impose a lockdown of our campus with continuing police presence, have gravely undermined our confidence in her," the resolution stated.
QuoteCalifornia university president put on leave for 'insubordination' after meeting Gaza protesters' demandsQuoteCalifornia State University placed Sonoma State campus President Mike Lee on leave Wednesday after he agreed to protesters' demands to involve them in university decision-making and pursue divestment from Israel.
Lee sent a campus-wide memo Tuesday indicating that he had made several concessions to occupants of a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. The memo was sent "without the appropriate approvals," CSU Chancellor Mildred García said in a statement, adding that she and the 23-campus CSU system's board are "actively reviewing the matter."
"For now, because of this insubordination and the consequences it has brought upon the system, President Lee has been placed on administrative leave," García said.