I am a professor and as of today, I quit my position as Artist-in-Residence #ColumbiaUniversity which I have served for the past two years. I am an Associate Professor at Hunter College and in support of the courageous student protestors at Columbia, I cannot in good conscience..

be affiliated with an institution that arrests, intimidates, endangers, and censors its students. Until the students are reinstated, apologised to, and have their records expunged, I will #boycott giving lectures Columbia University or Barnard. I commit to donating the money I was awarded

for the position to charitable causes in Gaza as is the request of the students.

Both the silence and silencing of comfortable tenured and tenure-track faculty has been appalling, though not surprising. It is loud. But the student protestors are louder and being heard by..

the world 🌏right now. Lip service is great. What are tenured faculty willing to give up? For freedom fr Gaza to the West Bank to Congo to Haiti, this blueprint of organized dissent matters.

While I’ve personally been treated well and been generously supported by staff in my…

unit at the climate school, I am all too aware that universities depend on the 4-year cycle of graduation to quell dissent. Finals and the relentless schedule are used to suppress any sort of gathering.

Across the country I’ve learned about college dorms designed after 1968 specifically to preclude the possibility of students congregating for protests.

Those Columbia lawns are symbolic and pristine. They ought to be trampled and used for taking a stand.