2007 faculty statements

The 2007 faculty statements are letters signed by faculty members complaining about this or that.

CU-FAC Statement of Concern

This one not written for, but which first appeared publicly in, the New York Sun. It is a letter authored by members of the "Faculty Action Committee", calling on President Bollinger to make changes to his administration's policies, particularly concerning the lack of defense of controversial professors by the university.

The Faculty Action Committee comprised, as of November 12, 2007:

Nadia Abu El-Haj Lila Abu-Lughod Qais Al-Awqati Paul Anderer Mark Anderson Gil Anidjar Zainab Bahrani Akeel Bilgrami Richard Billows Elizabeth Blackmar Partha Chatterjee Lewis Cole Jonathan Cole Elaine Combs-Schilling Susan Crane Jonathan Crary Julie Crawford Hamid Dabashi

Patricia Dailey Tom DiPrete Brent Edwards Eric Foner Aaron Fox Katherine Franke Victoria de Grazia Page Fortuna Steven Gregory William Harris Andreas Huyssen Rashid Khalidi Alice Kessler-Harris Marilyn Ivy Brian Larkin Lydia Liu Sylvère Lotringer Mahmood Mamdani

Peter Marcuse Reinhold Martin Mark Mazower Mary McLeod Brinkley Messick Rosalind Morris Keith Moxey Frances Negron-Muntaner Mae Ngai Bob O'Meally Neni Panourgia John Pemberton Richard Peña Julie Peters Pablo Piccato Sheldon Pollock Elizabeth Povinelli Wayne Proudfoot

Bruce Robbins David Rosner George Saliba James Schamus David Scott Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Mark Strand Paul Strohm Michael Taussig Ezra Tawil Kendall Thomas Nadia Urbinati Marc van de Mieroop Karen van Dyck Dorothea von Mücke Gauri Viswanathan Gwendolyn Wright

Columbia University Faculty Dissent From the CU-FAC Statement

This one was written by dissenters.

References

• post on Bwog
• Faculty Group: Bollinger Allying With Bush Administration (article) from New York Sun
• Statement from New York Sun