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. Most of the members of the committee are in humanities fields, particularly History, Anthropology, or languages and literatures.

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. They appear to be mostly Medical School professors, but also include some from the Business School, Mathematics Department, Computer Science Department and Anthropology Department. As of 14 Nov 2007, faculty who signed this include:

Efrat Aharonovich Kenneth Altman Elizabeth Anisfeld Paul S. Appelbaum Marc S. Arkovitz Jeffrey A. Ascherman Mitchell C. Benson Mitchell F. Berman Bernard Berofsky Nehama R. Bersohn Joan Birman Adam Heath Cannon Charles Calomiris Mark Cane Myron L. Cohen Jonathan David

Len Druyan Barry A. Farber Awi Federgruen Scott A. Fink Philip Genty Michael D. Gershon Michael E. Goldberg Robert R. Goodman Victor R. Grann Linda Granowetter Jonathan L. Gross Jeffrey Helzner Ralph Holloway Barry Honig Allen I. Hyman Judith S. Jacobson

Sandra Kahn Eric R. Kandel Ran Kivetz Oscar Lebwohl Jonathan Levav Moshe Levison Nahum Melumad Elizabeth Midlarsky Abraham Monk Alfred I. Neugut Stephanie G. Neuman Walter Neumann Peter Ozsvath Evan Picoult Ruth Raphaeli-Slivko Irina Reyfman

Jay Rothschild Samuel Schacher Alan F. Segal Alan A. Seplowitz Neil S. Shachter Howard Shuman Ethel S. Siris Mervyn W. Susser Robert N. Taub Olivier Toubia Warren D. Widmann Eric D. Zarahn Assaf Zeevi Thomas D. Zweifel

References

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