[CASA] NYU Middle Eastern Studies's statement

[Hugo Pezzini]

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Hugo Pezzini
Ph.D. candidate
Instructor of Record
New York University
Comparative Literature Department
mono at hugopezzini.com
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From: Haytham A Bahoora <hab224 at nyu.edu>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:46:59 -0500
To: "Comparative Literature Students" <complitters at forums.nyu.edu>
Subject: MEIS statement



At their meeting on Thursday, December 1, 2005, the faculty of the 
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies unanimously adopted 
the following statement of department policy:


DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
December 1, 2005


· We reaffirm the statement of department policy that we adopted some 
weeks ago. 

It reads as follows:

?The faculty of the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 
feels that it must respect the right of all faculty members, students 
and staff to respond to a strike or other job action in a manner that 
accords with each individual's conscience. The Department therefore 
strongly opposes any form of intimidation, coercion, or reprisal 
against faculty, students or staff for whatever course of action they 
may in good faith choose to take in response to a strike. Department 
administrators, including the chair, DGS and DUGS, will not report to 
the administration on what our faculty, students or staff do in the 
event of a strike, and no student will be rewarded or penalized with 
regard to grades, credits, academic funding, letters of 
recommendation, future teaching opportunities or eligibility for 
academic awards for the course of action they choose in the event of a 
strike."


·We regard the administration?s decision to deprive any striking TA, 
GA or 
preceptor who does not return to work next week of his or her stipend 
for the spring semester and of his or her eligibility to teach as 
unduly harsh, arbitrary and an egregious violation of established 
disciplinary and evaluation procedures as well as of departmental 
autonomy. That decision, and the provost?s directive of November 28th, 
also place the department's faculty (and especially its officers) in 
an untenable position.


· We therefore again instruct department officers (the chair, DGS and 
DUGS) and 
staff not to report to the administration on the decisions or actions 
of our graduate students regarding the strike, or to collaborate in 
any way in imposing or enforcing any sanctions on our students, 
including the withdrawal of their teaching eligibility or their 
stipends.


·In keeping with established university, FAS and GSAS procedures, we 
continue 
to regard all decisions about which of our graduate students in good 
standing are assigned to teach which courses to be solely within the 
purview of the department.


· We insist on the department?s right to cancel any planned spring 
courses, or to 
reduce or cap their enrollments, if the administration declares any of 
the TAs or preceptors which the department has assigned to teach them 
ineligible to teach.


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