In Response: Emory Journalism Supports AAUP’s Statements
To the Emory Community:
The Emory Journalism faculty fully supports the positions laid out in today’s letter from the Emory chapter of the American Association of University Professors. We continue to have strong objections to the decisions announced by Dean Forman on Sept. 14, and the secretive and non-collaborative manner in which they were reached.
The AAUP letter accurately reflects our thinking on matters of both process and substance. We wholeheartedly endorse the AAUP’s call for a full, formal and prompt review of the decisions and the process behind them.
The Emory Journalism Faculty
Hank Klibanoff, director and James M. Cox Jr., professor of journalism
Sheila Tefft, senior lecturer
Sissel McCarthy, lecturer
David Armstrong, senior lecturer
Bravo! Other departments: Speak out! You are ALL affected by these cuts, and Emory’s compromised governance puts YOU at risk – if not with this round of cuts, then down the line. So: Issue your own statements! The Program in Journalism and the AAUP have stepped into the breach and opened space for you to speak out, too. Stand with them – and stand with your undergraduate and graduate students, who have been agitating against the cuts for over a month now. The time for solidarity and for action is now.
We too in the ILA fully support the positions laid out in today’s letter from the Emory chapter of the American Association of University Professors. With Journalism and other units we continue to have strong objections to the decisions announced by Deans Forman and Tedesco, and the secretive and non-collaborative manner in which they were reached, and we call for a full, formal and prompt review of the decisions and the process behind them.
Kevin Corrigan, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Director, on behalf of the ILA Faculty and Students
The Emory Visual Arts Department faculty supports the letter from the Emory chapter of the American Association of University Professors published in the Wheel on October 29. We too question the legitimacy of a process and outcomes lacking supporting data and documentation of process. We object to the cuts announced by Dean Forman on Sept. 14 and we endorse the AAUP’s call for a full, formal and prompt review of the decisions and the process behind them.
The Visual Arts Department Faculty
Julia Kjelgaard, Chair and Senior Lecturer
Jason Francisco, Associate Professor
Linda Armstrong, Senior Lecturer
Diane Kempler, Senior Lecturer
Kieran Moore, Lecturer