The Faculty Senate voted in favor of a resolution demanding more student, faculty and staff representatives be added to the Naming Principles Commission.
Faculty submitted the motion for no confidence after a full faculty body meeting at 3 p.m. today.
“The cultural meaning of building names and monuments are really only to honor,” Nicole Sackley said. “Nobody puts up a statue to explain complicated history.”
Members of the University Faculty Senate released a statement that expressed disappointment about a meeting with members of the Board of Trustees.
“I didn’t have a fever; I didn’t really have a headache; I didn’t really have a stomach ache,” she said. “It was just a general achy feeling.”
Once the motions to disaffiliate and preemptively approve SOBAC recommendations were passed, Polcari resigned from his position as RCSGA president and swore in Lawrence.
The Faculty Senate voted to offer a credit/no credit option for students and adopted a statement calling for the renaming of Mitchell-Freeman and Ryland halls.
President Crutcher describes the Statement on Free Expression as a “living document” that can change.
A Black Student Coalition released a statement on Black student welfare calling for UR to make a plan to meet the demands by April 1.
Professor of political science Monti Datta explained that Hallock will be entering a community that has begun to reckon with injustice.
The Faculty Senate decided to designate a light workload week, when professors are supposed to assign less work than usual, Williamson said.
The University Faculty Senate on Jan. 22 decided not to adopt a proposal that would allow students to take one class as a credit with a D or no credit.
The minimum wage is set to increase four more times in the following five years, to $11 in 2022, $12 in 2023, $13.50 in 2025 and $15 in 2026.
Sophomore Hoor Ul Ain had trouble attending WCGA and first-year orientation leadership online meetings on Wednesday, she said.
This is a developing story and will continue to be updated. Additional coverage of policy changes with community member input to come.
The Arts and Sciences Academic Council voted in support of a motion that will move the proposal for an Africana studies program forward.
Stephanie Spera, professor of geography, and David Salisbury, chair of the geography department, are co-principal investigators for the project.
“It’s very difficult to write someone up when you don’t know what the policy is or how it’s going to be enforced,” Walker said.
In this episode, we will be discussing The Collegian's role in campus culture by examining the history of The Collegian's editorial process.
Guy-Uriel Charles spoke about the relationship between the Constitution and the pursuit of racial justice in his lecture.
