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Students and faculty tell trustees campus climate is fractured; speakers urge stronger protections for academic freedom and for marginalized groups
Summary
During the board's public comment period, faculty and students raised concerns about academic freedom, doxxing and harassment, antisemitism and perceived uneven responses by university offices, and urged trustees to act on divestment and climate-related investment policy.
A range of public commenters used the board's allotted time to describe a campus climate they characterized as hostile to certain students and faculty and to press trustees for changes in university policy and practice.
Faculty member David Cisneros told trustees about a tenured colleague who, he said, was targeted online after citing a United Nations report in class; Cisneros said the instructor faced reprimand rather than institutional support and urged trustees to "materially support academic freedom for all members of the university community." He asked leadership to protect faculty and students who engage in disputed but legitimate…
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