Rightly so:
Earlier today (Monday, September 22), the executive officers representing fourteen UIUC departments having previously voted no confidence in members of the university's administration issued the following joint statement:
In the wake of the Board of Trustees' failure to reinstate Steven Salaita on September 11, 2014, we reaffirm our votes of no confidence in the Chancellor, the President, and the Board of Trustees. We remain ever more committed to academic freedom, to due process, and to recognition of the expertise of faculty as the foundation of the university. We call on the Senate to allow a full and fair investigation of the case.
A copy of the statement signed by all fourteen executive officers was delivered to the chair of the Senate Executive Committee at today's meeting of the Senate.
The signatories were:
Ronald Bailey, Head, Department of African American Studies
Antoinette Burton, Interim Head, Department of Sociology
Stephanie Foote, Chair, Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Jonathan Xavier Inda, Chair, Department of Latina/Latino Studies
Lilya Kaganovsky, Director, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Marcus Keller, Head, Department of French and Italian
Diane Koenker, Chair, Department of History
Andrew Orta, Head, Department of Anthropology
David Price, Head, Department of Religion
Junaid Rana, Acting Head, Asian American Studies
Michael Rothberg, Head, Department of English
Kirk Sanders, Chair, Department of Philosophy
Robert Warrior, Director, American Indian Studies
Gary Xu, Head, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
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