The UT Austin chapter of the American Association of University Professors is circulating a letter to gauge interest in a possible vote to censure President Hartzell. Faculty said they lost faith in him after he called in law enforcement to shut down a peaceful pro-Palestinian protest.
Karma Chávez, a Mexican American and Latina/o studies professor at the UT Austin, speaks during a pro-Palestinian walkout and protest Thursday.
“We think those two things are connected. Neither was done with faculty input and we are a campus that has principles of shared governance where important decisions should be made together with faculty,” UT Austin AAUP Chapter President Pauline Strong said. “These decisions both came as surprises." “I believe that decision was an overreaction to what they knew about the student protests,” she said. “I believe the presence of the police escalated the situation from the very beginning, and I think it created a very dangerous situation for the protesters, as well as for staff and faculty, who were on campus that day.”
Hartzell has publicly defended the university’s response to Wednesday’s protest stating in an email to the campus community that the group organizing the protest planned to violate institutional rules. “We would hope that the letter itself, whether or not it leads to a vote, is taken seriously by Hartzell and his administration as an expression of deep faculty concern about the actions he’s taken this month,” she said.
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