We want to make clear to the administration that disciplining employees for the exercise of our constitutional rights will not be tolerated.
Petition to ifire rutgers president barchi free#
Faculty members, as private citizens, enjoy the same freedoms of speech and expression as any private citizen and shall be free from institutional discipline in the exercise of these rights." All members of our community enjoy the rights of free expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. Our University policy on speech is clear. “Both academic freedom and our First Amendment rights are at the core of what we do. President Barchi’s own Statement on Free Speech and Academic Freedom says: Once again, the administration has abandoned its articulated principles in the face of some real or imagined confrontation. The attempt to interfere with and chill his First Amendment rights sets a dangerous precedent and is an unacceptable intrusion into the private lives of University employees. The administration’s misguided decision to silence Professor Livingston by disciplining him for the expression of opinions unrelated to his job at Rutgers violates his fundamental constitutional rights. That is what Professor James Livingston did when he posted comments on his personal Facebook page objecting to the gentrification of his neighborhood in Harlem. Jammula's removal from her classes, that she be reinstated to her previously scheduled classes, and accountability for those responsible for her removal.We, the undersigned, join the Rutgers AAUP-AFT in standing resolutely in support of faculty, and all University employees, who exercise their right of free speech. The student body demands transparency regarding Dr. This whole affair is a smokescreen to remove a talented, female, and much-loved professor. Her revolutionary ideas threaten those who revel in the premise that only elite students can do Physics. Zhen Wu show their bias against a young FEMALE instructor who has obviously been more successful at teaching students than they have been. The rude and condescending treatment by Dr. Jammula is effective, and uses research-based teaching strategies and is one of the highest rated instructors at the Newark Campus.
Zhen Wu said he would teach these upcoming classes instead.ĭr. Zhen Wu consulted with no one in the department except Dr. She was neither consulted nor told she was removed. Jammula.ĭespite having zero evidence of malintent, the head of the physics department, Dr Zhen Wu, removed Dr. He filed charges and accused the students of "fabricated research on an assignment.which was 100% of their grade"! When these falsified charges were dismissed, he went after Dr. Jammula, but also fail the students who made the flyer. Martin Schaden (who is on sabbatical) saw the flyer, harrassed Dr.Jammula, and decided this was grounds to not only remove Dr. Jammula caught the error, informed the organizers, and corrected it in her introduction. Her "crime"? At a talk on diversity and equality in physics education, two students making a flyer for the event mistakenly misprinted her title. Jammula, a talented and much loved physics instructor at Rutgers Newark, is being harrassed, bullied, and removed from future classes.
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