{"id":458,"date":"2024-05-23T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2024-07-04T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:54:14","slug":"osc-to-improve-the-quality-of-assignments-imposed-on-students-arrested-in-gould-plaza-after-faculty-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/osc-to-improve-the-quality-of-assignments-imposed-on-students-arrested-in-gould-plaza-after-faculty-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"OSC to \u2018improve the quality\u2019 of assignments imposed on students arrested in Gould Plaza after faculty complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NYU said the Office of Student Conduct will begin looking at ways \u201cto improve the quality\u201d of reflection papers imposed on students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza later in the fall, after hundreds of faculty complained about the practice in <\/span>a letter<\/span><\/a> to university leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the May 15 letter, over 350 faculty members called on President Linda Mills, interim provost Georgina Dopico and director of student conduct Mathew Shepard to \u201cimmediately stop using these materials,\u201d calling them \u201ca mockery of our vocation\u201d as teachers and \u201can insult to the intelligence of our students.\u201d If students don\u2019t complete the assignments by May 29 \u2014 which ask that they describe the \u201cincident\u201d for which they were called into the OSC and \u201clearn about and understand\u201d their values and actions \u2014 they will receive a censure on their transcript, or a \u201cformal reprimand for violation of university policy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

NYU spokesperson John Beckman said the assignments are a common practice in higher education institutions. He said the point of the exercises is \u201cto reflect upon\u201d how a student\u2019s actions might impact other members of the NYU community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, that is not to say that the specific assignments couldn\u2019t be improved,\u201d Beckman wrote. \u201cIn fact, in conjunction with NYU faculty experts whom we hope to convene, the staff in the Office of Student Conduct will begin taking a look at what might be done to improve the quality of the prompts for the reflection papers as well as the other educational assignments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter, authored by NYU Law professor Liam Murphy, claimed the writing exercises contradict the university\u2019s \u201cethical and intellectual standards\u201d and are \u201cmorally odious and completely out of place.\u201d Murphy sent the letter to Mills, Dopico and Shepard last Thursday, and received an email from Mills and Dopico the following evening saying they would reevaluate the exercises in the fall. The letter has since garnered hundreds of signatures from faculty across NYU\u2019s schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was pleased that the response came from many different kinds of people \u2014 very senior faculty, who nobody thought would be the first to go manning the picket lines, to very junior faculty, tenured people, clinical people,\u201d Murphy said in an interview with WSN. \u201cAll sectors of the faculty community seem to have responded.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Murphy\u2019s letter comes after Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine <\/span>sent out a press release criticizing the assignments<\/span><\/a> last Monday. The statement also challenged NYU\u2019s use of Advocate, a higher education software created by \u201cbehavioral intervention management\u201d company Symplicity, citing that the company had pleaded guilty to criminal hacking charges in 2014. Beckman said that these associations were \u201cdeceptive propaganda\u201d and that only OSC staff determine specific sanctions for students. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>NYU allegedly began disciplinary hearings for students earlier this month and <\/span>requested that a Manhattan court drop criminal charges for all protesters<\/span><\/a> involved. Since the first encampment at Gould Plaza, on-campus groups including FSJP and the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition have continued to demand that NYU pardon students facing disciplinary action for their involvement in pro-Palestinian protests, as well as divest from companies with ties to Israel, shut down its study away site in Tel Aviv and remove police from campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Dharma Niles at dniles@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

This story OSC to \u2018improve the quality\u2019 of assignments imposed on students arrested in Gould Plaza after faculty complaints<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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