Atlanta’s Emory University began the new school year last week with the president Gregory Fenves unilaterally announcing a new policy prohibiting tents on campus, “building occupations and/or takeovers” and protests after midnight – in violation of the school’s shared governance policy, according to faculty members in positions of leadership who spoke to the Guardian.
Fenves announced the new policy last Tuesday, calling it an effort to “improve how we keep our community safe”. But the university senate’s current president and president-elect met with Fenves the following afternoon, urging him to delay implementing the new rules until a process had taken place that included the full senate holding a meeting and issuing recommendations, the Guardian has learned.
Failing to do so is a “complete violation” of university policy, which says such decisions must include input from the university senate – representing faculty, students and staff, said George B Shepherd, law professor and the body’s current president. He called what Fenves did “making rules by fiat”. Still, Emory’s president insisted on staying the course, saying the school year had already begun and that “it was an emergency”, Shepherd said.
“If he understood shared governance, he wouldn’t be doing this,” said Noëlle McAfee, chairperson of the school’s philosophy department and university senate president-elect, who also attended the meeting. “He doesn’t care about the legitimacy of his leadership.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/06/campus-protests-emory-rules-georgia
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