The San Diego Faculty Association and the undersigned faculty are shocked and outraged by UC San Diego’s decision to send riot police, including off-campus law enforcement, to arrest student protesters on May 6. Monday, on the first day of Justice in Palestine week, riot police arrested dozens of student protesters and medical personnel before any evidence of negotiations with student organizers. The militarized response created an unsafe space on campus, going so far as to post snipers atop the Student Health building. We strongly condemn the recent repression of students across the country and express our unmitigated support for the rights of students to engage in protest and dissent on their campuses and beyond. We echo the sentiment of a UC-wide faculty letter that “protest is essential to our democracy and a basic human right” and that retaliation against students who protest is “antithetical to our university’s highest ideals of learning and scholarship.” The militarized response has only chilled free speech, escalated tensions, reduced safety on campus, and destroyed the trust needed for negotiations and shared governance. We invite UCSD faculty to sign this letter.  We call on our administration to respect principles of free speech and shared governance.

Specifically, we condemn the retaliatory actions already taken by UC San Diego Administration against student protesters, including arrests, suspension and threats of suspension. This followed a week of intimidating behavior, including threats and lockouts of student spaces by administration, as documented by students and media. These threats and lockdowns make our community less, not more, safe, especially for students with lived experiences of traumatic and punitive systems. We are especially troubled by the administration’s repeated turn to “safety,” including language in Chancellor Khosla’s May 5th email, to justify retaliation against students. His claim that encampment activities are “dangerous” and pose a safety concern stand in contrast to mainstream media descriptions of the campus protest.

We call on Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, AVC of Student Life Patricia Mahaffey, and VC for Student Affairs and Campus Life Alysson Satterlund, to respect the rights of free speech and dissent of the entire UC San Diego community, including and especially our students.

We demand:

• Reversal of recent suspensions. UCSD’s administration should immediately reverse their decision to suspend student protesters for exercising their right to free speech. Concerns related to health, safety, space, sanitation, and facilities can be resolved without punitive measures.
• No suspensions, no retaliation. Do not academically discipline students or student organizations who participate in protest or exercise their free speech. Do not retaliate against UC graduate students, lecturers, staff, Senate faculty, employees, or community members who participate in protest or exercise their free speech. Drop existing disciplinary cases against student demonstrators.
• Drop any charges, no further arrests and, no declarations of orderly demonstrations as unauthorized. Do not mark orderly student demonstrations as targets for vigilante or police violence. Do not arrest students, graduate students, lecturers, staff, Senate faculty, or community members for presence at or participation in campus demonstrations.

Signatories

Lilly Irani, Associate Professor, Communication

Shelley Streeby, Professor, Literature and Ethnic Studies

Michelle Lou, Asst Professor, Music

Lynne Talley, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Kenneth Loh, Professor, Structural Engineering

Celeste Pilegard, Associate Teaching Professor, Psychology

David Serlin, Professor, Communication

Jonathan Cohen, professor, philosophy

Samuel Elgin, Assistant Professor, Political Science

Jody Blanco, Professor, Literature

Christopher Perreira, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies

Daniel Mansour, Graduate Student, MAE

Ana Maria Alvarez, Associate Faculty, Theater + Dance Department

Krisztina Buti, Rady School of Management

Javier Duarte, Associate    Professor, Physics

Karen Kovaka, Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Khela Singer, Academic Advisor, TMC

Morana Alac, Professor, Communication

Tom Vogl, Associate Professor, Economics

Christo Sims, Associate Professor, Communication

Grant Kester, Professor of Art History, Visual Arts Department

Lizzy Gomez, Student Care & Accountability Specialist, Thurgood Marshall College

Abigail Andrews, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning

Andrew Devereux, Associate Professor, History

Nadia Brashier, Assistant Professor, Psychology

Joseph Hankins, Associate Professor, Anthropology

Shadi Dayeh, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yael M V Rangel, TA, LAS

Deborah Stein, Associate Professor, Theatre & Dance

Aaron J. Rosengren, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jade Power-Sotomayor, Assistant Prof, Theatre and Dance

David FitzGerald, Professor, Sociology

Jordan Rose, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts

Yuhwa Lo, Professor, ECE

Kara Mack, Lecturer, Theater and Dance

Joo Ok Kim, Associate Professor, Literature

Mysia Anderson-White, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance

Emily Clem, Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Simeon Man, Associate Professor, History

Ariana Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Literature

Luis Martin-Cabrera, Professor, Literature/Latin American Studies

Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, Assistant Professor, Psychology

Amy Sara Carroll, Associate Professor, Literature

Erin Suzuki, Associate Professor, Literature

Sarah Schneewind, Professor, History

Babak Rahimi, Associate Professor, Department of Literature

Melissa Cabrera, Student, Biochemistry

Jac Jemc, Professor, Literature

Gloria E. Chacón, Associate Professor, Literature

Rishika Mehrishi, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance

Oumelbanine Zhiri, Professor, Literature

Sara Johnson, Professor, Literature

Ricardo Dominguez, Professor and Chair, Visual Arts

Janelle Iglesias, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts

LaGina Gause, Assistant Professor, Political Science

Mariana R Wardwell          , Associate Professor, Visual Arts

Kendall Morris, UCSD Undergraduate Student, Ethnic Studies

Grace Jun, Continuing Lecturer, Theatre & Dance

Tage Rai, Assistant Professor of Management, Rady school of management

Julie Burelle, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance

Curtis Marez, Professor, Ethnic Studies

Amy Non, Full Professor, Anthropology

Gershon Shafir, Professor, Sociology

Alexandra Bighouse

Brandon Som, Associate Professor, Literature

Wael Al-Delaimy, Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health

Abigail Ferrales, Scripps

Michael Calderon-Zaks, Lecturer, Sociology

Daunte Nabi Fyall, Lecturer, Professor, Theatre & Dance

Charles Curtis, Professor, Music

Bea Laraya

Deboráh Funez, Undergraduate, Sociology-International Studies

Suzanne Brenner, Associate Professor, Anthropology

Mohan Trivedi, Distinguished Professor, Engineering

Carolyn Kurle, Professor, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences

Saiba Varma, Associate Professor, Anthropology

Tara Javidi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brett Stalbaum, Teaching Professor, Visual Arts

Wilfrido Terrazas, Associate Professor, Music

James Rauch, Professor, Economics

Page duBois, Distinguished Professor, Literature

Amro Hamdoun, Professor, SIO

Hentyle Yapp, Associate Professor, Theater and Dance

Daunte Nabi Fyall, Lecturer, Theatre & Dance

Anna Joy Springer, Associate Professor, Literature

Marcos Duran, Lecturer, Theatre and Dance

Aysan Celik, Assistant Professor, Theatre & Dance

Sutanu Sarkar, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Kazim Ali, Professor, Literature

Jin-kyung Lee, Associate professor, Literature

Gabriela Caballero, Professor, Linguistics

Brian Goldfarb, Associate Professor, Communication

Rihan Yeh, Associate Professor, Anthropology

Skai Cachapero, UCSD Alumni, Communication Department

Joseph Corrales, Lecturer, Theatre and Dance

Raymond Quilario, Student

Daniel Vitkus, Professor, Literature

Behrouz Touri, Associate Professor, ECE

William Griswold, Professor, CSE

ignacio carvajal, assistant professor, literature

Christen Sasaki, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies

Sharon Rose, Professor, Linguistics

Paul Sepuya, Associate Professor, MFA Faculty Director, Visual Arts

Casandra Lopez, Assistant Professor, Literature

Wendy Matsumura, Associate Professor, History

Katie Walkiewicz, Associate Professor, Literature

holly johnston, lecturer, Theater Arts and Dance

Rosaura Sanchez, Professor Emerita, Literature

Ameeth Vijay, Associate Professor, Literature

Stephanie Richards, Professor, Music

Rebecca Jo Plant, Professor, History

Malik Gaines, associate professor, Visual Arts

Adam Aron, Professor, Psychology

Lilly Irani, Associate Professor, Communication

Rebecca Fielding-Miller,  Associate Professor, Herbert Wertheim school of public health

Aram Grigoryan, Assistant Teaching Professor, Economics

Nancy H. Kwak, Associate Professor, History, Urban Studies and Planning

Lisa Cartwright, Professor, Visual Arts

Kelly Gates, Associate Professor, Communication

Garrison  Cottrell, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Memo Akten, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts

Cher Anabo, Lecturer, Dance

Jennifer Rose Carr, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Adam Burgasser, Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics

Megan Wesling, Associate Professor, Literature

Vanessa Stalling, Associate Professor of Directing, Theatre and Dance

Ben Cowan, Professor, History

Ivano Caponigro, Professor, Linguistics

Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Adjunct Professor, Anthropology

Nadir Weibel, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Lora Powell, Assistant Teaching Professor, T & D

Hasan Kayali, Professor, History

April Lukowski, Assistant Professor, SIO

Xuanting Hao, Assistant Professor, MAE/SIO

Brandon Seward, Associate Professor, Mathematics

Amy Cimini, Associate Professor, Music

Robert Edelman, Professor Emeritus, History

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió , Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning

Carolina Montejo, Lecturer, Muir College

Jeremy Prestholdt, Professor, History

Stanley Lo, Teaching Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

Alex Fattal, Associate Professor, Communication

Jocelyn Zepeda

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, Associate Professor, History

Isabella Restrepo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethnic Studies

Gary Fields, Professor, Department of Communication

Lorena Mostajo, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts

Daniel Widener, Director, Institute of Arts and Humanities

Géraldine Fiss, Associate Teaching Professor, Literature

Alessandro Marinoni, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Sarah Stockwell, Associate Teaching Professor          Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Stuart Geiger , Assistant Professor, Communication; Data Science

Michael, Professor, Philosophy

Alison D. Smith, Lecturer, Theatre and Dance

Vanesa Ribas, Associate Professor, Sociology

Julia Sloane, Lecturer, Anthropology, Global Health and Human Developmental Sciences

Camille F. Forbes, Associate Professor, Literature

LaTisha Hammond, Assistant Teaching Professor, Ecology, Behavior and Evolution

Claire Meaders, Assistant Teaching Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

Bright Gyamfi, Assistant Professor, History

1. Myrta Leslie Santana, Assistant Professor, Music

Clinton Tolley, Professor, Philosophy

Anasofia Vildosola, Student, Visual Arts

Sofía Moncada-López,Urban Studies and Planning

Nayana Trivedi, MD, Scripps Hospitalist

Alireza S Golsefidy, Professor, Mathematics

Karin Sandstrom, Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics

Rayan Saab, Professor, Mathematics and Data Science

Michelle Camaya, Temporary Lecturer in Dance, Theatre & Dance

Sam Museus, Professor, Ethnic Studies

Christine Nguyen, Alumni, Molecular and Cell Biology

Yi-Zhuang You, Assistant Professor, Physics

Yen Le Espiritu, Distinguished Professor, Ethnic Studies

Jorge Hirsch, Professor, Department of Physics

Cory Miller, Professor, Psychology

Francisco Garfias, Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy

Anthony Burr, Professor, Music

Elana Zilberg, Associate Professor, Communication

Dredge Kang, Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Sam Museus, Professor, Ethnic Studies

Annie Thuy Nguyen, Student, Psychology

Ross Frank, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies

Roy Perez, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies

Andrew Jolivette, Professor and Chair, Ethnic Studies

Loren Looger, Professor, Neurosciences

Craig Callender, Professor, Philosophy

Varykina Thackray, Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences

Valerie Soon, Assistant Professor, Political Science

Juan Carlos Blanco, Dance Lecturer, Theatre and Dance

Neil Gong, Assistant professor, Sociology

Claire Edington, Associate Professor, History

Graham Bishop, Lecturer, Synthesis Program

Tari Gilbert, Nurse practitioner, Medicine

Isabel Trevino, Associate Professor, Economics

Ashley  Juavinett, Associate Teaching Professor, Neurobiology

Carol Arcos H., Assistant Professor, Literature

Beatrice Pita, Lecturer, Literature, Retired, Dept. of Literature

Holly Okonkwo, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies

Kirstyn Hom, Lecturer, Synthesis, Seventh College

Max Adams, Staff/Alumni, EDI

Will Styler, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Linguistics

Jeff Gagnon, Assistant Teaching Professor, Warren College

Phoebe Bronstein, Associate Teaching Prof

Cat Gunn, Lecturer, Visual Arts

Jorge Mariscal, Professor Emeritus, Literature/TMC Dimensions of Culture

Sarah Creel, Professor, Cognitive Science

Julie Çelebi, Associate Clinical Professor, Family Medicine

Shaista Patel, Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies, Ethnic Studies

Timothy Carr, Teacher, The Preuss School UCSD

Ryan Scott, Teacher, The Preuss School

Patricia Marechal, Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen, Lecturer, Education Studies

Indira Esparza Galeana, The Preuss School UCSD Teacher, The Preuss School

Mica Pollock, Professor, Education Studies

Niall Twohig,           Lecturer, Warren Writing

Janna Dickenson, Assistant Teaching Professor, Psychology

Gabriel Bámgbóṣé, Assistant Professor, Literature

Tina Hyland, Lecturer, Sixth College

Monte Johnson, Professor, Philosophy

David Fortunato, Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy

Haleema Welji, Lecturer, Warren Writing Program

Sherice Clarke, Assistant Professor, Education Studies

Adriana Tosun, Lecturer, Sixth College Writing Program

Dayna Kalleres, Associate Professor, Literature & Program for the Study of Religion

Karen Dobkins, Professor, Psychology

Emma Uriarte, Lecturer, Warren Writing

Akos Rona-Tas, Professor, Sociology

BT Werner, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography