Teach In: The Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights

How Should We Respond Using a Justice Lens?

A part of the Coalition for Action in Higher Education and AAUP’s National Day of Action.

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• Universities are in deep crisis
• Biomedical research grants are being cancelled abruptly endangering lives
• The principles of “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion” are being abandoned under threat of financial penalties, with words banned from websites, and offices and programs closed
• International students with permanent resident status are being swept up by masked ICE agents and threatened with deportation for exercising their First Amendment rights in solidarity with the people of Gaza
• The Smithsonian museums are being taken over and whitewashed to conform to “correct ideology” that does not mention “divisive” issues like race
• The Department of Education has been eviscerated jeopardizing student services and financial aid

You're invited to join us for a panel of speakers who will explore the current landscape in higher education, including:

Katherine Franke, Columbia University Law Professor (retired) and activist, a leading scholar on law, sexuality, race, and religion drawing from feminist, queer, and critical race theory

Veena Dubal, General Counsel, AAUP; Professor of Law at University of California Irvine (will join remotely)

Juan Gonzalez, award winning journalist, Democracy Now!

Janet Lin, Professor of Emergency Medicine, UIC College of Medicine; Affiliate Professor of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Linda Rae Murray, M.D., world-renowned public health champion and previously served as chief medical officer for the Cook County Department of Public Health, and president of the American Public Health Association. She is an UIC alum and teaches in the School of Public Health

Naomi Paik, Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at UIC, a scholar of immigration, carcerality and justice, and a member UIC Sanctuary Campus for All and Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine UIC

Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Associate Professor of History at UIC who works on racial and economic inequality and education policy

Followed by discussion and Q&A.

April 17^th
3:30 – 5:30 PM
UIC Forum, rooms DEF
725 W Roosevelt Road
**ASL interpretation and CART services will be provided. Wheelchair accessible entrances and restrooms. For additional accessibility questions, please contact SjiChicago@gmail.com

Hosted by the UIC Social Justice Initiative; Department of Black Studies; Center for Urban Economic Development; Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change; Collaboratory for Health Justice; Criminology, Law, & Justice; Gender and Women’s Studies; Global Asian Studies; Global Middle East Studies Collective; Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy; Institute for the Humanities; Jane Addams Hull House-Museum; Latin American and Latino Studies.

A part of national actions: www.dayofactionforhighered.org