Stanford University has failed to address issues of

faculty/administrative diversity and curricular, extracurricular,

and residential life equity. The

Who’s Teaching Us Coalition

is calling on the university to implement our demands and thereby

commit itself to the affirmation of marginalized communities. A

summary of the demands can be found below; the

complete demands

are attached to this email.

Please join us this

Friday, April 1

at

12:30pm

in

Black House

to learn more about the campaign and how to get involved. Our work

is strong, our coalition is growing, and we welcome your

presence!

In Solidarity,

Jonathan Fisk

on behalf of the Who’s Teaching Us Coalition

______

Demands:

Faculty/Administrative and Student Diversity

WE DEMAND the hiring of at least 10 additional tenure-track ethnic

studies professors and a commitment to the retention of these

professors, prioritizing underrepresented groups within the ethnic

studies programs. In addition, every department affiliated with

both Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and African and

African American Studies must fill at least one faculty vacancy

using their Faculty Development Initiative funds by June

2017.

WE DEMAND the development of a recurring and comprehensive identity

and cultural humility training to be instated as a requirement for

all faculty in all departments by September 21st, 2017.

WE DEMAND that the next appointment to the positions of president

and provost of the University break both the legacy of white

leadership and cisgender male leadership. The appointment process

must be a transparent collaboration with current students

representative of campus demographics. The appointees must have

demonstrated commitments to diversifying academia and addressing

systemic inequality.

WE DEMAND that the Acts of Intolerance protocol be reworked to

provide a dedicated, responsive platform for reporting and tracking

microaggressions from faculty. In order for the reporting process

to be successful, it must be transparent, widely publicized, and

include the option for confidentiality. Departments must use these

reports in faculty evaluations.

WE DEMAND all departments publicly release disaggregated tenure

data, in particular separating international professors from

American professors, differentiating ethnicities of professors

within the Asian American Pacific Islander diaspora, and including

data on gender non-conforming faculty and staff.

WE DEMAND the fulfilment of the Stanford BSU demand of 1968 for at

minimum “proportional representation of minority group members” in

both the undergraduate and graduate student bodies.

WE DEMAND that the departments outside of the School of Humanities

and Sciences double their quantities of faculty of color,

specifically hiring Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Southeast Asian

faculty.

University Curriculum

WE DEMAND the departmentalization of the Comparative Studies in

Race Ethnicity, African and African American Studies, and Feminist,

Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs; a guarantee of security for

their funding; and the expansion of all of their

programs.

WE DEMAND the expansion of the Asian American Studies program to

equally prioritize the voices of South Asian, Southeast Asian, and

Pacific Islander students and issues, as well as the

Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies program to equally prioritize the voices

of diasporic Latinx students and issues.

WE DEMAND that the Engaging Diversity requirement be reformed so

that it only includes classes that address diversity as it relates

to issues of power, privilege, and systems of oppression and so

that students will be required to take two Engaging Diversity

classes instead of one. One of these classes must be on diversity

in the major.

WE DEMAND that humanities majors require double the current number

of required classes on works by people of color and non-Western

subject matter.

WE DEMAND the formation of a working group to reevaluate and reform

Structured Liberal Education (SLE) to oversee student selection

process, hiring and faculty retention, outreach, curriculum, and

pedagogy. The members of this committee will be determined by WTU

in dialogue with the SLE administration, and their time should be

compensated by the University. During this process, SLE will not

count towards the Engaging Diversity requirement.

WE DEMAND alternative Integrated Learning Environments (ILE)

humanities and writing programs be developed that center social

justice and anti-oppression scholarship, with an emphasis on works

by people of color and PoC frameworks. We demand that these

programs receive the same level of funding as SLE.

Residential Life

WE DEMAND that all Residential Education staff be required to

complete comprehensive identity and cultural humility

training.

WE DEMAND that pay for Ethnic Theme Associates be increased to

match that of Residential Assistants by the start of the 2016-2017

academic year. This will recognize the importance of their work in

planning programming and facilitating conversations around issues

of identity, as well as the other work they do -- far beyond their

job description -- to ensure the well-being of communities in

ethnic theme dorms.

WE DEMAND a cooperative theme house for sophomore, junior, and

senior students of color to bring together communities of color on

campus, and to serve their social, cultural, and educational

needs.

Extracurricular Diversity Programs

WE DEMAND that additional staff be hired to each community centers

as needed (need to be determined by each center) and that community

center funding be doubled, as peer institutions like Yale have

done, by June 2017; as a benchmark on the way to this figure,

funding should be restored to pre-2008 budget cut levels, adjusted

for inflation, by June 2016.

WE DEMAND that the Haas Center for Public Service diversify its

staff and reform its partnerships with off-campus communities of

color so that all programs are initiated by and prioritize these

communities, not Stanford.

WE DEMAND that Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) open at least 5

additional programs in non-Western countries within 5 years, and

commit to continue diversifying its study abroad options to reach

regional equity in programs offered. All programs should include

community-engaged learning components, and offer comprehensive

identity and cultural humility training. All programs should also

provide adequate support and mental health resources that are

sensitive to students' experiences of race, gender, sexuality,

class, and religion while abroad.

Divestment From Violence Against Black & Brown

People

WE DEMAND that the University divest from all prisons, including

private prisons, as the University of California and Columbia

University have done, and invest the newly-released funds in Black,

Brown, Indigenous, poor, and undocumented communities, which have

been unjustly and disproportionately targeted for

incarceration.

WE DEMAND that the University divest from Wells Fargo &

Company—a bank that has perpetuated prison privatization and the

disproportionate and unjust incarceration of Black, Brown,

Indigenous, poor, and undocumented people—and invest the

newly-released funds in impacted communities.

Timeline

WE DEMAND that the implementing bodies conduct transparent and

honest monthly meetings with WTU and Students of Color Coalition

(SOCC) to hold the Administration accountable to the fulfillment of

each and every demand.

WE DEMAND that University employees who elect to assist WTU and

similar activist student groups face no repercussions from the

University for doing so.

WE DEMAND adequate staffing and funding to achieve all of the

aforementioned demands.

WE DEMAND that the Administration immediately accept the

aforementioned demands and that a statement of acceptance, a

timetable of implementation for each demand, and an administrative

point person for each demand, be presented to WTU at 3 PM on Friday

April 8th, in open forum at the Native American Cultural