resolutions

November 13th, 2018

Dear President Cheng,

One month ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report indicating that societies worldwide need to make unprecedented changes to their energy usage by 2030 in order to avert the worst—meaning irreversible, and likely catastrophic—impacts of global climate change. In light of this report, and of the clear way in which climate change will shape the lives of those young people who are currently our students (and their progeny for generations… Read more

Whereas (Conditions)…

• University values of free speech and academic freedom accomplished through a rigorous exchange and challenge of ideas that leads to excellence in education, student success, educational access, diversity, integrity, and civility are incompatible with the NRA mission to protect the right to “to acquire, possess, collect, exhibit, transport, [and] carry firearms.”[1]
• The National Rifle Association (NRA) has, since 2008, called for the allowance of guns on university campuses,[2] and published a 2013 report “calling for… Read more

 February 19, 2018

Whereas (Conditions)…

• The Provost has announced that as many as 50 NTT to TT conversions will occur in the next several years.
• The administration has acknowledged that the proportion of NTT faculty members at NAU is too high and has been increasing. As a result, they have called to convert these positions to TT positions. (More than 50% of full-time NAU faculty members are NTT and Part Time.)
• NAU departments and programs have been consistently asking for more TT positions each… Read more

Senate Resolution on Diversity and Sanctuary, December, 2017

WHEREAS the recent national political campaign has exacerbated social tensions and created an atmosphere in which hate speech and other types of aggression have started to escalate, the NAU community wishes to reaffirm our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and freedom from discrimination and harassment. According to NAU’s Safe Working and Learning Environment Policy (Personnel Policy Manual, Policy No. 5.16), revised February 2016, NAU protects “the safety of all individuals at university sites… Read more

Faculty Senate: Northern Arizona University

Approved by the NAU Faculty Senate September 11, 2017

The Faculty Senate supports an environment conducive to teaching and learning that fully incorporates opportunities for all students to study and learn free from discrimination, harassment, and fear of deportation. Therefore, we strongly object to the recent move to rescind DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) which threatens the ability of nearly 38,000 Arizonans to live, work, learn, and contribute to the economy of our state. Thus,… Read more