UC Davis Official English Department Policy: “Chancellor Katehi’s Immediate Resignation”

Friday’s pepper spraying of students by police at the University of California, Davis, has drawn not only outrage across America, but calls for the immediate resignation of UC Davis’ Chancellor Linda Katehi. The first public call for the Chancellor’s resignation came from non-tenured Assistant Professor Nathan Brown, who wrote a strongly-worded open letter to the Chancellor.

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Now, it seems the English Department’s official policy at UC Davis is “Chancellor Katehi’s immediate resignation.” Here’s the statement in full, which also calls for the end of University of California Police Department. You can also read the statement on the front of the Department’s website:

The faculty of the UC Davis English Department supports the Board of the Davis Faculty Association in calling for Chancellor Katehi’s immediate resignation and for “a policy that will end the practice of forcibly removing non-violent student, faculty, staff, and community protesters by police on the UC Davis campus.” Further, given the demonstrable threat posed by the University of California Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to the safety of students, faculty, staff, and community members on our campus and others in the UC system, we propose that such a policy include the disbanding of the UCPD and the institution of an ordinance against the presence of police forces on the UC Davis campus, unless their presence is specifically requested by a member of the campus community. This will initiate a genuinely collective effort to determine how best to ensure the health and safety of the campus community at UC Davis.

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