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MLA Resolution Concerning Yale
``` Date: Wed Jan 3 11:10:22 PST 1996 From: nagps@netcom.com To: nagps-official@nagps.varesearch.com Subject: MLA Resolution Concerning Yale
Dear NAGPS Members and Friends:
NAGPS received a copy of the Modern Language Association resolution regarding the activities of teaching assistants at Yale University.
The source of the text is listed at the bottom of the message.
Kevin Boyer NAGPS Executive Director NAGPS@NETCOM.COM
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Whereas the Modern Language Association, as an organization of scholars and teachers of language and literature, dedicated to the maintenance of professional standards and intellectual freedom, registers its deep concern regarding the academic reprisals that Yale University is taking against graduate student teachers participating in union activity; and
Whereas the Modern Language Association further recognizes that, whatever opinion its individual members may have about the advisability of union organizing among graduate students members of the teaching staff at Yale, or the advisability of the current grade strike at Yale, there is no question that participation in such activities without fear of retribution designed to injure one's academic career is a fundamental aspect of academic freedom; and
Whereas the Modern Language Association recognizes that the recent actions of the Yale administration which inappropriately encourage the use of union activity as a criterion for academic evaluation and which seek to punish union activity through academic reprisals, including witheld letters of recommendation, disciplinary letters, academic probation, firing of teachers, denial of promised teaching jobs, or expulsion, constitute a significant violation of academic freedom; and
Whereas the Modern Language Association further recognizes that the independence of faculty must be protected, especially in situations of conflict such as that which has arisen between graduate students and administrators at Yale; and calls on the Yale administration to respect the independence of faculty in the current strike and to refrain from any attempts to enroll faculty members to serve as replacement workers for striking graduate student teaching staff or to enforce administrative discipline on strike participants; and
Whereas it is incumbent on university administrations to guarantee that all members of a campus community are free to pursue political activities, including union activities, as an exercise of free speech without fear of academic reprisal, and the Modern Language Association is concerned that Yale President Richard Levin has refused requests from over 300 faculty members (at Yale and elsewhere) to establish a policy prohibiting the use of union activity as a criterion in academic evaluation;
Be it resolved that the Modern Language Association hereby records its censure of the Yale University Administration for permitting the use of union activity as a criterion for academic evaluations, and for failing to protect the right of Yale's graduate teaching staff to participate in union activities, including job actions, without fear of reprisals against their academic careers.
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Victoria Smallman, Department of English, McMaster University e-mail: g9126311@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
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