Rutgers Responds
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Title
Rutgers Responds
Subject
Rutgers University responses to the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic, beginning in March 2020
Description
This archive collects some key moments in the responses of Rutgers University, especially the Rutgers administration, to the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 through Fall 2020. This has been a period of unprecedented austerity measures from Rutgers, prioritizing the wealthy and advantaged while laying off hundreds of the most vulnerable of the Rutgers community. Rutgers has faced criticism for its decisions from many corners, including from its own faculty and students, many of whom argue that the administration's approach to the pandemic is heartless, lacking in leadership, and inappropriate for a state university that is supposed to prioritize education.
Creator
Audrey Truschke
Language
English
Collection Items
Rutgers University-Wide Email March 10, 2020
Rutgers University-Wide email on March 10, 2020, from Rutgers President Robert Barchi, that announced a slew of responses to the novel coronavirus outbreak, including the cancellation of class and, post-Spring Break, that classes would move online…
Return to Research at Rutgers Plan as of May 29, 2020
Graphic summarizing Rutgers University Return to Research Plan, written by the Research Team of the University Emergency Operations Committee and circulated to Rutgers Researchers on May 29, 2020. The plan culminated, in August 2020, with a full…
Barchi Regime Ends in Disgrace
Rutgers AAUP-AFT email on the last day of Robert Barchi's tenure at president of Rutgers University. The email outlines the Barchi administration's steps to deny faculty contract-negotiated raises, lay-off hundreds of workers, and refuse to agree to…
Reddit Thread on Rutgers program of giving iPads to new undergraduate students
On August 12, 2020, the Rutgers administration announced that they would be sending new Apple iPads Air 256GB to all incoming undergraduate freshman and transfer students. This sparked many responses, including happiness, skepticism, and anger. Many…
Rutgers to lay off all writing adjunct professors in 2021
Newspaper article about the announcement that the Rutgers-New Brunswick writing program will lay off 100% of their adjunct professors in Spring 2021 term. Rutgers-NB later pulled back from this decision, under union pressure and perhaps due to…
5 Professors Sue Rutgers, Saying It Shortchanges Women on Pay
New York Times newspaper article on how 5 female professors have followed in the footsteps of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in suing Rutgers University for equal pay for women. Rutgers is in severe breach of a contract provision by which the…
SAS Faculty Resolution on Layoffs and Cuts, Oct. 15, 2020
Faculty Resolution adopted by faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers New Brunswick opposing the elimination of faculty positions (and, by extension, deep cutting of class offerings).
Dean Peter March to Faculty: Fuck You!
Dean Peter March's Response to SAS Oct 15, 2020 Faculty Resolution. March dismissed the faculty resolution and resolved to proceed with eliminating faculty positions and reducing Rutgers course offerings in New Brunswick during the pandemic. March…
How to have School Spirit: Unions, Solidarity, and Creative Writing
A Rutgers-New Brunswick Creative Writing student responds to the Rutgers administrations' lay-offs and other anti-people ways of responding to the pandemic.