In response to the growing concern over transparency at our university, particularly in relation to the nature of NYU’s investments and labor practices in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, the Faculty of Arts & Sciences is holding a forum on Wednesday, April 8, 2015.
Organized by NYU Out of Occupied Palestine, NYU Divest, and the Coalition for Fair Labor at NYU, this forum will build on efforts to increase transparency and include faculty, students and staff in university governance.
From the forum, we hope to achieve:
1. Awareness. We believe that NYU faculty have a responsibility to build awareness on issues of community concern. This forum will facilitate discussion on NYU’s exploitative labor practices and irresponsible investments in corporation that are culpable for ecological destruction and potential war crimes against Palestinians;
2. Transparency. We call on NYU to reveal its confidential code of conduct on labor on satellite campuses, disclose its investments to the university community, and form a committee of students and faculty authorized to monitor its financial holdings;
3. A human rights screen. The appointed monitoring committee will ensure that current and future investments are made responsibly and meet human rights standards, and begin a divestment process to dissociate from companies that violate this standard, including the top 200 fossil fuel companies as well as companies that profit from the illegal occupation of Palestine.
Organized by NYU Out of Occupied Palestine, NYU Divest, and the Coalition for Fair Labor at NYU, this forum will build on efforts to increase transparency and include faculty, students and staff in university governance.
From the forum, we hope to achieve:
1. Awareness. We believe that NYU faculty have a responsibility to build awareness on issues of community concern. This forum will facilitate discussion on NYU’s exploitative labor practices and irresponsible investments in corporation that are culpable for ecological destruction and potential war crimes against Palestinians;
2. Transparency. We call on NYU to reveal its confidential code of conduct on labor on satellite campuses, disclose its investments to the university community, and form a committee of students and faculty authorized to monitor its financial holdings;
3. A human rights screen. The appointed monitoring committee will ensure that current and future investments are made responsibly and meet human rights standards, and begin a divestment process to dissociate from companies that violate this standard, including the top 200 fossil fuel companies as well as companies that profit from the illegal occupation of Palestine.
