Statement of principles
The Progressive Faculty Network (PFN), which brings together faculty from all colleges and schools at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, works to further the causes of economic and social justice. Using our positions as faculty, we participate in ongoing debates about issues concerning our university (for example, the increasing privatization of public institutions), our students (access, diversity, and political expression), and our community (staff salaries and working conditions). The PFN also addresses issues that extend beyond campus by articulating positions to be circulated by the press or by electronic means and by supporting work that addresses social, political, and ethical concerns. Committed to the vision of a public university that makes education available to all people and remains vitally connected to their needs, we are a clearinghouse for information, a body for collaborative work, and a collective voice. Our ultimate goal is to create a just university at which we are proud to work and a just society in which we are proud to live.
Signatories
Barbara Anderson, Cemil Aydin, Deborah Barrett, Trude Bennett (emerita), Susan Bickford, Jessica A. Boon, Karen Booth, Lydia Boyd, Kathryn Burns, Emily Burrill, Neal Caren, Pam Cooper, Renee Alexander Craft, Altha Cravey, Carole Crumley, Elyse Crystall, Allison De Marco, Dwayne Dixon, Mark Driscoll, Maria DeGuzman, Andrew Edmonds, Maxine Eichner, Arturo Escobar (emeritus), Edwin Fisher, Barbara Friedman, Beth Grabowski, Lawrence Grossberg, Minrose Gwin (emerita), Karen Hagemann, Perry Hall, Rob Hamilton, Joanne Hershfield (emerita), Glenn Hinson, Scott Kirsch, Sherryl Kleinman, Richard Langston, Jennifer Leeman, Lauren Leve, Jean Livermore, John McGowan, Victor Marshall, Megan Matchinske (emerita), Charles Mitchell, Beth Moracco, Chris Nelson, George W. Noblit, Don Nonini, Barbara Osborne, Michal Osterweil, Michael Palm, Patricia S. Parker, Pat Pukkila, Andrew Perrin, David Pier, Julius Raper, David Richardson, Michelle Rivkin-Fish, Paul T. Roberge, Michelle Robinson, Dwight Rogers, Roderick Rose, Patricia E. Sawin, Allison Schlobohm, Sarah Shields, Tanya Shields, elin O’Hara slavick, Sara H. Smith, Chad A. Stevens, Lynda Stone, Deborah Stroman, William Sturkey, Meenu Tewari, James Thompson, Tonya VanDeinse, Ariana Vigil, Eric Watts, Jonathan Weiler, Steve Wing (in memoriam), Cathy Zimmer
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