This comes amid a series of protests regarding the university’s relationship with the FOP. Student activists plan to hold a protest on Saturday, June 27, on the DePaul Quad. Going forward, the writing center employees plan to amplify the demands of DePaul students and employees and support other efforts to end the partnership between DePaul and the FOP. You know, I’m sure they would love to weigh in on police brutality, and on over-policing in Black communities, but they’re just simply not here.” “But George Floyd isn’t here anymore, Breonna Taylor isn’t here anymore. “When I read that I was like, you know, it sucks that this woman feels so ostracized,” she said. The email did not in any way deter the efforts of peer writing tutor Aneesah Shealey, who created the petition to end DePaul’s FOP ties. The officer wrote of her sadness at the students’ protests and expressed a desire that “ students get to know our stories and our side.” In a general response to the student and employee demands via the DePaul Newsline on June 22, the provost included an email from an unnamed Latina CPD officer who takes part in the cohort program. Unfortunately, this partnership accomplishes the opposite.” We are called to provide access to high-quality education to all.’ We agree that high-quality education should be available to all. However, in a statement to 14 East, the lawyers guild chapter stated, “Interim Provost Salma Ghanam justified this relationship, stating, ‘Our university is dedicated to providing students an education that is imbued with Vincentian values of social justice and transforming society to serve the most vulnerable. “We were in pretty high spirits that someone was going to listen to us, communicate with us and cooperate,” said peer tutor and Head Writing Center Tutor Patricia Haney.Ī post shared by NLG DePaul Chapter on at 5:54pm PDT On a local level, students from other universities in Chicago are calling for the disbandment of their own police forces.Īfter the virtual walkout, which went from May 30 to 31 and gained them a meeting with Provost Salma Ghanem, the UCWbL employees were optimistic about the meeting’s outcomes. Cities such a Minneapolis have gone as far as its city council declaring its intent to disband its police force. The demands to terminate the partnership in question are coupled with national demands to defund the police. Two weeks ago, 14 East reported on University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL) employees who staged an online walk-out in protest of the university’s partnership with the FOP through cohort programs. The call for DePaul University to end its partnership with the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) continues as the university refuses to meet the demands of some students and employees.
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