Thanks everyone for the signatures and broad support this initiative is generating!

We collected 155 faculty & lecturer signatures for the official letter that was sent to the

administration on May 10.

All MIT community members are now welcome to sign this letter and we will continue to update the signatories here.

Questions? dueprocessnowmit@gmail.com

Faculty Letter Regarding Due Process

To President Kornbluth, Chancellor Nobles, Provost Barnhart, Chair of Faculty Fuller, and Professor Schapiro,

We the undersigned faculty and staff are issuing an urgent call for due process for our students facing hastily enacted interim suspensions.

While we understand there are complex, fast-moving situations at play, the current decision to issue a set of “interim suspensions” without any meaningful due process involving a full Committee on Discipline hearing goes against not only the spirit of MIT, but the very foundations of U.S. legal frameworks which always assume that the accused have a right to a full hearing of evidence as well as advisement in addressing the accusation. While warnings were issued, a full disciplinary process before punishment is vital. While the disciplinary action may end up being warranted, right now a commitment to due process has been completely bypassed.​​​​​​​

This decision is putting students in immediate and profound material jeopardy affecting their residency status, their access to housing and food, their ability to continue with their education and, in some cases, even graduate. In practice, an interim suspension is actually acting as a full one, particularly for international students.

By Wednesday evening, May 8, more than twenty students have been identified as having received letters detailing interim suspensions for their “participation in the encampment” — a vague allegation that could include hundreds of students. At least 17 cases involve planned removal of access to food (meal plans) and housing (access to dorm rooms). In one case, the student has a wife and a 5-year-old daughter who will soon also be without access to housing.

Faculty members working with students facing interim suspensions are already witnessing errors in the process of identifying students. In one case, a Palestinian student who had been avoiding the encampment since Monday received a suspension notice. This is an indication that the hastily enacted process of identifying (through unclear means and methods) and preemptively punishing students is likely to be flawed.

We call on the administration to immediately rescind the interim suspensions and work with COD to manage a disciplinary process that maintains a more transparent, fair, and ethically coherent approach.

Signed,

Faculty

1. Ryan Aasen, Visiting Lecturer, ACT
2. Fatin Abbas, Lecturer, CMS/W
3. Mohamed Abdelhafez, Lecturer, Physics
4. Fadel Adib, Associate Professor, Media Lab & EECS
5. Sana Aiyar, ​​​Associate Professor, History
6. Anant Agarwal, Professor, EECS/CSAIL
7. Azra Aksamija, Professor, ACT
8. Adam Albright, Professor, Linguistics
9. Sandy Alexandre, Associate Professor, Literature
10. Latifa Alkhayat, Teaching Fellow, Architecture
11. Abdullah Almaatouq, Assistant Professor, Sloan School of Management
12. Saman Amarasinghe, Professor, EECS/CSAIL
13. Katya Arquilla, Visiting Assistant Professor, AeroAstro
14. Amir Anvari, Assistant Professor, Linguistics & Philosophy
15. Athulya Aravind, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Linguistics and Philosophy
16. Seth Avecilla, Technical Instructor, Morningside Academy for Design
17. Vivek Bald, Associate Professor, CMS/W
18. Dwaipayan Banerjee, Associate Professor, STS
19. Roi Salgueiro Barrio, Lecturer, Architecture
20. Kim Bath, Lecturer, CMS/W
21. Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, EECS
22. Caroline Beimford, Lecturer, CMS/W & WRAP
23. Edmund Bertschinger, Professor, Physics
24. Robert C Berwick, Professor, EECS
25. Lydia Bourouiba, Associate Professor, Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, & Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
26. Kate Brown, Thomas Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science, STS
27. Karilyn Crockett, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies & Planning
28. Christopher Cullen, Lecturer, MIT Sloan
29. Catherine D’Ignazio, Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
30. Michel DeGraff, Professor, Linguistics
31. Junot Díaz, Professor, CMS/Writing
32. Tawanna R. Dillahunt, MLK Visiting Scholar, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
33. Nilma Dominique, Lecturer, Global Languages
34. Kevin Dorst, Associate Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
35. Peter Dourmashkin, Senior Lecturer, Physics
36. Caitlyn Doyle, Lecturer, Literature
37. Eric Driscoll, Lecturer, History and Literature
38. Fabio Duarte, Lecturer, Principal Research Scientist, Urban Studies and Planning
39. Paloma Duong, Associate Professor, CMS/W
40. Arindam Dutta, Professor, Architecture
41. Laura Finch, Assistant Professor, Literature
42. Danny Fox, Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
43. Elizabeth Fox, Lecturer, CMS/Writing
44. Giada Franz, Instructor, Mathematics
45. Nuh Gedik, Donner Professor of Physics, RLE
46. Erin Genia, Visiting Lecturer, ACT
47. Marzyeh Ghassemi, Assistant Professor, EECS/IMES
48. Ahmed Ghoniem, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
49. Rania Ghosn, Associate Professor, Architecture
50. Ezra Haber Glenn. Lecturer; co-chair, MCP Committee, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
51. Marah Gubar, Associate Professor, CMS/W
52. Huma Gupta, Assistant Professor, Architecture
53. Wesley L. Harris, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AeroAstro
54. Charles Harvey, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
55. Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate in WGS and D-Lab
56. Thomas Heldt, Associate Professor of Electrical & Biomedical Engineering, EECS/IMES/RLE
57. Stefan Helmreich, Professor, Anthropology
58. Maya Honda, Lecturer, Linguistics
59. Caley Horan, Associate Professor, History
60. Sabine Iatridou, Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
61. Noel Jackson, Associate Professor, Literature
62. Erica Caple James, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Urban Studies, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
63. Nancy Kanwisher, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
64. Dina Katabi, Professor, EECS
65. Wyn Kelley, Senior Lecturer, Literature
66. Michael J. Kenstowicz, Professor, Dept. of Linguistics
67. Bo-Won Keum, Lecturer, Architecture
68. Justin Khoo, Associate Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
69. Yoon Kim, Assistant Professor, EECS
70. Jonathan King, Prof. of Molecular Biology Emeritus
71. Jaffer Kolb, Lecturer, Architecture
72. Crystal Lee, Assistant Professor, CMS/W
73. Helen Elaine Lee, Professor, CMS/W
74. Thomas Levenson, Professor, CMS/W
75. Ben Mangrum, Assistant Professor, Literature
76. Kenneth R. Manning, Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and of the History of Science, STS & CMS/W
77. Admir Masic, Associate Professor, CEE
78. Youssef Marzouk, Professor, AeroAstro
79. Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Professor, Program in STS
80. Libby McDonald, Lecturer, D-Lab
81. Ceasar McDowell, Professor of Practice of Civic Design, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
82. David McGee, Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
83. Vann McGee, Professor emeritus, Linguistics and Philosophy
84. William McKenna, Technical Lecturer, Morningside Academy of Design
85. Eden Medina, Associate Professor, STS
86. Janis Melvold. Lecturer, CMS/W WRAP
87. Hector Membreno-Canales, Lecturer, ACT
88. Ana Miljački, Professor, Architecture
89. Haynes Miller, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
90. Susan Murcott, Lecturer, D-Lab
91. Hiromu Nagahara, Associate Professor, History
92. Mohamad Nahleh, Lecturer, Architecture
93. Richard Nielsen, Associate Professor, Political Science
94. Jess Osserman, Technical Instructor, Project Manus
95. Kenneth Oye, Professor, Political Science, Center for International Studies, IDSS
96. Tanalís Padilla, Professor of History
97. Bruno Perreau, Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies, Literature
98. Ruth Perry, Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, Literature
99. David Pesetsky, Professor, Linguistics
100. Jean-Luc Pierite, MLK Visiting Scholar, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
101. Tobias Putrih, Lecturer, ACT
102. Nasser Rabbat, Professor, Architecture
103. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
104. Margery Resnick, Associate Professor, Literature
105. Mitchel Resnick, Professor, MIT Media Lab
106. Norvin Richards, Professor, Linguistics
107. Eric Robsky Huntley, Lecturer in Urban Science and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
108. Paul Roquet, Associate Professor, CMS/W
109. Lawrence Sass, Professor, Architecture
110. Arvind Satyanarayan, Associate Professor, EECS/CSAIL
111. Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Associate Professor, STS
112. Edward Schiappa, Professor, CMS/W
113. Viola Schmitt, Visiting Assciate Professor, Linguistics
114. Ben Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Political Science
115. Kieran Setiya, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
116. Andres Sevtsuk, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
117. Lisbeth Shepherd, Lecturer, Architecture
118. Rosalyne Shieh, Assistant Professor, Architecture
119. Peter Shor, Professor, Mathematics, CSAIL, CTP
120. Matthew Shoulders, Professor, Chemistry
121. Nida Sinnokrot, Associate Professor, ACT
122. Amy Smith, Founding Director, MIT D-Lab
123. Raechel Soicher, Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation, Teaching + Learning Lab
124. Susan Solomon, Martin Professor of Environmental Studies, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
125. Donca Steriade, Professor, Linguistics
126. Jessie Stickgold-Sarah, Lecturer, CMS/W WRAP
127. Bettina Stoetzer, Associate Professor, Anthropology
128. Adam Subhas, WHOI Associate Scientist and faculty in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program
129. Abha Sur, Lecturer, WGS
130. Mriganka Sur, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Science
131. Julien Tailleur, Associate Professor, Physics
132. T.L. Taylor, Professor, CMS/W​​​​​​​
133. Joaquin Terrones, Lecturer, Literature & WGS
134. Martha Thompson, Lecturer, D-Lab
135. Michael Trice, Lecturer, CMS/W
136. Franz-Joseph Ulm, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
137. Gediminas Urbonas, Associate Professor, ACT
138. Andrea Walsh, Lecturer, CMS/Writing
139. Craig S. Wilder, Professor of History, History
140. Brianna Williams, Lecturer, CMS/W & WGS, SHASS
141. John Willis, Visiting Lecturer, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Professor of Photography, Emeritus
142. Ashia Wilson, Assistant Professor, EECS
143. Danielle Wood, Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences/Aeronautics and Astronautics, Media Lab
144. Elizabeth Wood, Professor, History
145. George Verghese, Professor (post-tenure), EECS
146. Kai von Fintel, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Linguistics
147. Stephen Yablo, Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
148. Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
149. Anonymous Lecturer
150. Anonymous Assistant Professor
151. Anonymous Lecturer
152. Anonymous Assistant Professor
153. Anonymous Assistant Professor
154. Anonymous Lecturer

Signatories for formal letter as of 5/10, 6p (one staff member inadvertently included, now listed below)