UCI faculty want suspensions lifted for students involved with encampment until disciplinary hearings are completed
The academic senate, a voting body that represents faculty members, has already called for an independent investigation into the administration’s crackdown on a protest at the on-campus pro-Palestinian encampment on May 15 that led to law enforcement from over 20 local agencies making nearly four dozen arrests and the encampment being cleared. On Friday, the senate explicitly asked UCI to lift the punishments levied on students allegedly involved with the encampment until investigations into the students’ conduct are completed. In early May, UCI issued interim suspensions to several students involved with the encampment. Critics of the interim suspensions say UCI has historically reserved them for students posing an imminent threat to the safety of others — something, they say, these students did not do.
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by Jonathan Horwitz, The Orange County Register.