The Faculty Senate demands, in the name of the values on which the United States and its public universities were founded, that the Regents cease the use of surveillance, policing, physical violence, and legal power as mechanisms to silence speech.
Faculty accused regents of fostering 'a climate of repression at the university, by authorizing police violence against students' and using 'chemical irritants' against students and employees, which they view as 'authoritarian tendencies antithetical to a public university in a democratic nation.'
The censure passed by a vote of 1,487 to 559 with 255 abstentions, indicating strong faculty opposition to the recent actions of the Board of Regents.
Faculty allege that changes to the student conduct code occurred without consultation and expand avenues to take action against students while limiting their time to respond to sanctions, further exacerbating tensions between the administration and faculty.
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