Stop the Cuts at Emory

General coverage
No Confidence votes
Rally Against Racism 2/27
Wagner’s “three-fifths” editorial/SCLC exhibition protest
AAUP investigation
Negotiation session with Forman and Wagner
12/4 walkout coverage
Wagner’s State of the University Address
Department-specific news and opinions: ILA, Journalism, Visual Arts
 

General coverage
Rose Scott, WABE 90.1: “Emory Group and Administration Differ About Fact Sheet on Race and the Emory Cuts” (interviews with Katherine Bryant and Dean Forman)
Kevin Kiley, Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 28: “Amending the record”
Dustin Slade, Wheel, Jan. 22: “Open letter says not all oppose Forman, CFAC”
Benjamin Leiner, Wheel, Jan. 22: “Rethinking What Emory Stands For” (op-ed)
Gary A. Olson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 17: “The Distress of Program Cuts”
Jordan Friedman, USA Today, Dec. 19, 2012: “6 campus protests that captured the nation’s attention in 2012″
Emory Wheel, Oct. 26: “Emory’s AAUP chapter criticizes department changes,” an interview with Prof. Barbara Ladd of English
The Southerner (Grady H.S.): “Emory community reacts to downsizing of departments”
Emory Wheel, Sept. 21: Department chairs clarify recent misinformation; National media discuss Forman’s plans; Liberal arts: still valuable (op-ed).
90.1 FM WABE (Atlanta’s NPR): Students voice concerns about Emory cuts (includes some recordings from Monday’s rally)
Inside Higher Education: Emory announces program eliminations.
Creative Loafing: Emory faculty and students respond to proposed program cuts.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Emory Will Close 3 Departments.
Emory Wheel: College Downsizes Departments, Phases Out Programs, Faculty, Staff
 

No Confidence votes
Wheel: Laney [Graduate] Students Vote “No Confidence” in Wagner
Inside Higher Ed, April 18: Emory Faculty Council Issues Statement Backing President
Katherine Bryant (SRC), op-ed in the Wheel, April 15: “Voting for Courageous Inquiry”
Wheel editorial: “Not-’No Confidence’ Does Not Equal Confidence”
Laura Diamond, AJC, March 27: “Emory faculty to hold confidence vote on President Wagner”
Laura Diamond, AJC, March 20: “Emory faculty table vote of no confidence in Wagner”

Rally Against Racism, Feb. 28
Laura Diamond, AJC: “Emory students protest against president’s essay, campus culture”
Associated Press: “Emory University Students Rally over School President’s Remarks”
Fox 5: “Emory students rally after president’s essay” (article and video)
WSBTV-Channel 2: “Students protest Emory president” (video)
Mael Vizcarra (ILA, SRC), “The Long March Against Racism at Emory” in The Nation’s “Dispatches from the Student Movement”

Wagner’s editorial praising three-fifths compromise and SCLC exhibition protest
Salon: “Emory president holds up ‘three-fifths’ compromise as noble, honorable”
Gawker: “Emory University President Praises Three-Fifths Compromise As Great ‘Pragmatic’ Solution” (tag: “Racism”)
Tressie McMillan Cottom (Sociology, Emory): “Higher education ideological wars: Who is the ‘slave’?”
Janet Shan, Hinterland Gazette and The Moderate Voice: “Emory President James Wagner: Deal That Called Slaves Three-Fifths of a Person, a Classic Compromise”
Aaron Bady, The New Inquiry: “James Wagner’s ‘highest aspiration’”
Chris Taylor (English, U of Chicago): “Antebellism: The Neoliberal Compromise of the Political”
The Raw Story: “University president: ‘Three-Fifths’ slavery agreement example of ‘pragmatic’ compromise”
Kaimipono D. Wegner (Thomas Jefferson School of Law), Concurring Opinions: “One step forward, three-fifths of a step back?”
Roopika Risam (English, Emory): “On the Nature of Gaffes” (also deals with our initial framing of the incident)
Jim Galloway, AJC: “Emory U. president sparks three-fifths of a furor”
Claire Potter, “Tenured Radical” at the Chronicle of Higher Ed: “President-Palooza”
Daily Mail (UK): “Emory University president apologizes for calling Constitutional compromise that enabled slavery ‘noble and honorable’”

Visual Scholarship Initiative: At Emory: We Are Sorry (Tumblr)
Noëlle McAfee (Philosophy, Emory): “Emory Compromised” and “An Apt Analogy?”
Natalia Cecire (English, Yale): “Race and the privilege of innocence”
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed: “Compromised Position” (discusses blog responses)
Thomas Wheatley, Creative Loafing: “Emory president uses ‘three-fifths’ agreement to teach lesson about compromise” (quotes Tyrone Forman of the James Weldon Johnson Institute)
Gary Legum, Wonkette: “It is cute when white people try to have thoughts about slavery”
CNN’s “In America” blog: “Emory president apologizes for citing slavery compromise as an example of pragmatism”
WSBTV-Channel 2: “Emory president apologizes for controversial comments” (video)
WABE 90.1 FM: “Morehouse Director of African American Studies on ‘Three-Fifths Compromise’ Cited by Emory Pres.” (with audio)
Wheel, Feb. 19: Evan Mah et al, “Controversy Arises” (includes further comments from Wagner and Gary Hauk); Faculty Letter to President Wagner (from History and African American Studies); Samantha Allen (WGSS), “Flawed Discourse by Wagner”; Black Student Alliance President, “Wagner, There is Still Work to Be Done”
Inside Higher Ed: “Critics of Emory President Aren’t Satisfied”
New York Magazine: lengthy reference to Wagner in “Bowles and Simpson Chase the Center,” on federal deficit reduction proposals
In These Times: Emory University President Gets Flak for Praising ‘Three-Fifths’ Compromise
Huffington Post Live: “Accidental Racism?” (video)
Esquire’s Politics Blog: “A tough weekend for ‘compromise’”
The Grio: “Emory president fighting for his job after slavery comments”
GOOD: “Slavery-era solutions for modern problems?”
Atlanta Magazine’s “Daily Agenda”: “Any bets on how long before the Emory trustees can James Wagner?”
Washington Post (AP): “Emory president’s essay…draws criticisms” (overview of race-related complaints on campus)
David Daley, Salon: “Heat rising on Emory president”
The New York Times: “Georgia – Emory Head Censured for Slavery Column”
NPR: interview with Prof. Leslie Harris of history (4 mins.) (noted in administration-published Emory Report)
The New York Times: “Emory University’s Leader Reopens Its Racial Wounds”
TIME: “How not to compromise” (or, why Emory is not run like a republic)
DiversityInc. (business consultancy): “Emory president ‘apologizes’…”
Leslie Harris (History, Emory): “A moral stand was not out of the question” (in which the NYT uses the scandal at Emory as a springboard to evaluate “the Constitution’s immoral compromise”)
8 faculty members, Philosophy: “Open Letter to President Wagner” (Wheel, Feb. 28)
Paul Rosenberg, Al Jazeera (Mar. 1): “Three-fifths of the American Dream”
Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker News Desk (Mar. 7): “Bloody Sunday, the Voting Rights Act, and the Movement of History”

AAUP investigation
Martha Dalton, WABE 90.1 FM: “National group raises questions about Emory program cuts”

Negotiation session with Forman and Wagner, Dec. 7, 2012
Laura Diamond, AJC: Emory president, students discuss program cuts
WSB TV/Radio: Students meet with Emory leaders over cuts (during discussions; video with no transcript); Talks over cuts break down between Emory president, students (video, transcript)
Dustin Slade, Emory Wheel: “Admins Deny Request to Reverse Cuts”
Official press release from VP Nancy Seideman: “Emory leaders hold follow-up meeting”

Laura Emiko Soltis, “Reflecting on Emory’s Behavior: More than Department Cuts”

12/4 Walkout coverage:

Martha Dalton, WABE 90.1 (NPR): “Emory student protest sparks possible negotiation process,” interview with Andrew Zonderman

Kate Brumback, Associated Press Wire: “Proposed Emory cuts anger some students, faculty” at Online Athens; shorter version on Fox 5 Atlanta.

Photos by David Goldman (AP)

WSB-TV “Emory students rally against department cuts”; videos also on YouTube
CBS Atlanta: “Emory students upset about possible cuts”

AJC: Emory students vote to end occupation
Maureen Downey, AJC’s “Get Schooled” blog: “Emory walkout tomorrow: Taking a stand for lost programs”

Joshua Stewart, GPB/American Public Media’s “Marketplace”: “Emory students protest planned cuts” (features student Elizabeth Hennig)

Daniel Luzer, Washington Monthly: “Emory Students End Campus Protest” (skeptical)

In the Emory Wheel: Dustin Slade, “Protesters stage walkout, sit-in over department changes”; A.J. Artis, “AJ Doesn’t Walk Out” (humorous, on live-tweeting the protest); Editorial Board, “Our Opinion: Walk-Out Well Organized”

Coverage on 106.7 FM

President Wagner’s State of the University Address
Wheel, Nov. 2: “Wagner Pressured at University Address”
Jonathan Demar: #EmoryCuts Response to State of the University Address (audio on YouTube)

Visual arts
Lilly Lampe and Amanda Parmer, Art & Education: “Emory U. Eradicates its Visual Arts Department, Portending an Ominous Trend in University Education”
ArtsATL on the Visual Arts department cut
Burnaway: “Emory Dumps the Visual Arts?”

Institute of the Liberal Arts
Emory Wheel, Oct. 23: “Institute rejects program suspension”

Journalism
The Daily Tar Heel (U of North Carolina): Emory cuts journalism program.
The Cavalier Daily (University of Virginia): “Running with scissors”, reprinted at The Huffington Post
Knight Centre for Journalism in the Americas: University to close journalism program amidst calls to improve journalism education in the U.S.. This column spurred our friends across the pond, at The Guardian, to take note.
Associated Press: Emory plans to close journalism program in 2 years, Sept. 14