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President Andrew Hamilton Office of the President New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 President Andrew Hamilton Office of the President New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 [VIA EMAIL] July 7th, 2021 Dear President Andrew Hamilton, We are writing to deliver a petition, attached to this letter, signed by 1,133 people urging you to stop racial profiling Asian American and immigrant professors at New York University (NYU) and protect their rights to due process. Two tenured professors of Asian ancestry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine are facing unjust termination due to the National Institute of Health (NIH) investigations related to the Justice Department’s “China Initiative,” a discriminatory initiative launched under the Trump Administration. Under this initiative, the federal agencies such as the FBI and NIH have pressured NYU into profiling Asian Americans and Asian immigrants. The result is the ruined careers and lives of NYU professors. We urge NYU to: ● Immediately stop the racial profiling of Asian American and immigrant faculty members and to protect their rights to full due process; ● Reinstate the due process protections to School of Medicine medical professors that had been in place for all NYU faculty members since the 1980s so they may fight the injustices properly; ● Minimize entanglements with law enforcement and the FBI; and ● Provide clear, updated guidelines and instructions regarding grant application requirements, disclosures and conflicts of interest forms. Professors and researchers should have the opportunity to correct their forms without devastating employment consequences such as suspension and termination. As a university of international standing, NYU prides itself on its diverse faculty, significant international student population, and extensive global network. It maintains two degree-granting institutions outside the United States, one in China and one in the UAE. The university administration should not be caving to Trump-era racist policies by targeting scientists, researchers, and scholars based on their race, ethnicity, or ancestry. This contradicts NYU’s overall mission of global research, teaching, and scholarly collaboration. Universities such as NYU have encouraged international academic collaborations and transnational research initiatives, including with universities in China. As the corresponding guidelines surrounding international collaboration and disclosures change, the university ought not be criminalizing past behaviors that they often encouraged. NYU should stand up for its faculty and contest federal government overreach, rather than serving its faculty up on platters. Racial profiling is not only morally wrong, it is an ineffective weapon often wielded for malicious intent. We urge NYU to uphold its institution’s values, live up to our nation’s democratic ideals, and stand up in the face of injustice. You can view each petition signer and the comments they left you below. Thank you, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW Local 2110) American Association of University Professors NYU Chapter (AAUP-NYU) 1. An anonymous signer (ZIP code: ) 2. A. Tom Grunfeld (ZIP code: 11962) 3. Ailicec Kim (ZIP code: 01581) 4. MINGSHENG YIN (ZIP code: 11201) 5. Elaine Su (ZIP code: 34759) Stop Racial Profiling Asian Americans!! 6. Abigail Setera (ZIP code: 95482) 7. David Xi (ZIP code: 21236) Mr. NYU President Andrew Hamilton, Stop Racial Profiling Asian American and Asian Immigrant Professors and Protect Their Rights to Due Process 8. Aaron Posner (ZIP code: 10002) 9. Angie Baecker (ZIP code: 00000) 10. Karim Khalid (ZIP code: 11216) 11. Abigail Coplin (ZIP code: 10021) 12. Adam Bohnet (ZIP code: N6C 1K8) 13. Jasmine Zhang (ZIP code: 11355) 14. Andrea Cohen (ZIP code: 07079) 15. Angela Gunn (ZIP code: 31322) 16. Sara Townsend (ZIP code: 95673-2440) 17. Armon Dadvand (ZIP code: 10009) 18. Adriana Harrison (ZIP code: 10003) 19. Adrian B (ZIP code: 48109) 20. Adrienne Kim (ZIP code: 10463) 21. Mary Tablante (ZIP code: 20008) 22. Amica Rapadas (ZIP code: 35209) 23. Alexander Greer (ZIP code: 11210) 24. Andrew Hahm (ZIP code: 08542) 25. Andrew H Lee (ZIP code: 10012) 26. Alfred Nishikawa (ZIP code: 19312) 27. Aimin Jiang (ZIP code: 48302 ) 28. Amrit Trewn (ZIP code: 48207) 29. Alpha Kamara (ZIP code: 20706) Police have been following me for over 10 years now. It stresses me alot. I have nothing hidden. This is nothing but racial profiling. It’s sickening. 30. Ankush Kaira (ZIP code: 11209) 31. ALANA KNOPPOW (ZIP code: 48158) 32. Alene Rhea (ZIP code: 11385) 33. Ashley Tang (ZIP code: 10003) 34. Ariel Levine (ZIP code: 16509) 35. AIQI LI (ZIP code: 10075) 36. Alan Berquist (ZIP code: 94518) 37. Alejandra Marchevsky (ZIP code: 90026) 38. Aleli Samson (ZIP code: 95018) 39. Alexandra Tran (ZIP code: 22209) 40. Alex Moon (ZIP code: 02066) 41. Andrea Gadberry (ZIP code: 10012) 42. Alice Halbeisen (ZIP code: 01852) Chinese Americans are sick of having to prove their loyalty to this country. Stop this nonsense now. 43. Alice Lin (ZIP code: 22209) 44. Alice Welchert (ZIP code: 93402) It is frightening that in what is supposed to be a democracy an institution of “higher” learning is acting so low. White supremacy knows no bounds it would seem. 45. Shaniece Gibson (ZIP code: 31211) 46. Alina Das (ZIP code: 11215) 47. Alissa Dean Ceraulo (ZIP code: 91401) As an NYU alum, I am horrified to hear that this archaic practice of xenophobic racial profiling is happening as such a supposedly progressive institution of learning. 48. Allie Dillon (ZIP code: 10010) 49. Pei Li (ZIP code: 11201) 50. Anna McCarthy (ZIP code: 10012) 51. Amanda Sternklar (ZIP code: 11377) 52. Amber Chan (ZIP code: 08757) 53. Amber Nguyen (ZIP code: 77059) 54. Allison Kade (ZIP code: 19111) 55. Abbey Roper (ZIP code: 28277) 56. Ainsley Wortman (ZIP code: 01450) 57. Amy (ZIP code: 08852) 58. Amy Zhai (ZIP code: 20854) 59. Ana Sofia Erath (ZIP code: 10003) 60. William Mensing (ZIP code: 95350) 61. Andrea Ramos (ZIP code: 78216) As an incoming NYU Wagner student, it saddens me to hear that an unjust system has targeted immigrant professors. END AAPI PROFILING NOW! 62. Andrew Mah (ZIP code: 11211) 63. Aneek Patel (ZIP code: 10010) 64. Aneelah Afzali (ZIP code: 98106) 65. Angela Zito (ZIP code: 10011) 66. Angela Cai (ZIP code: 92602) 67. Angelica Villarta (ZIP code: 89122) 68. Beyonce Rose (ZIP code: 23464) 69. Anila Gill (ZIP code: 11231) 70. Anming Hu (ZIP code: 37922) Stop racial profiling and stop to violate due process right! 71. Anming Hu (ZIP code: 37922) Stop racial profiling and bias! these contradict the core value and beliefs of US! 72. Ann Fajilan (ZIP code: 94948) 73. Anna Vona (ZIP code: 10040) 74. Anna Zheng (ZIP code: 11215) 75. Anne Shields (ZIP code: 11218) 76. Bente Millek (ZIP code: 6400) 77. Annie Ly (ZIP code: 28786) 78. Anne Wang (ZIP code: 08807) 79. A. Naomi Paik (ZIP code: 10012) 80. yan zhang (ZIP code: 48105) 81. Tiffany Ng (ZIP code: 48104) 82. Anton Gallegos (ZIP code: 60613) 83. Ann Pellegrini (ZIP code: 10012) 84. Hong Zhong (ZIP code: 27516) Please treat all in a fair manner. 85. Avital Ronell (ZIP code: 10011) 86. Andrew Ross (ZIP code: 10013) 87. Arang Keshavarzian (ZIP code: 10012) 88. Ardelle Merton (ZIP code: 98011) 89. Areti Livanos (ZIP code: 07675) 90. Arjun Shankar (ZIP code: 10009) 91. Arundhati Velamur (ZIP code: 10026) 92. Amanda Sackur (ZIP code: N4) 93. Asano Fertig (ZIP code: 94702) 94. Ashley Winegarden (ZIP code: 10065) 95. Anika R. (ZIP code: 17050) 96. Astrid Jarvis (ZIP code: 11362) 97. Alexa Chabora (ZIP code: 10021) 98. Jeff Yin (ZIP code: 70113) 99. Audrey Berlowitz (ZIP code: 27408) You suspend people only AFTER you have strong evidence for wrong=doing not beforehand thus impeding their ability to fight their case, 100. Hannah Sullivan (ZIP code: 79416) 101. Ahmed Hafezi (ZIP code: 11220) 102. Stella Au (ZIP code: 10018) As a NYU alumni, I want to be proud of my alma mater. Racial profiling is not only morally wrong, it is an ineffective weapon often wielded for malicious intent. We urge NYU to uphold its institution’s values, live up to our nation’s democratic ideals, and stand up in the face of injustice. 103. Austin Crisman (ZIP code: 76712) 104. Avner Shemi (ZIP code: 10021-2954) 105. Adeline Wu (ZIP code: 94131) 106. Azisti Dembowski (ZIP code: 60637) 107. Alice Zhang (ZIP code: 22102) 108. Annette Cunningham (ZIP code: 45459) Sounds like the McCarthy era? 109. Raymonda Schwartz (ZIP code: 32539) 110. Banglin Chen (ZIP code: 78258) 111. Xuegang (Jeff) Ban (ZIP code: 98115) 112. Huiming Bao (ZIP code: 70803) 113. Tani Barlow (ZIP code: 77004) STOP HATE 114. Barron Northrup (ZIP code: 28805) 115. An anonymous signer (ZIP code: 11225) 116. Stephen Liu (ZIP code: 70122) 117. Rebecca Sausville (ZIP code: 11385) 118. Rebecca Rassool (ZIP code: 91604) 119. Bellum McPhillips-DeFilippi (ZIP code: 22203) 120. Bei Fan (ZIP code: 77845) 121. Beth Rosen (ZIP code: 10463) 122. Bhumika Chauhan (ZIP code: 11226) 123. Meeyong McFalls-Schwartz (ZIP code: 84116) 124. mina Zhao (ZIP code: 95838) 125. Barbara Yau (ZIP code: 10005) 126. William Newsome (ZIP code: 94305) 127. Alexandra Forbes (ZIP code: 05672) 128. Boudewijn Walraven (ZIP code: 2311SZ) 129. Stephen Boyd (ZIP code: 94305) 130. Bozhi Tian (ZIP code: 60637) 131. Bradly Reed (ZIP code: 22937) 132. Boyoung Chang (ZIP code: 60615) 133. Zhang Tang (ZIP code: 33647) 134. Caitlin Stankus (ZIP code: 60608) 135. Sandy Soo (ZIP code: 92840) 136. Ameya Calvocoressi (ZIP code: 11206) 137. Charlie Muller (ZIP code: 10040) 138. Camarin Camacho (ZIP code: 10003) 139. Caren Irr (ZIP code: 02138) 140. Carl Patton (ZIP code: 80528) President Hamilton, this kind of kangaroo court is not that NYU is about. I work with close colleagues at NYU. My daughter got her Master's Degree there.
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