Yesterday, I exposed how the Arab Resource and Organizing Center had seemingly abused their power as a contractor for the San Francisco Unified School District, brainwashing students into staging a walkout for Gaza.
Today, I bring you the Victoria Huyn, a graduate student at UC Berkeley who is giving extra credit for her course Asian American Communities and Race Relations to any students who attend an anti-Israel walkout tomorrow or watch an anti-Israel documentary:
Note the language and graphics on the poster. This rally is not a call for peace, but a glorification of palestinian Arab “resistance” aka terrorism and its attempts to destroy the Jewish state.
Huynh must already be feeling the heat for her vile actions. She has taken down her LinkedIn profile, but not before it was screenshotted:
She has also made her website private – but Google is our friend and we see that it is DEI content work that she does for ModelExpand:
Because nothing screams out inclusion quite like showing your support for the murderers of innocent Jews.
Please join me in alerting ModelExpand and UC Berkeley to Huyn’s unconscionable attempts to brainwash students while making Jewish and pro-Israel students feel particularly unsafe.
UC Berkeley
Office of the Chancellor
Phone (510) 642-7464
Email: [email protected]
Updates:
25/10/23 21:00: The founder of ModelExpand emailed me the following:
26/10/23 9:25: According to this report:
When I e-mailed the media relations office, I was informed that:
As soon as the administration was made aware of the assignment it moved quickly to ensure that it would be changed. The situation has been remedied, the assignment has been changed and there are now a number of options for extra credit, not just one. Students can now attend any local event they wish—such as a book talk or a panel discussion—-related to the course’s subject, including the protest…or they can watch any documentary they wish about the Middle East.
The Berkeley provost’s office has also just sent out this follow-up, apparently to “all faculty, staff, and students”:
I write to remind people of University policy as pertains to academic freedom and political advocacy in the classroom. While instructors enjoy considerable freedom and all individuals, when acting as private citizens, enjoy free speech rights, University policy does impose limits on using the classroom or one’s course for purposes of political advocacy.
I call your immediate attention to Regents’ Policy 2301, which prohibits canceling a class session for the purpose of encouraging students to participate in a protest or rally.
The principal policies that apply to these matters are (URLs at end of message):
- the Faculty Code of Conduct found in Section 015 of the Academic Personnel Manual (APM 015);
- Regents’ Policy 2301; and
- for Unit 18 Lecturers, Section B4 of the Collective Bargaining agreement.
Among other limitations, these policies prohibit:
- significant intrusion of material unrelated to the course (APM 015, Section II, A.1.b & Section B4(b) of Unit 18 agreement);
- use of the position or powers of a faculty member to coerce the judgment or conscience of a student or to cause harm to a student for arbitrary or personal reasons (APM 015, Section II, A.5 & Section B4(h) of Unit 18 agreement); and
- misuse of the classroom by, for example, allowing it to be used for political indoctrination, for purposes other than those for which the course was constituted, or for providing grades without commensurate and appropriate student achievement (Regents’ Policy 2301).
In addition,
- Regents’ Policy 2301 stipulates “the right of students to have their classes held on the regularly scheduled basis and to be taught by the instructor whose responsibility it is to teach the course in question is to be upheld”; and
- APM 015, Part II, A.1.c. defines”significant failure to adhere, without legitimate reason, to the rules of the faculty in the conduct of courses, to meet class, to keep office hours, or to hold examinations as scheduled” to be a violation of the Faculty Code of Conduct.
Instructors are also reminded of the campus’s Principles of Community (https://diversity.berkeley.edu/principles-community) and of the importance of ensuring that students are not made to feel intimidated, threatened, and/or excluded in their classes.
Instructors who have questions concerning permissible or impermissible actions should discuss them with their department chair or school dean.
