Lisa King, professor and co-director of women’s and gender studies, reached out to On the Edge to publish a statement that a number of faculty at Edgewood signed. The statement is in support of students from marginalized communities and those students who have been and continue to be targets of hate on campus.
The statement is copied below.
We, the undersigned at Edgewood College, stand in solidarity with our most marginalized students, those who have been targeted recently on campus, and those who remain targets of hate and violence in the broader culture: immigrant students, students of color, Muslim students, Arab-American students, LGBTQIA+ students, Jewish students, Latinx students, students with disabilities, Indigenous students, and economically disadvantaged students. In doing so, we embrace Edgewood’s commitment to social justice, insisting on the value of all members of our community. We call on the college as a whole, including the administration, to directly confront racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, classism and ableism on campus, centering the experiences of our marginalized community members over those of us who are privileged. We reaffirm the college’s statement on diversity and inclusion, pledging to do better ourselves both in and out of the classroom:
- The privileged among us will educate themselves and each other about social power and marginalization, and support less privileged faculty, staff and students across campus.
- We will not put marginalized students in the position of speaking for “their” people
- We will insist on intersectional analysis
- we will name and decenter whiteness explicitly rather than taking it as the unexamined norm
- we will analyze the complex, intertwining nature of power relations in our culture and society
- We will hold each other accountable for our own unexamined racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, classism and ableism.
- We will strive to be open to students’ perspectives, including their critiques of our own theory and practice.
- We will interrogate the limitations of Edgewood’s model of “inclusion and diversity.”
- We will prioritize hires of faculty and administrators of color, and faculty and administrators from other marginalized groups in our programs, working with the administration to offer competitive compensation packages.
- Those of us whose work focuses on power, privilege and marginalization will offer their expertise as a resource to their colleagues.
We invite the administration and staff across the college to work with us toward achieving these goals.
Geoffrey Adelsberg, Philosophy Department
Greg Alexandrian, Computing and Information Sciences Department
Heidi Aschenbrenner, School of Business
Tami Bahr, Psychology Department
Karen Ball, Academic Success
Mary Elizabeth Bathum, School of Nursing
Diane Benjamin, Mathematics Department
Sharon Besser, School of Education
Peter Burke, School of Education
Ashley Byock, English Department
Andrea Byrum, Foreign Languages Department
Christine Cady, Art Department
Lisa Carey, School of Education
Jinxing Chen, History Department
Denis Collins, School of Business
Steve Davis, Social Sciences Department
Brenda del Moral, Biological Sciences Department
Julie Dunbar, Music Department
Christopher Dunham, Theater Arts Department
Adam Fell, English Department
Carolyn Field, Social Sciences Department
Carrie Firman, Art Department
Binbin Fu, School of Integrative Studies
Barbara Gallogly, School of Nursing
Cabell Gathman, Social Sciences Department
Jacob Gill, School of Business
Jake Griffin, Biological Sciences Department
Kelley Grorud, Academic Dean’s Office
Stephen Guziewski, Chemistry, Geoscience and Physics Department
Todd Mannes, Music Department
Dana Hagerman, School of Education
Timothy Hansel, Philosophy Department
Lane Hanson, Social Sciences Department
Fred Harrington, Philosophy Department
Jay Hatheway, History Department
Janice Havlena, Art Department
Jessica Heckman, Biology Department
Erika Helmer, School of Nursing
Melanie Herzog, Art Department
Ashley Holland, Psychology Department
Susan Hollingsworth, Mathematics Department
Jed Hopkins, School of Education
Sheila Hopkins, School of Education
Brianna Huebner, School of Education
Diana Huepenbecker, Biological Sciences Department
Frances Johnson, School of Education
Kathleen Kelm, Computer and Information Science Department
John Kibler, School of Education
Nicole Kime, Biological Science Department
Lisa King, Philosophy Department and Women’s and Gender Studies
Jill Kirby, Religious Studies Department
Holly Klawitter, School of Business
MaryRuth Kotelnicki, Biological Sciences Department
Timothy Kuhman, Biological Sciences Department
Peter Kuhn, Biological Sciences Department
Lauren Lacey, English Department and Women’s and Gender Studies
David Lambert, Psychology Department
Rachael Lancor, Chemistry, Geoscience and Physics Department
Jeanne Leep, Theater Arts Department
John Leonard, Religious Studies Department
Talonda Lipsey-Brown, School of Education
Marisol Lopez, Biological Science Department
Julie Luecke, School of Education
Sayeeda Mamoon, Foreign Language Department
Gerardo Mancilla, School of Education
Sara Manders, Biological Science Department
Rebecca Meier-Rao, Religious Studies Department
Kelly Mella, Communications Studies Department
Kristine Mickelson, School of Integrative Studies
Susan Moen, School of Education
Annette Mondry, School of Business
Daniel Mortensen, Philosophy Department
Susan Nanning-Sorenson, Theater Arts Department
Aimee Nelson, Mathematics Department
Dan Olson, Chemistry, Geoscience and Physics Department
Suzanne Otte Allen, School of Education
Huining Ouyang, Ethnic Studies Program
Susan Pastor, COR Program
Sergei Pavlov, Music Department
Donna Peckett, Theater Arts Department
Steven Post, Mathematics Department
Rachel Poulsen, English Department
Zachary Pratt, Biological Sciences Department
Sr. Isabel Rafferty, OP, Art Department
Cynthia Rolling, Social Sciences Departments
Susan Rustick, English Department
Carrie Sanders, COR Program
Joan Schilling, Psychology Department
Katie Selle, School of Nursing
Yulia Semeniuk, School of Nursing
Lori Severtson, School of Nursing
Deborah Sharp, Biological Sciences Department
Bonnie Sierlecki, Communication Studies Department
Katherine Soller, Mathematics Department
Ferrinne Spector, Psychology Department
Marihelen Stoltz, Communications Studies Department
Louise Stracener, Chemistry, Geoscience and Physics Department
Bob Tarrell, Art Department
Terra Theim, Biological Sciences Department
Karen Thomas, Mathematics Department
Donna Vukelich-Selva, School of Education
David Wells, Art Department
Julie Whitaker, Social Sciences Department
Ernise Williams, School of Nursing and Center for Multicultural Education
Andy Witt, History Department
Angela Woodward, School of Integrative Studies
David Young, English Department
Rebecca Zambrano, Academic Dean’s Office
MJ Best, School of Education; Doctoral Program in Leadership
Amy Schiebel, Biological Sciences and CGP Department
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