Edgewood Faculty Stands With Students

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
  1. we will name and decenter whiteness explicitly rather than taking it as the unexamined norm
  2. 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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