A letter  allegedly signed off by 828 professors and staff (aka; old hippies, communist sympathizers, marxist) threaten to withhold final grades of all students if amnesty isn't granted to 'protestors' thus delaying or preventing graduation.




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Rep. Richard Hudson, R-NC, said professors who withhold students' grades in a show of support for anti-Israel rioters should be "immediately" terminated. The comment came after professors at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reportedly organized a protest where they would withhold the final grades of all students unless the university reinstates students they claim were suspended during an anti-Israel demonstration last week.

"UNC professors should be protecting students who are targets of antisemitism and violence," Hudson tweeted on X. "They should not be protecting the bigots and antisemites. Fire any faculty or staff participating in withholding grades immediately."
The UNC-Chapel Hill sent a letter cautioning professors and faculty members against withholding students' final grades on Tuesday.

The academic anarchy comes after anti-Israel demonstrations sprang up on the campus last week. These agitators ripped down an American flag on the campus and replaced its patriotic red, white and blue with the Palestinian flag, flying the red, green and white high over the campus.
To restore order, university administrators took action and ordered police to clear the encampment. The students who participated in the unrest were forced to clear the area and some faced disciplinary action.
On Monday, several students got a message via the school portal that said: "In solidarity with these students, I [the unnamed author] (along with many other faculty, teaching assistants, fellows, and graders across campus) have decided to withhold my reporting of final grades to the Registrar's Office," the Carolina Journal reported.

"On May 13, if the administration has not reinstated the suspended students, you will see a NR (for Not Reported) on your transcript," the message board read. "An NR does not change your GPA positively or negatively, and can remain on your transcript until the end of the following semester. I will keep a personal record of your grades so that, once the administration meets our demands, the grades you earned will be recorded."

In a show of "solidarity" with the students, some professors at the university reportedly began organizing an effort to withhold students' final grades from transcripts.

On Tuesday, UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Chris Clemens and Graduate School Dean Beth Mayer-Davis sent a letter to deans and department chairs addressing the apparent protest.

"We are hearing concerns from students whose instructors have informed them they will withhold grades as part of a protest. These students depend on the timely submission of their grades for graduation, jobs, and athletic eligibility, and it is part of the required duties of all faculty and graduate TAs to submit grades by the registrar deadlines," Clemens and Mayer-Davis said in the joint statement.
The university said the protesting professors could face "sanctions."

"Dear Deans and Department Chairs, we are asking you to please work with your faculty and graduate students to ensure that we follow exemplary practice in our work as educators," Clemens and Mayer-Davis wrote. "We strongly support the right of faculty and graduate students to express their opinions freely but there are better ways to do this than hurting our students and abrogating our contract with the people of North Carolina who support our university."
They continued: "We are counting on your leadership in this matter."  
"The provost's office will support sanctions for any instructor who is found to have improperly withheld grades, but it is our hope we can resolve this matter amicably and without harm to students," the letter added.
The letter concluded by calling for "excellence in the classroom" and said instructors would "damage the trust we hold with our students by withholding grades."

Police ultimately cleared the encampment on April 30.

UNC-Chapel Hill is located just outside the 9th Congressional District which Hudson represents in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Round them up and send them to the Gaza Strip

When my 4 year old throws a tantrum I take away her favorite toys. The school should take away their paychecks.

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828 ex employees would be getting escorted out of the school by the end of the day

This is why tenure is a sacred institution needed in academia

LOL....
Bold Strategy Cotton.

I am really curious to see how this plays out.   Someone who wasn't involved in the stupidity having their final grades held seems like a law suit waiting to happen.

UNC will cave.

It’s a liberal craphole filled with marxists from the top to bottom.

Its a state school so I wonder if the tenured terrorists could be charged under statutes regarding government records.

Immediately, for even raising this as a possibility.

If I was a UNC student who’s grades were withheld out of some “protest solidarity “ I’d be investigating my legal options against the professors and the university as a whole.

It'll take just one Dad and a baseball bat to change their mind. It really needs to happen to these commie shitheads. In mincraft of course.

In reality how many students are being sanctioned by UNC CH?

I'd bet the vast majority of arrestees were not enrolled there.  Charges are up to the local prosecutors right?

Seems like a free pass to clean house.  If there was any real interest in taking out the trash.

They cant fire them so they will do whatever the fuck they want

Withhold the grades, then sue the school into bankruptcy.

My thoughts as well

Of course they will.  The school wants to do exactly that.  

But UNC doesn't control jewish owned employers.  Good luck to yall kids getting those 3 jobs at HIMS.

America first!

Let the 7th century savages and the Christ killers sort it out. I don't give a fuck about either group.

And I love the irony of leftist Jews getting their own medicine.

It's a lot like the unions.  It protects shit birds from any accountability.

I’m not sure about that because UNC is a public school and they are threatening to sabotage the education of students. They might’ve just pushed too far. That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.

It is somewhat entertaining to watch far left groups eat each other. The political left have backed themselves into a corner.

Class action lawsuit against those professors and staff by the students fucked over.

Is refusal to perform a core job duty enough of a reason to fire someone who has tenure?

If so, Chapel Hill needs to have about eight hundred job listings up, 48 hours after the "faculty turns in grades" deadlines. I hope the campus police has the overtime budget for the civil standbys from escorting former employees out of the HR offices.

So, where is the list of the 828 signatories?

Release the frat boys.

Yep.  If that were my kid and I shelled out big bucks I'd be pissed and they'd be hearing from my lawyer pronto.

You withhold my grades so I can't graduate? Then I withhold my tuition...simple as that. And if you come after me for your money, then I come after you for something far more important.

Fucking commies. The only good commie is a dead commie.

It was at the 'letter' hot link 15 minutes ago. Now it's gone.

Delaying grades could be easily shown to cause multiple types of damages.

Willfully refusing to do your job in the name of a political protest and in a way that hurts others is not going to be seen as protected speech by the courts, and juries are not going to be kinds to the professors.

Oh somebody downloaded/screenshot that and it'll be back.

I quoted the letter header in my OP, there were 828 names afterwards that I didn't copy.

Each student should file a small claims court for the max against the professors.  Surely there is a friendly small claims judge in the area.

...off to 4chan.......

Call their bluff.

Dirty hippies, Communist reds, and old Marxist throwbacks make demands.

Color me shocked.

Everybody gets As.

Next.

Small claims hell, someone pays $250k (just an estimate, feel free to correct this) for a 4 year education and then because some schmucks want to make a "statement" holding up my graduation and my degree that could get me a job (well at least for me I am getting a degree in something worth it, not underwater basket weaving).

.....I am suing for my entire education paid for, fuck em.

But what about the value of real estate on Franklin St.

Those Bobos and true believers aren’t being paid with meager wheat rations

Except it will be UNC that will be sued... not the individual staff involved.

I like the way you think.

Challenge accepted

Class of 91

F'm.

Fire every last one of them.

There's probably something about causing embarrassment to the school too.

That's where I am at.  Shit.  Sue the professors personally.

I wish they had the balls to fire them…but they don’t.