✊ In solidarity with Professor Eric Cheyfitz, and with gratitude for his scholar-activism.
We join widespread outrage at the Cornell administration's politically-motivated repression of Professor Cheyfitz.
Cheyfitz has been denied his right to teach his final classes; students have been denied their right to learn from him; and we have all been denied the principles of academic freedom and shared governance on Cornell's campus.
The hierarchical corporate university lacks an ethical core.
Cheyfitz wrote in July 2025: "The hierarchical corporate structure is built to resist solidarity, the kinship of its workers (faculty, students, and staff)... [and] to stimulate one's tunnel vision. Keeping voices of resistance alive is crucial in a corporate structure that demands silence except when the managers speak."
In gratitude
We are grateful for Professor Cheyfitz's scholar-activism:
For holding up the Native concept of "natural democracy" built on kinship with nature as culture; for insisting upon the historical reality of Cornell's foundation in Indigenous dispossession and Native genocide; and for resisting Cornell's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
In solidarity
We condemn Cornell's politically motivated repression of Professor Cheyfitz for his pro-Palestinian views.
Cornell has denied his right to teach his final classes before his planned retirement in a blatant violation of due process, faculty governance, and academic freedom.
[Photo of Prof. Eric Cheyfitz]
In defense of academic freedom
Solidarity statement condemning Cornell's biased sanctioning of Professor Eric Cheyfitz