Students at New York City university demand ‘A’ grades after faculty strike
Jeremiah Poff
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A group of students at New School in New York City is demanding the administration grant all students “A” grades for their fall courses after a nearly monthlong strike by the university’s adjunct faculty.
The group of students had been protesting in support of the New School’s adjunct faculty, who had gone on strike demanding higher wages. The strike lasted 25 days before ending on Dec. 10, but the students have now shifted their protest to demand the university provide them all with “A” grades for their fall courses, disband the board of trustees, and refund tuition, along with a number of other demands.
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The list of demands, which totals 16 separate items, says they were “raised and accepted by consensus” by the protesting students on Dec. 9 and finalized the following day.
“We demand that every student receives a final course grade of A … for the Fall 2022 semester,” the first item on the list of demands says. “Attendance shall have no bearing on course grade. Grading shall not be conducted by anyone other than the official course instructor or teaching assistant, with no ‘Temporary Progress Reviewer’ allowed to grade students.”
Among the most extreme items on the list is the demanded resignations of several senior administrators, including the university’s president, Dwight McBride. The students also demanded the resignations of Provost Renee White and Vice President of Business and Operations Tokumbo Shobowale.
The students are also demanding that the university disband the board of trustees and the administration of the school be replaced with “a participatory process,= as defined by the non-administrative TNS community” that can “be reviewed and/or recalled by the non-administrative TNS community at any time.”
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, a university spokesperson said the institution “supports peaceful free expression by our students” and that they were “listening closely to all of our students’ concerns.”
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“Faculty retain autonomy about how to conduct and grade their courses,” the university said.