Georgia’s Emory University called ‘thuggish’ over unilateral protest rules

Gregory Fenves, the president, violated ‘shared governance’ with new policy, say faculty leaders Atlanta’s Emory University began the new school year last week with the president Gregory Fenves unilaterally announcing a new policy prohibiting tents on campus, “building occupations and/or takeovers” and protests after midnight – in violation of the school’s shared governance policy, according to faculty members in positions of leadership who spoke to the Guardian. Fenves announced the new policy last Tuesday, calling it an effort to “improve how we keep our community safe”. But the university senate’s current president and president-elect met with Fenves the following afternoon, urging him to delay implementing the new rules until a process had taken place that included the full senate holding a meeting and issuing recommendations, the Guardian has learned.