Faculty Democracy is a broad-based association of NYU faculty dedicated to bringing transparency and accountability to decision making at the university. It is a forum for the voices for active faculty who are deeply concerned about the concentration of power upward into the strata of senior administrators. Independent of the representative system of faculty governance embodied in the Faculty Council, the membership is composed of over 200 full-time faculty. Its orbit of interest extends to all teaching staff at the university, including part-timers and graduate teaching assistants.
Faculty Democracy formed in 2005 when NYU’s University Leadership Team (ULT) made the decision
not to renew its contract with GSOC, the official graduate student union. President John Sexton and the university administration made this decision without consulting or acknowledging faculty opinion in any meaningful fashion. We believe that such blatant disregard of faculty in university governance tarnishes the good name of NYU and undermines the quality of the educational experience we provide. Faculty Democracy believes that it is time for a change. We are committed to transforming the currently token form of shared governance at NYU into a genuinely democratic process of institutional decision-making in which all voices are heard and all opinions counted.
See this link for information on Faculty Democracy’s support of the GSOC strike at NYU.
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