Defend Dr. Nagesh Rao's tenure and reappointment at the College of New Jersey

5:00 pm PDT, Sep 7, Juhair Khan, New Jersey
Dr. Rao has been one of the most knowledgeable professors I had at TCNJ. He was my fsp professor in the class "Matrix and Philosophy," he taught me many things that I would've never thought of, It was very interesting and I still on my own time research things I learned in his class. Letting Dr. Rao is not a good decision!

10:36 am PDT, Jul 26, Christina Bolan, Vermont

1:57 pm PDT, Jul 21, Shubh Mathur, Pennsylvania
Dr. Rao's professional achievements and civic engagement show him to be clearly worthy of tenure. No more academic witch hunts.

3:39 pm PDT, Jul 17, Name not displayed, New Jersey
Increase accountability at all nine NJ universities and decrease these types of bias incidents.

8:07 pm PDT, Jul 1, Andrew Lubas, New Jersey

1:04 am PDT, Jun 11, Albana Rexhepaj, Switzerland
University of Zürich Zürich Switzerland

9:09 pm PDT, Jun 10, Name not displayed, New York
New School for Social Research, CUNY Graduate Center

4:37 pm PDT, Jun 10, Mary Von Aue, New Jersey
Why is TCNJ trying to limit the knowledge and academic growth of their students?

I am a graduate student at Columbia University.

1:49 pm PDT, Jun 8, Altha Cravey, North Carolina
Please reconsider the merits of this case.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

10:06 am PDT, Jun 8, Emily Plec, Oregon
President, Western Oregon University Federation of Teachers; Vice President, AFT-Oregon, AFT, AFL-CIO

6:56 am PDT, Jun 5, Lisa Paulin, North Carolina
North Carolina Central University, Dept. of English & Mass Communication

1:25 pm PDT, Jun 4, Juanita Darling, California
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Please list any organizational or academic institutional affiliation here. San Francisco State University

3:36 pm PDT, Jun 3, Terry Epperson, New Jersey
Nagesh is a much-needed breath of fresh air on this predominantly white, insular suburban campus, and his scholarship and activism pose an essential challenge to the smug, comfortable liberalism that generally passes for social engagement. His critical multiculturalist scholarship challenges "the idealist ahistoricism of mainstream postcolonial studies" as well as the Eurocentric received curriculum. I look forward to continuing and deepening our collegial relationship.

Social Sciences Librarian The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)

10:21 am PDT, Jun 2, Shilpa Shanbhag, New Jersey

4:47 am PDT, Jun 1, Sörensen Peter, Belgium

7:00 am PDT, May 31, Cecilia Suhr, New York
I've known Dr. Rao for years and although he is a professor in a different field of study, his intelligence, insight and dedication as a scholar always impressed me. Through engaging in various intellectual conversations with him, it also broaden my intellectual horizon and I strongly believe that his voice as a scholar is invaluable and instrumental to academia as a whole. It would be a tremendous loss for academic community to deny his dedication for a lifelong scholarship.

Rutgers University

4:34 am PDT, May 30, Minna Virtanen, Finland
Give Dr Nagesh Rao a tenure. This is ridiculous!!! It is obvious that there couldn't be too much multicultural studies in the US, given the current witch-hunt on professors! The world does not stop in the US, nor in Israel. There are other people too, like Palestinians, Burmese, Pakistanis, Afghans, Kurds, etc.etc.etc.

7:31 am PDT, May 26, Susan Chalikes, New Jersey

7:03 am PDT, May 26, Melissa Chalikes, New Jersey
I was lucky enough to enroll in Dr. Rao's multicultural literature class last semester and was thoroughly engaged in the material and ideas he presented. His discussions and unique view on age-old issues provided me with a better education in that single class than in all my other years of school. Without him, the English department at TCNJ, even TCNJ itself, would severely lack in the type of learning and ideologies that the institution often prides itself on. Dr. Nagesh Rao needs to stay.

Current TCNJ English/Secondary Education student

8:23 pm PDT, May 25, Name not displayed, Ohio
Dr. Rao's case should be reconsidered.

7:33 pm PDT, May 25, Priya Parmar, New York
Brooklyn College - CUNY School of Education Adolescence Program Language & Literacy Education & Curriculum & Instruction

4:56 pm PDT, May 25, Tapas Ray, Delaware

4:19 pm PDT, May 25, Nilanjana Bardhan, Illinois

2:12 pm PDT, May 25, Kapoor Priya, Oregon
Dr Nagesh Rao is a leading South Asian scholar. I use his work in my undergraduate and graduate level classes. He is more than deserving of Tenure. A denial signals prejudice.

Portland State University

10:50 am PDT, May 25, Paul Grohman, New York
I am disgusted by the scapegoating of professors who stand up and express their opinions about Israel. I would think that distinguished places of learning such as the universities involved should relish the freedom of expression we have in this country. We need to defend the right to express opinions that everybody may not agree with, and the debates that can stem from them. America was not formed on the basis of everybody agreeing to everything, and this has made us a stronger and freer nation. Why stop now?

7:41 am PDT, May 25, Name not displayed, New York

4:31 pm PDT, May 24, Rick Kuhn, Australia

8:37 am PDT, May 23, Natalie Sowinski, New Jersey
TCNJ

8:21 am PDT, May 23, Daniel Enden, New Jersey

8:09 pm PDT, May 22, Andrew Kaplan, New Jersey
there is no justification for Dr. Rao's denial of tenure