Newsletter

January 2014

More rejections for ASA’s boycott of Israel

A
complete list of universities that have publicly rejected the ASA’s boycott can
be found below. (Note from SAFS Newsletter editor: Links to the listed
universities’ letters can be accessed on SAFS online posting of this item in the
January 2014 Newsletter.

• American University (President Cornelius M. Kerwin)
• Birmingham Southern College (President Charles C. Krulak)
• Boston University (President Robert A. Brown)
• Bowdoin College (President Barry Mills)
• Brandeis University (President Frederick M. Lawrence)
• Brown University (President Christina Hull Paxton)
• Case Western Reserve University (President Barbara R. Snyder)
• Cornell University (President David Skorton)
• Dickinson College (President Nancy Roseman)
• Duke University (President Richard H. Brodhead)
• Florida International University (President Mark B. Rosenberg)
• George Washington University (President Steven Knapp)
• Hamilton College (President Joan Hinde Stewart)
• Harvard University (President Drew Gilpin Faust)
• Haverford College (President Daniel Weiss)
• Indiana University (President Michael McRobbie)
• Johns Hopkins University (President Ronald Joel Daniels)
• Kenyon College (President Sean M. Decatur)
• Lehigh University (President Alice P. Gast)
• Michigan State University (President Lou Anna K. Simon)
• Middlebury College (President Ron Liebowitz)
• New York University (President John Sexton)
• Northwestern University (President Morton O. Schapiro)
• Ohio State University (President Joseph A. Alutto)
• Princeton University (President Christopher L. Eisgruber)
• Purdue University (President Mitch Daniels)
• Rhode Island College (President Nancy Carriuolo)
• Rutgers University (President Robert Barchi)
• Smith College (President Kathleen McCartney)
• Stanford University (President John L. Hennessy)
• Trinity College (President James F. Jones, Jr.)
• Tufts University (President Anthony P. Monaco)
• Tulane University (President Scott S. Cowen)
• University of Alabama (Chancellor Robert E. Witt)
• University of California, Irvine (Chancellor Michael V. Drake)
• University of California, San Diego (Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla)
• University of Chicago (President Robert J. Zimmer)
• University of Cincinnati (President Santa J. Ono)
• University of Connecticut (President Susan Herbst)
• University of Delaware (President Patrick T. Harker)
• University of Kansas (Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little)
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County (President Freeman Hrabowski)
• University of Maryland, College Park (President Wallace D. Loh)
• University of Miami (President Donna E. Shalala)
• University of Michigan (President Mary Sue Coleman)
• University of Pennsylvania (President Amy Gutmann)
• University of Pittsburgh (Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg)
• University of Southern California (President C. L. Max Nikias)
• University of Texas, Austin (President William C. Powers)
• Washington University in St. Louis (Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton)
• Wesleyan University (President Michael S. Roth)
• Willamette University (President Stephen Thorsett)
• Yale University (President Peter Salovey)
• Yeshiva University (President Richard M. Joel)

In addition, the following institutions’ American Studies programs have
withdrawn their membership in the American Studies Association (ASA) following last week’s boycott vote

Furthermore, the following institutions have flatly denied being institutional
members of the ASA, though the organization lists them as such:

• Brown University
• Hamilton College
• Northwestern University
• Temple University
• Trinity College
• Tufts University
• University of Alabama
• Willamette University

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San Diego Jewish World, January 1, 2014. http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/12/27/more-rejections-for-asas-academic-boycott-of-israel/.