We need your support: join the alumni boycott!
Sign the pledge to boycott Emerson College until it meets the demands of its students, staff, and faculty.
Dear Aligned Alumni,
Last spring, over 800 alumni signed an open letter to Emerson College calling for justice in Palestine and on campus. A lot has changed since then – but not for the better. Conditions on campus today are more repressive than ever before. Students, staff, and faculty need your support. Will you sign the pledge to boycott Emerson until their demands are met?
This August, the College cut key community-serving programs; issued lay-offs targeting anti-Zionist staff; and decimated the scope of free speech and protest on campus. Find a more detailed write-up of what’s been happening at Emerson here.
We are counting on you to pressure the College to listen to its community. Commit to not donating to Emerson College or appearing at official events until the College meets student, faculty, and staff demands:
Reverse recent policy and code of conduct updates, especially the new protest policies;
Reinvest in the Bright Lights Film Series;
Freeze hiring of new police personnel and rehire the staff they laid off in August;
Drop charges against students for speaking out;
Establish contract-bound institutional decision-making and administration oversight power to panels of elected student, faculty, staff, and alumni;
Disclose Emerson’s investments: as prospective donors, we have a right to know where our money is going;
Use Emerson’s public platforms to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo against Israel;
Create an inclusive environment by offering five annual Emerson College fellowships for Palestinians and create at least one permanent tenure-track professorship position for Palestinian academics or artists.
Over 100 alumni have already signed. Every signature counts. Let’s show students, staff, and faculty that alumni have their back. Sign the pledge today!
In solidarity,
Emerson Alumni for Justice in Palestine
P.S. See what fellow alumni have to say in a WBGH article on the boycott!