One year after 10 students faced disciplinary hearings for their participation in the pro-Palestine encampment or occupation of the Institute of Politics building, faculty remain concerned about a lack of transparency in the University’s disruptive conduct disciplinary processes.
Protests over UCMed’s lack of a Level I adult trauma center beginning in 2010 resulted in student arrests and misconduct by an undercover UCPD officer, forcing the University to reevaluate its protest policies and how it communicates them to students.
As Vietnam War protests raged on campus during the late 1960s, University administrators constructed a new program of discipline that avoided involving Chicago police or the courts.
Although all of the students received their degrees, some students and professors have alleged misconduct by the University throughout the proceedings.
UCUP is organizing a rally during convocation to protest the University withholding degrees from students currently involved in the “Disciplinary System for Disruptive Conduct.” The students' cases will not have been resolved before graduation on June 1.
