Content deleted Content added
not yet merged |
Sentence made it ambiguous if Leslie Grinage was suspended or evicted. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
| (27 intermediate revisions by 11 users not shown) | |||
Line 2:
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Laura Rosenbury
| image =
| office = 9th President of [[Barnard College]]
| term_start = July 1, 2023
Line 12 ⟶ 13:
| predecessor1 = [[Robert Jerry]]
| successor1 = [[Merritt McAlister]]
| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|53|2023|3|9}}
| birth_place = [[South Bend, Indiana]], U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| education = [[Radcliffe College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Harvard University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
}}
'''Laura Ann Rosenbury''' (born 1969/1970)<ref>https://barnard.edu/news/barnard-college-names-distinguished-scholar-laura-rosenbury-ninth-president-elect</ref> is an American legal scholar who is the ninth president of [[Barnard College]].
Rosenbury served as President of Barnard College during the [[2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation]] and oversaw the suspension and evictions of at least 55 Barnard students.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 20, 2024 |title=Barnard Suspends and Evicts Over 50 Students |url=https://thebarnardbulletin.com/2024/04/20/barnard-suspends-and-evicts-over-50-students/ |website=}}</ref>
==Education and career==
Rosenbury grew up in [[Elkhart, Indiana]], before moving to [[Rye, New York]]. Rosenbury graduated from [[Radcliffe College]] of [[Harvard University]] with a B.A. in women’s studies in 1992 and earned her J.D. from [[Harvard Law School]] in 1997, where she was an editor of the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''. She then moved to New York and clerked for Judge [[Carol
Rosenbury taught at [[Fordham Law]] before moving in 2002 to [[Washington University School of Law]]. Rosenbury was the vice dean at the School of Law from 2010 to 2012 and served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School.<ref name="NY Times Announcement" />
In 2015, Rosenbury was appointed at the first full-time woman Dean of the UF Levin College of Law.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schweers |first1=Jeff |title=Rosenbury brings feminist perspective to role of law dean |url=https://www.ocala.com/story/news/local/2015/08/16/rosenbury-brings-feminist-perspective-to-role-of-law-dean/31962658007/ |access-date=5 January 2024 |work=The Star Banner |date=15 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Stripling |first1=Jack |title=As U. of Florida Law Dean Calls Out Sexism, Her Rankings-Driven Regime Comes Under Fire |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/as-u-of-florida-law-dean-calls-out-sexism-her-rankings-driven-regime-comes-under-fire/ |access-date=5 January 2024 |date=12 October 2016}}</ref> Rosenbury was elected to the American Law Institute in 2010 and was named a fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2014. In her tenure as Dean of the UF Levin College of Law, Rosenbury played a role in efforts by Florida Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] to block professors at the university from testifying in or joining onto amicus briefs in cases against the state.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Inside the Academic-Freedom Crisis that Roiled Florida's Flagship |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/inside-the-academic-freedom-crisis-that-roiled-floridas-flagship}}</ref> These efforts were struck down by order of a federal judge.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Case No.: 1:21cv184-MW/GRJ|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-flnd-1_21-cv-00184/pdf/USCOURTS-flnd-1_21-cv-00184-0.pdf}}</ref> In addition, faculty criticized her tenure as dean, with more than half "claiming that the school [was] not a fair work environment."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Patrice |first=Joe |date=2020-02-21 |title=Law School Dean 'Does Not Lead; She Bullies And Berates' Say Faculty Commenters - Above the Law |url=https://abovethelaw.com/2020/02/law-school-dean-does-not-lead-she-bullies-and-berates-say-faculty-commenters/ |access-date=2024-04-21 |language=en-US}}</ref> === President of Barnard College ===
She began her tenure as President of Barnard College on June 12, 2023,<ref>{{Cite web |title=President Laura Rosenbury {{!}} Barnard College |url=https://barnard.edu/president-laura-rosenbury |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=barnard.edu}}</ref> and was officially inaugurated at a ceremony on February 2, 2024 at [[Riverside Church]].<ref name="Chakravarthy">{{Cite web |last=Chakravarthy |first=Apurva |title=Rosenbury inaugurated as ninth Barnard president against backdrop of protesters |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/02/02/rosenbury-inaugurated-as-ninth-barnard-president-against-backdrop-of-protesters/ |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref> The event drew protesters following calls by pro-Palestinian student groups for a [[boycott]] of the ceremony.<ref name="Chakravarthy"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Splaver |first=Gabriella Gregor |title=In Focus: Rosenbury gets inaugurated, protests ensue |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/photo-essays/2024/02/05/in-focus-rosenbury-gets-inaugurated-protests-ensue/ |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Otterman |first=Sharon |last2=Bensimon |first2=Olivia |date=2024-02-06 |title=Columbia Limited Campus Protests, So Students Took to the Streets |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/nyregion/columbia-campus-protests-streets-police.html |access-date=2024-03-13 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
A week and a half after the start of the [[2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation]], and the suspensions of at least 55 Barnard students, the Barnard College chapter of the [[American Association of University Professors]] unanimously issued a vote of "no confidence" in Rosenbury, by a vote of 102 to 0.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Stahl |first=Maya |title=Barnard AAUP chapter unanimously issues vote of ‘no confidence’ in Rosenbury |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/27/barnard-aaup-chapter-unanimously-issues-vote-of-no-confidence-in-rosenbury/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Barnard Faculty Members of the AAUP Unanimously Vote to Issue a Statement Of “No Confidence” in President Rosenbury – Barnard Bulletin |url=https://thebarnardbulletin.com/2024/04/27/barnard-faculty-members-of-the-aaup-unanimously-vote-to-issue-a-statement-of-no-confidence-in-president-rosenbury/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=thebarnardbulletin.com}}</ref> One week later, on April 30, 2024, over 77 percent of the entire Barnard faculty issued a vote of "no confidence" in Rosenbury, in a vote 228 for and 56 against and a number of students marked the occasion with a "Vote of No Confidence Picnic”.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Robertson |first=Nick |date=2024-05-01 |title=Barnard president loses vote of no confidence as criticism mounts over protest response |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4634350-barnard-president-loses-vote-of-no-confidence-palestine-protest-response/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}}</ref> It was the first time in the college's history that a president had been given a vote of no confidence.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stahl |first=Maya |title=Barnard faculty pass vote of no confidence in Rosenbury, first recorded instance in college history |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/30/barnard-faculty-pass-vote-of-no-confidence-in-rosenbury-first-recorded-instance-in-college-history/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref>
==References==
| |||