Sentences with phrase «student occupiers»

Several faculty members joined the student occupiers at a joint press conference.

FOCU's petition echoed the arguments put forward by the student occupiers: «The college has illegitimately been made to adopt the policy of tuition as a result of a top - down administrative structure that, from [its] inception, relied on disregarding the voices and contributions of students, faculties, and the community at large in vital decision - making processes.»

Trustee Jeff Gural — who was against the tuition decision and recently gave a million dollar donation to support Cooper Union's free art program for high school students — said as much when he came to visit the student occupiers at Bharucha's office.

The student occupiers have received more than a dozen letters of support from student unions and professors, from around the U.S. and overseas, who have been involved in their own protests against tuition and privatization measures.

In front of the Foundation Building Monday, student occupier Victoria Sobel promised students will continue to show up at every future board meeting.

Not exact matches

A student suggested the school collect paper clips, since during World War II, non-Jewish Norwegians wore paper clips on their lapels to show solidarity with Jewish citizens who were forced by the Nazi occupiers to wear yellow stars.

The «occupiers» who showed up on September 17 (of whom there were 2,000 instead of the called - for 20,000) came from all stripes: students, low - income workers, left - leaning intellectuals.

Early Tuesday morning saw a group of Cooper Union students, many of them freshman, occupy the fourth floor workshop area of the Foundation Building in solidarity with the occupiers in the Peter Cooper Suite.

The occupiers understand their action as part of a multi-national student movement against austerity, debt and the corporatization of education.

That changed in April, when the administration announced that it will begin charging graduate students, and a document leaked to the occupiers shows undergraduate tuition for certain programs is under consideration.

Shortly after students occupied the Foundation Building space on Monday, building maintenance attempted to break through an entrance that had been barricaded by the occupiers.

However, Bharucha announced in April of this year that the school would begin charging tuition fees to graduate students, a move which occupiers said was representative of the administration's poor management style.

He said that the occupiers were «totally in solidarity» with students of other universities who have had to assume crushing debt burdens in order to obtain their diplomas.

«We feel that Cooper Union represents the issue of rising tuition costs nationwide, which are endemic,» said Appel, who organizes for the activist group Students for a Free Cooper Union and helps the occupiers liaise with the outside world.

Victoria Sobel, one of the Cooper Union occupiers, told The New York Times students had brought sleeping bags, blankets and ramen noodles and would stay «as long as necessary.»

Yesterday, over sixty students in solidarity with the eleven clock tower occupiers demonstrated outside at the school's board of trustees meeting, where plans for charging tuition were discussed.

«It took me the better part of a year to adjust to the Cooper «style» of organizing,» she adds, «but I continue to learn more about myself as an organizer (and an Organizer) in the process of helping to sustain, with the rest of my classmates and fellow occupiers, a budding student movement.»

Saar Shemesh, a Cooper Union occupier, expressed her and her fellow students» frustration at the board of trustees when they announced the school would start charging tuition.