Q&A
Accountability measures for faculty and students in violative conduct
1:58:09
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147 sec
Council Member Dinowitz questions Chancellor Rodriguez about CUNY's implementation of accountability measures for faculty and students involved in violative conduct, as recommended in the Lippman report. The discussion reveals potential gaps in enforcement and conflicting information.
- Dinowitz cites recommendation 9 from the Lippman report regarding accountability for violative conduct.
- Rodriguez claims CUNY has taken disciplinary action against students and staff who crossed the line, including probation and club participation restrictions.
- The exchange highlights ongoing disagreement about the accuracy of reported numbers and the extent of CUNY's disciplinary actions.
Eric Dinowitz
1:58:09
It says those figures don't appear to include CUNY alumni who were also involved in demonstrations, so it was alumni and students and faculty.
1:58:19
One of the recommendations in the report number 9 is to hold faculty and others accountable for violative conduct, but it appears based on this article and on your testimony that as it relates to, I guess, the most visible instance of, we'll just call them, problems on campus.
1:58:43
This at the height of it, destroying property, there are faculty and students are not being held accountable for violative conduct.
1:58:57
Is that not accurate?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:58:59
Well, again, I when documented cases, of student behavior, of staff behavior that crossed the line and are investigated and adjudicated, if, discipline is is the the outcome, we have done that.
1:59:16
We have put students, on probation.
1:59:18
There have been students who've been, kept from participating in clubs based on the things that that they do.
1:59:24
We can provide you examples from from the campuses.
1:59:27
Happy to do that, out in in in the case.
1:59:31
On that breakdown of we fully cooperated with NYPD and the DAs in prosecuting all those things, I'll be happy to give you the breakdown.
1:59:40
There was a lot of misinformation in some of the early press reports about who was and who wasn't part of of CUNY.
Eric Dinowitz
1:59:50
But that means a 100% of this it it was a 100% of the students incorrect.
1:59:54
So you're saying the article is completely wrong?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
2:00:00
Yeah.
2:00:00
Not again, not all the people that vandalized the building that were arrested for that were, CUNY students.
Eric Dinowitz
2:00:08
Even though the article says 88 of them were?
2:00:10
44% of them
Felix Matos Rodriguez
2:00:11
were?
2:00:11
We I don't know where the information came from that article.
2:00:16
I'll be happy to give you the final breakdown.
2:00:19
But also, to your point, right, to your point, which is the most important point, when we have cases in which we are documented that students have crossed the line, that property has been vandalized, all those things, we have taken the the action, and and we do that.
