{"id":370627,"date":"2021-04-01T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T21:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=370627"},"modified":"2021-04-01T17:45:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T21:45:37","slug":"cornell-professors-overwhelmingly-reject-china-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cornell-professors-overwhelmingly-reject-china-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornell Professors Overwhelmingly Reject China Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcornell-professors-overwhelmingly-reject-china-partnership%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=370627&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-960.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cornell University professors voted overwhelmingly to reject the university&#8217;s proposal for a joint degree program bankrolled by the Chinese government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cornell faculty senate rejected a resolution endorsing a partnership with Peking University on Wednesday, citing the authoritarian regime&#8217;s human rights abuses, as well as its threats to academic freedom. The non-binding resolution failed in a 16-39 vote with 20 abstentions. The sizable opposition to the resolution complicates the university&#8217;s plans to push forward with the China partnership paid for by the Chinese Ministry of Education.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Campus<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/cornell-professors-overwhelmingly-reject-china-partnership\/\"><strong>Cornell Professors Overwhelmingly Reject China Partnership<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/communist-radical-angela-davis-speaks-at-elite-california-school\/\"><strong>Marxist Angela Davis Calls on Students at Pricey California School to \u2018Dismantle Capitalism&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/christian-university-ditches-crusader-mascot\/\"><strong>Christian University Ditches Crusader Mascot<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The growing faculty opposition is part of a society-wide reckoning about the lucrative relationship between America&#8217;s elite universities and China. For decades, Cornell and other top-tier American universities established numerous programs and partnerships in China that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/organizations-linked-to-chinese-military-are-a-cash-cow-for-american-colleges\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raised<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hundreds of millions of dollars. But as the Chinese government&#8217;s repression grows more severe, some professors worry their institutions value lucrative relationships more than their moral principles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Richard Bensel, a government professor leading the charge against the partnership, said Cornell&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/cornell-stonewalls-faculty-complaints-over-china-partnership\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">staunch refusal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to recognize any Chinese human rights abuses, including the genocide of Muslim Uighurs, is a &#8220;total abdication of moral responsibility.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The central administration is much more revenue conscious, much more materialistic than it was five years ago,&#8221; Bensel told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Free Beacon. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It basically in many ways has just abandoned some of the moral and ethical concerns that a great university should have.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cornell professors are not alone in their disapproval. Cornell student leaders unanimously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/cornell-students-call-to-stop-new-china-partnership\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">voted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to demand a &#8220;halt&#8221; to the Peking University partnership, a sign that the faculty discontent is spilling over into the student body. And across the country, more than 100 academics and professors <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/professors-call-for-transparency-in-colleges-ties-to-china\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">signed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;a letter urging Western universities to fully disclose their China ties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The successful campaign against the Peking University partnership has emboldened professors, who are pushing for more sweeping changes. Both Bensel and Joanie Mackowski, an English department faculty member, have introduced new resolutions that will strengthen the role of the faculty senate in deciding future partnerships with not just China but all authoritarian countries. Electronic voting for those resolutions will finish on April 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;What we don&#8217;t want is a superficial revision just to pacify people,&#8221; said Mackowski.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not all professors are gung-ho about curtailing the university&#8217;s ties to China. Computer science professor Ken Birman said that his father, also a professor, was able to help Soviet refuseniks get visas to leave their oppressive regimes because he had strong academic ties across the Iron Curtain. He said Cornell could &#8220;lose leverage that lets us help people who are in difficult situations&#8221; if it abandons programs in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other faculty members defended the Chinese government. Communications professor Connie Yuan rejected the genocide designation for China&#8217;s crackdown against Muslim Uighurs as &#8220;quite misleading.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Lot of professors in Cornell thought this was a humanitarian disaster, and they came to the defense of Uighur Muslims,&#8221; Yuan said. &#8220;I understand their good intentions, but it seems to me an exaggerated reality or misinformation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cornell faculty senate will reconvene in mid-April, where they will likely discuss additional legislation to rein in Cornell&#8217;s ties abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell University professors voted overwhelmingly to reject the university&#8217;s proposal for a joint degree program bankrolled by the Chinese government. 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