Several UNC Chapel Hill professors - actual teachers, at a real American university here - have told students they will be purposefully withholding their final grades until the school agrees to re-instates 15 students who were arrested and suspended last week during a pro-Palestine protest.
According to a message that reportedly went out to students Monday, participating professors blasted the school for targeting the “Gaza-solidarity encampment,” claiming it was “peaceful and inclusive” (except for when a bunch of frat guys tried to protect an American flag from being ripped down and replaced with a Palestinian one, only to have water bottles and obscenities lobbed at them for their trouble).
Some of those “peaceful” protesters even broke into academic buildings after hours, ripped down barricades, assaulted police vehicles and other cars, threw furniture at police vehicles resulting in injury, and threw water and liquids on campus staff.
Despite all that, some professors seem to think punishing all their other students for their school not kowtowing to crybabies is the way to go. According to the message, UNC has until May 13 to re-instate the suspended students, or else professors will upload “not reported” grades to official student transcripts for their class.
“On May 13, if the administration has not reinstated the suspended students, you will see a NR (Not Reported) on your transcript,” the message reads.
That “NR” - essentially denying students the grade they earned in a class they paid for - will stay on throughout the following semester.
The message promised to “keep a person record of your grades so that, once the administration meets our demands, the grades you earned will be recorded.”
It's not clear how many professors have backed the message. However, more than 750 faculty and staff at UNC Chapel Hill have signed a petition demanding the school reinstate suspended students.
The Federalists' Sean Davis posted to X that he'd reached out to the school and confirmed the message is real, and that it's being taken seriously by school administrators.
"A university spokesman confirmed to me that UNC students reported these threats to hold grades hostage to UNC administrators," Davis posted. "In response, UNC Provost Chris Clemens and Graduate School Dean Beth Mayer-Davis sent a formal written statement to all university deans and department chairs and said the provost’s office 'will support sanctions' against any instructor or professor who 'is found to have improperly withheld grades.' They also said the threat to hold student grades hostage violates 'our contract with the people of North Carolina' and noted that submitting grades is 'part of the required duties of all faculty and graduate TAs[.]'”
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