An Open Letter to the Michigan Tech Campus Community

In this historical moment, we as Michigan Tech faculty want to reaffirm our commitment to the vision and mission of this university. We stand by a vision of Tech as a global institution that promotes a shared world in which justice, sustainability, and prosperity are real possibilities for everyone. We find inspiration in our students and hope to inspire them in turn to create this future. We commit ourselves to addressing the challenges of our country and the world through innovative, interdisciplinary, and engaged scholarship, research, and educational practices that give every student and every teacher abundant opportunities to learn. In all aspects of our roles as Michigan Tech faculty, we support mutual respect, inclusivity, and dialogue and we seek to sustain a culture of collegiality, safety, support, and openness across diverse perspectives, traditions, and identities.

Signed,

Names –  Affiliation (Department or Unit)

Sarah A. Green – Chemistry

Nancy Langston – Department of Social Sciences and School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Diane Shoos    –  Humanities

Patricia Sotirin –  Humanities

Ann Brady       –    Humanities

Stephanie Carpenter   –   Humanities

Kelly Boyer Ontl – Social Sciences

Faith A. Morrison        –   Chemical Engineering

Josh Loar      –        Visual and Performing Arts

Noel Urban      –   Civil & Environmental Engineering

Susanna Peters  –  Social Science

Kathy Halvorsen           –    Social Sciences/School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences

Carol MacLennan        –     Social sciences

David Watkins –  Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lynn Mazzoleni – Department of Chemistry

Libby Meyer    –   VPA

Scott Marratto  – Humanities

Richelle L Winkler       –     Social Sciences

Claudio Mazzoleni       –    Physics

Carlos M. Amador         –  Humanities

Shari Stockero –  Cognitive and Learning Sciences/Mathematical Sciences

Susan Amato-Henderson     –         Cognitive and Learning Sciences

Kelly Steelman – Cognitive and Learning Sciences

Michele Miller –  Mechanical Engineering

Dany Jacob     –    Humanities

Adam Feltz      –    Cognitive and Learning Sciences

Craig Waddell  –  Humanities

Bill De Herder   –  Humanities/Multiliteracies Center

Audrey Mayer  –  Social Sciences/School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Judith Perlinger – Civil & Environmental Engineering

Timothy Havens        –       Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Elizabeth Flynn, Professor Emerita      –      Department of Humanities

Syd M Johnson  – Humanities

John S Gierke   – Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Amy Lark         –     Cognitive and Learning Sciences

Andrew J. Storer      –         School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Patricia Heiden  – Department of Chemistry

Patricia Butler  –  School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Norma Veurink  – Engineering Fundamentals

Jonathan Robins         –      Social Sciences

Simon Carn     –    Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

Lanrong Bi       –    Chemistry

Kristen Schmitt   – School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences

Rebecca Ong   –   Chemical Engineering

Timothy Scarlett          –     Social Sciences

Linda Ott         –     College of Sciences and Arts/Computer Science

Alexandra Morrison     –   Humanities

Amber Kemppainen   –    Engineering Fundamentals

Marilyn Cooper – Humanities

Nancy Barr    –      Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

Sam Sweitz     –    Social Sciences

Bartley Seigel – Humanities

Carl Blair          –    Social Sciences

Molly Cavaleri   –  School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Don Lafreniere  – Social Sciences

Dana Van Kooy – Humanities

Hugh Gorman   –  Social Sciences

Roger Held       –   Visual and Performing Arts

David Flaspohler     –          Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Joseph Bump  –   School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Chelsea Schelly – Social Sciences

Matthew Kelly –   School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Erin Smith      –     Humanities

Gretchen Hein  – Engineering Fundamentals

LouAnn Wurst –  Social Sciences

Susan Martin (ret.)    –      Social Sciences

Steven A. Walton      –       Social Sciences

James M. DeGraff      –      Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Jess Portfleet  –   Visual and Performing Arts

Rod Chimner   –   School of Forest Reseources and Environmental Science

Lisa Gordillo    –   Visual and Performing Arts

Kari B Henquinet       –       Peace Corps Master’s International and Pavlis Honors College

Oliver Gailing   – Forestry

Tara L Bal          –  School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Casey Huckins  –  Biological Sciences

Alex Mayer     –    Civil & Environmental Engineering/Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences

Ron Strickland  – Humanities

Sigrid Resh     –     School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences

Victoria Bergvall     –           Humanities

Rick Buis       –       Canterbury House

Amlan Mukherjee      –     Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jim Baker    –         Pavlis Honors College

Veronica L. Webster   –    Civil & Environmental Engineering

Martin Jurgensen     –       Forestry

Ida Fonkoue   –    Biological Sciences

Brenda Gail Bergman   –  School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences / Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences

Jennifer Daryl Slack     –    Department of Humanities

Lorelle Meadows      –       Dean, Pavlis Honors College

Emily Betterly  –  Biological Sciences

Sue Collins       –    Humanities

Leonard Bohmann      –     Electrical and Computer Engineering

Charles Young   –  Prof. Emeritus

Ann L Maclean –  SFRES

Erika Hersch-Green    –     Biological Sciences

Brigitte Morin  –  Biological Sciences

Caryn Heldt     –   Chemical Engineering

Glenn Mroz    –    President

Jacqueline Huntoon    –    Provost

Adrienne Minerick       –    Chemical Engineering

Guy Meadows  –  Great Lakes Research Center

Evie Johnson   –   Humanities

Curtis B. Edspn  – School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Randall R. Freisinger   –    Emeritus Professor, Humanities

Ossama Abdelkhalik   –     Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Amy Marcarelli –  Biological Sciences

Robert R. Johnson      –     Humanities

Eric A. Seagren –  Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jennifer Becker –  Civil and Environmental Engineering

Shiyue Fang    –    Chemistry

Thomas Werner       –         Department of Biological Sciences

Jon Sticklen    –     Engineering Fundamentals

Rolf Peterson   –  School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences

Amy E Monte –   Engineering Fundamentals

David R. Shonnard     –      Chemical Engineering  and SFI

Ravindra Pandey       –       Physics

Will Cantrell   –    Physics

Jessie Knowlton – School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

M.C. Friedrich  –  Visual & Performing Arts

Dana Richter   –   Forestry

Orhan Soykan  –  Biomedical Engineering

Marika Seigel   –  Humanities

Karla Saari Kitalong    –      Humanities

Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval, Emerita        –         Humanities, Emerita

Jacek Borysow  – Physics

Anna Loar      –      Visual and Performing Arts

Thomas Oommen        –    GMES

Paul van Susante       –       Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics

Kathryn A. Perrine       –    Department of Chemistry

Cary Chabalowski       –      Department of Chemistry

Ramon Fonkoue      –         Humanities

Trish Helsel       –  Visual and Performing Arts

Anne Beffel    –    Visual and Performing Arts

John Gershenson          –   Mechanical Engineering

Amy Schrank   –   School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences

David F Nitz   –     Physics

Brian Fick       –      Physics

Charles Wallace – Computer Science

Dieter Adolphs  – Department of Humanities

Yvette Dickinson      –         School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences

Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon    –    Cognitive and Learning Sciences; Computer Science

John A Vucetich – School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

George Hommowun  –     Visual and Performing Arts

Laura Kasson Fiss      –        Humanities, Pavlis Honors College

Pasi Lautala     –    Civil and environmemtal engineering

Latha Poonamallee      –   School of Business and Economics & Center for Social Innovation

Susanta Ghosh, Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics

Jeremy Bos      –   Electrical and Computer Engineering

Robert Nemiroff         –      Physics

Jared Anderson  – Visual and Performing Arts

Scott Kuhl       –     Computer Science

Marcelino Viera – Humanities

John B Lehman – Enrollment and University Relations

Roger Kieckhafer        –      ECE

Robert Pastel   –  Computer Science

Mike Christianson        –    Visual and Performing Arts

Joseph Shannon         –      School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences

Ibrahim Miskioglu     –       ME-EM

Suzanne Beske Diehl    –   Geological Sciences and Engineering

Jimmy F Diehl  –  Geological & Mining Engrg & Sciences

Jean Mayo       –   Computer Science

Laura Brown    –   Computer Science

Latika Gupta   –   School of Business and Economics

Jodie Paakola   –  School of Business and Economics