The students say the issue stemmed from an incident on Dec. 8 when they delivered a list of demands to the chair of the School of Social Work.
3:05 PM CDT March 21, 2024AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas at Austin President Jay Hartzell recently dismissed grievances filed by two teaching assistants over work assignments after they sent a pro-Palestine message on a class messaging board in November., Hartzell officially dismissed the complaints from Callie Kennedy and Parham Daghighi in a disposition last week.
The TAs were part of a course called"Women and Madness," which focuses on mental health. They say they sent the message to students over the school's communication portal, Canvas. "We wanted to send a message to acknowledge the mental health implications of the current escalation of violence in Gaza. As your teaching assistants, we feel it is important to be clear that we do not support the university's silence around the suffering many of our students, staff, and faculty are experiencing on campus," the message read in part.
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