2 December 2024
Student Solidarity with SAIC NTT Faculty

Two years of unprecedented administrative obstruction means it’s time for unprecedented action!

SAIC’s Non-Tenure Track (NTT) faculty (more than 80% of our instructors) are facing the possibility of playing their strongest bargaining chip: a strike, or work stoppage. Sign on below to pledge your confidence in our NTT faculty members to exercise their right to withhold work as a way of showing their power at the bargaining table! Solidarity with faculty now!

(Answers to all your strike-related questions can be found at bit.ly/ntt-faq.)

This fight will be inherently inconvenient and disruptive. Striking can bring up feelings of anger, frustration, and discontent – as it should! There is so much within this institution to be angry about! Channel that with intention. Don’t fault the practice of striking, but the administrative stonewalling that forced this action to occur. Your professors’ working conditions are your learning conditions. No class doesn’t mean your education is over.

The act of protesting is an education in itself—it teaches you the truth of your own values and the reality of what needs to change.

NTT faculty are overworked, underpaid, and undervalued despite being the driving force behind all our cherished parts of SAIC. NTT faculty have supported us unconditionally, and SAIC exploits this devotion. We must reciprocate the care that our faculty show us and echo their demands by supporting their strike preparations.

We, the undersigned students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, echo our faculty’s call for fair treatment, support their right to exercise their power via striking, and are prepared to stand alongside them as long as it takes to win.

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  1. Nao Goldstein, SAIC student
  2. Marley Lyon, Student, Trans Artist Coalition (TAC), Chicago
  3. Bennett Hixson, SAIC Student, Chicago
  4. Joey Maben, student, student worker, Chicago
  5. Eddy Barber-Rozema, Saic Student, Chicago
  6. Eglė Malinauskaitė, student, Radical Public Health (UIC), Chicago
  7. Sophie Glueck, Student, SAIC, Chicago
  8. Marium Asif, Grad Student/ Student Worker, SAIC, Chicago
  9. piper snowber, student, SAIC
  10. Syd Ross, Grad Student, SAIC, Chicago
  11. Janet Lee, SAIC student, chicago
  12. Benjamin Glass, Grad Student/ Student Worker, SAIC AT/SP, Chicago
  13. Joel Jarquin, Student, SAIC, Chicago
  14. Jane Hawk, SAIC student, Chicago
  15. David, student, SAIC, chicago
  16. Abigail Buzbee, Student, BFA Studio/VisCrit, SAIC, SAIC, Chicago
  17. Ahnali Tran, Student, SAIC, Chicago
  18. Rosa Lee, Student, SAIC
  19. jayie chou, student, SAIC, Chicago
  20. Clark Kinney, Student, SAIC, Chicago
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  1. Parker C, SAIC student, chicago
  2. Phia Hammersley, SAIC Student, Chicago
  3. sue-yi chan, SAIC student
  4. Na young Yi, Student, SAIC, Chicago
  5. Elena Whitwam, Student, SAIC, Chicago
  6. Ben Bellwoar, SAIC alum, Chicago
  7. Julia Fetters, Alumni, SAIC
  8. Natalie Krause, Interior Designer, SAIC Alum 2020, Los Angeles
  9. Mari Herzberg, SAIC student, Chicago
  10. Loken Lee, Artist, SAIC Alum, Los Angeles
  11. Danny Miller, Retired, SAIC, Chicago
  12. maizie xiola, SAIC, Chicago
  13. Lee Bernstein, SAIC student, Chicago
  14. Laura Wei
  15. Theresa Landi, Student, SAIC, Chicago
  16. Xiaoyi, SAIC Student
  17. Wilson Boetticher, student, SAIC
  18. Judy Malloy, Lecturer, SAIC
  19. Julia asherman, SAIC alumni, Rag & Frass Farm, Jeffersonville
  20. Zeynep Naz Sakar, student, SAIC, Chicago