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Cornell Professors Overwhelmingly Reject China Partnership
Faculty senate votes 39-16 against Peking University partnership
Yuichiro Kakutani • April 1, 2021 5:30 pm
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Cornell University professors voted overwhelmingly to reject the university s proposal for a joint degree program bankrolled by the Chinese government.
The Cornell faculty senate rejected a resolution endorsing a partnership with Peking University on Wednesday, citing the authoritarian regime 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 s plans to push forward with the China partnership paid for by the Chinese Ministry of Education.