1) TRANSPARENCY
We demand that the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences release statistical data relating to the enrollment, retention, and performance of students of color in HSS, in relation to other students, for the larger community to make an informed judgement via email by November 9, 2018.

We demand that the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences meetings (curriculum, faculty) and their corresponding agendas be made open and publicly available to all members of the larger Cooper Union community.

We demand that the Cooper Union administration and the three schools of Art, Architecture and Engineering respond directly to this existing issue and release public statements via email by November 9 2018, directed to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with an acknowledgement of this issue as well as commit toward working together effectively to realize the resolutions of these issues.

2) HIRING
We demand that the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences clearly explain the processes and timelines they have set in place for hiring faculty (adjunct, post-doctoral, full-time) and the talent pools from which they have hired exist- ing full-time faculty via email by November 9, 2018.

We demand that the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences demonstrate and explain clearly the attempts that have been made in the past to attract and retain a more diverse set of faculty via email by November 9, 2018.

We demand that the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the administrative body work together to realize more effective hiring practices, that will directly impact issues of visibility that are prominent in the current lack of diverse full time faculty in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

We demand that an extensive and comprehensive search begin for a Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences that will replace our existing Acting Dean, Peter Buckley, with effect immediately.

We demand that students be actively integrated into the hiring process through student representation on the Dean search committee, in voices and votes, that at least match those of non-students on the committee.

3) ACCOUNTABILITY
We demand the administrative body of The Cooper Union publicly recognize and acknowledge that existing channels of feedback and complaints are ineffective through the Office of Student Affairs, with specificity to Title IX.

We demand that the Office of Student Affairs run a comprehensive self-study into all of their existing processes and release to the larger Cooper community an open and publicly available report via email by November 9, 2018 that explains what the Office of Student Affairs has learnt from their self-study, where and why they have fallen short and realistic measures on how to improve the effectiveness of their various processes.

We demand that the administrative body, the three schools of Art, Architecture, and Engineering, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences initiate and continue a conversation about the hiring of an ombudsman, who will serve as a neutral agent outside of The Cooper Union, as a measure of accountability within our community by November 9, 2018.

4) DECOLONIZATION AND RESTRUCTURING
We demand that the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences acknowledge and recognize its responsibility to students to require them to think outside the bounds of eurocentricity in the design of all its course offerings via email by November 9, 2018.

We demand that the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences publicly commit to creation of curricula that are decolonized. This would mean the effective and meaningful insertion of postcolonial readings and thought alongside existing traditional texts.

We demand that the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, urgently address and restructure the standing curricula for HSS 1-4, to provide a collective understanding of literature and history that will include non-Western perspectives, via email by November 9, 2018.

We demand that the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences embrace pedagogical practices that allow and stimulate self- understanding in relation to the texts we will read.