On Thursday, March 5, 2020, the first meeting of the Network of Academic Solidarity and Engagement with colleagues from the University of Ni\u0161 was held in the large hall of the Faculty of Philosophy in Ni\u0161. The assembled colleagues were addressed by Dr. Galjina Ognjanov, Dr. Vladan \u010coki\u0107 and Dr. Dalibor Petrovi\u0107, members of the Mass Coordination Committee, as well as Dr. Ivana Spasi\u0107, a member of the Mass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The members of the Coordination Board introduced their colleagues from Nis to the reasons for starting the Mass, the basic principles and methods of operation of this organization, as well as the activities that have been carried out in the past months. As a specific reason for convening the meeting, the need to expand Mass beyond the University of Belgrade was highlighted, since the problems faced by the academic community in Serbia are not exclusively related to it and cannot be solved without the support of colleagues from other universities throughout Serbia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Colleagues from Nis welcomed the establishment of Mass, pointing out that there has been a need for the formation of such an organization for years. The problems faced by colleagues from Ni\u0161 are largely universal for the entire academic space in Serbia, from the arrogance of certain faculty deans in Ni\u0161 to disturbed interpersonal relationships. As one of the current problems, it was highlighted that recently, without any public discussion and in a completely non-transparent procedure, at the session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, the University of Belgrade was declared a University of national importance. In this way, in their opinion, the work of other universities in Serbia was completely underestimated, which were not only not informed about this initiative, but were never presented with the criteria on the basis of which the University of Belgrade received this prestigious status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The meeting was also attended by a colleague, Dr. Biljana Aran\u0111elovi\u0107 from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Ni\u0161, who, although she met the legal requirements for election to the title of associate professor in 2014, was elected to the title of assistant professor for the third time in 2019. Colleague Aran\u0111elovi\u0107 thanked Masa for her help in getting her case to the local media, which before that largely ignored her requests to inform the public in Nis about this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was concluded that there are significant reasons for the establishment of the Masa branch in Ni\u0161 and it was agreed that Dr. Nemanja Krsti\u0107 will coordinate the activities so that it is established as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The representatives of Masa emphasized that they will continue to fight on behalf of the members of the academic community for the preservation of the autonomy of the university, the right to express a critical opinion, the cultivation of solidarity, expertise, honesty, transparency and social responsibility, regardless of possible obstacles and being ignored by decision-makers. guided by the slogan "smarter does not give in", which was proposed by one of the present colleagues from the University of Ni\u0161.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
U \u010detvrtak 5. marta 2020. godine u velikoj sali Filozofskog fakulteta u Ni\u0161u odr\u017ean je prvi sastanak Mre\u017ee akademske solidarnosti i anga\u017eovanosti sa koleginicama i kolegama sa Univerziteta u Ni\u0161u. Okupljenim kolegama obratili su se dr Galjina Ognjanov, dr Vladan \u010coki\u0107 i dr Dalibor Petrovi\u0107, \u010dlanovi Koordinacionog odbora Mase, kao i dr Ivana Spasi\u0107, \u010dlanica […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademska-masa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}