To the Board of Regents,

The students of Georgia Tech are dismayed by the selection of Angel Cabrera as our next university president. Dr. Cabrera has demonstrated a lack of empathy and understanding towards gender and sexual minority students and survivors of sexual assault by allowing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, accused of multiple accounts of sexual misconduct, to be hired as a professor at Cabrera’s current institution, George Mason University.

We, the undersigned, believe that Angel Cabrera’s hiring of Justice Kavanaugh and subsequent refusal to fire him despite student backlash demonstrates that he is unfit for the role of Georgia Tech president due to his evident lack of compassion, empathy, and understanding for survivors of sexual assault and for gender and sexual minority students and an unwillingness to listen to or cooperate with students. Furthermore, we believe that hiring Dr. Cabrera to be the next Georgia Tech president would
Signal disinterest for gender and sexual minority issues at Georgia Tech by the University System of Georgia, the Board of Regents, and the Georgia Tech administration, on a campus which already suffers from a lack of gender diversity,
Perpetuate the cycle of ethics violations and administration turnover which began under former President Bud Peterson,
Condone rape culture within the Georgia Tech community,
Damage the already fraught relationship between students and administration,
Constitute a direct attack on students’ Title IX protections for which the University System of Georgia, the Board of Regents, and the institute may be held legally accountable.

We urge the Board of Regents to reconsider their selection of Angel Cabrera and to cancel his appointment as the next president of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

*Due to the sensitive nature of sexual harassment and assault, we have allowed students and alumni to sign as “Anonymous,” along with their major and year in school or graduating year.

Example: Anonymous, Mechanical Engineering, 2018