Reinstate Professor Bell at Lehman College!
The Issue
As Lehman College students, alumni, staff, faculty, and concerned community members, we are united in supporting Professor Bell’s reinstatement and objecting to her unjust termination. As a professor at Lehman College, she has been a voice to students and has shown support for them during her time. She has mentored students towards post-secondary education, writing letters of recommendation and reviewing application materials, including two Lehman students who were accepted to PhD programs, and three who were accepted to masters programs.
Professor Bell has spent 5 years working at Lehman College as an assistant professor. During her time here, she has:
- Been a Principal Investigator on $333,842 of grant money from the National Science Foundation, and has secured funding to host exhibitions and award prizes for Lehman students' mathematical art
- Brought Lehman students (fully funded) to conferences at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Arizona
- Brought them to Congress to represent Lehman in asking for science funding
- Secured invitations (and travel and lodging funding) for students to co-present alongside Professor Bell at the CUNY graduate center, and at Joint Math Meetings (the largest gathering of mathematicians in the world) in Seattle to an international audience
Professor Bell got her Ph.D. at MIT and always makes an effort to regularly introduce Lehman students to professors and former doctoral students to the community there. She has helped enrolled over a dozen Lehman students in a prestigious virtual school in advanced mathematics where they work on problems alongside students from Harvard, Columbia, Berkeley, and universities from around the world.
She is passionate about giving students the funding, connections, knowledge, platforms, and opportunities they deserve. We believe it would be a loss to the college and the community as a whole to lose her as a professor. We pledge support to have her be reinstated to her position.
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The Issue
As Lehman College students, alumni, staff, faculty, and concerned community members, we are united in supporting Professor Bell’s reinstatement and objecting to her unjust termination. As a professor at Lehman College, she has been a voice to students and has shown support for them during her time. She has mentored students towards post-secondary education, writing letters of recommendation and reviewing application materials, including two Lehman students who were accepted to PhD programs, and three who were accepted to masters programs.
Professor Bell has spent 5 years working at Lehman College as an assistant professor. During her time here, she has:
- Been a Principal Investigator on $333,842 of grant money from the National Science Foundation, and has secured funding to host exhibitions and award prizes for Lehman students' mathematical art
- Brought Lehman students (fully funded) to conferences at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Arizona
- Brought them to Congress to represent Lehman in asking for science funding
- Secured invitations (and travel and lodging funding) for students to co-present alongside Professor Bell at the CUNY graduate center, and at Joint Math Meetings (the largest gathering of mathematicians in the world) in Seattle to an international audience
Professor Bell got her Ph.D. at MIT and always makes an effort to regularly introduce Lehman students to professors and former doctoral students to the community there. She has helped enrolled over a dozen Lehman students in a prestigious virtual school in advanced mathematics where they work on problems alongside students from Harvard, Columbia, Berkeley, and universities from around the world.
She is passionate about giving students the funding, connections, knowledge, platforms, and opportunities they deserve. We believe it would be a loss to the college and the community as a whole to lose her as a professor. We pledge support to have her be reinstated to her position.
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Petition created on October 25, 2026