The graduate art therapy professor was placed on leave last semester after she assigned her class a case study that mentioned violence against Palestinians. With less than three weeks until the start of the fall semester, over 400 members of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) community have resumed their calls for the reinstatement of Savneet Talwar. The professor was abruptly put on leave last spring after one of her class assignments mentioned violence against Palestinian civilians. “Palestinians are real people and violence against Palestinians is a fact.” “I want to emphasize that the actions of the senior administration have seriously threatened academic freedom, due process, and shared governance at SAIC,” Talwar wrote in an email to Hyperallergic.