Dear PNP colleagues,
I thought you would like to know about a terrible development occurring in Ontario, Canada. Premiere Doug Ford has been attacking academia/universities and the latest assault is on Laurentian University. Laurentian University serves unique populations in Ontario's north. Of course, among many programs, Environmental Studies, Women's Studies, and Labour Studies are cut.
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The government's actions are resulting in drastic cuts to programs and faculty layoffs.
Overall, Ontario universities have been markedly underfunded for a long time. We have been experiencing a hollowing out of our university system and now, this government is speeding it up. This is also an attack on tenure and science by this populist and fossil fuel supporting, climate change denying government.
I hope everyone will stand united in support of faculty at Laurentian University and in support of science, academia, and universities in general.
All the best,
Deborah E. de Lange, BASc (Electrical Engineering), CPA, CMA, MBA, PhD
Associate Professor, Global Management Studies, Environmental Applied Science and Management
Ted Rogers School of Management, TRS 1-036
Ryerson University
55 Dundas St. West
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 2C5
Tel. (416) 979-5000 x 557504
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