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From: IVORY::KKINZL "Konrad H. Kinzl" 24-NOV-1997 20:33:02.37
To: CLASSICAL_BULLETIN
CC: KKINZL
Subj: CCB/BCEA 4, Release/special/Bulletin no. 3
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C A N A D I A N C L A S S I C A L
B U L L E T I N
C A N A D I E N D E S E T U D E S A N C I E N N E S
VOLUME/TOME 4,
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SPECIAL RELEASE NO. 3 / BULLETIN SPECIAL NO 3,
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1997 11 24
Published by e-mail by the Classical Association of Canada/
Publie par courrier electronique par la
societe canadienne des etudes classiques
President: A. Daviault, Universite Laval
ANDRE.DAVIAULT@LIT.ULAVAL.CA
Secretary/Secretaire: I.M. Cohen, Mount Allison University
ICOHEN@MTA.CA
Treasurer/Tresorier: C. Cooper, University of Winnipeg
CRAIG.COOPER@UWINNIPEG.CA
Edited by/redige par
K.H. Kinzl, Trent University
KKINZL@TRENTU.CA
http://www.trentu.ca/cac/ ISSN 1198-9149
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EDITOR'S REMARK:
With apologies to subscribers to CLASSICS-CANADA who have already seen this
(but who may wish to consider the matter again), I forward a message from a
colleague in Trent's Department of Modern Languages (German) who forwards a
message from a colleague at Carleton. You may recall that in the case of
Ottawa in 1995, letters influenced the administration (who proclaimed
outrage at the letters writing campaign) at least to a small degree
(according to John Yardley, your past president). I ought to mention that
I have not been contacted by members of the Classics Department at Carleton
and do not know their thinking. KHK
> From: IN%"AKRUGER@trentu.ca" 24-NOV-1997 17:57:52.37
> Subj: Dept. Closures at Carleton
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The following departments are being proposed for closure by the president
> of Carleton University as of May 1, 1998 (not a typo!) and the decision
> will be made in a special closed Senate Executive meeting on
> Wednesday, Nov. 26 and the final vote on each department will be taken in a
> closed Senate meeting on November 28, 1997:
> Mathematics, Statistics, Comp. Lit,
>
>
> CLASSICS, [my emphasis, KHK]
>
>
> Spanish, Italian, Russian and German
>
> If you are concerned about these developments please read the following
> message from my colleague and do not hesitate to raise your voice.
>
> Arndt A. Kruger
> Chair, German Studies
> Trent University
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 19:31:21 -0500 (EST)
> From: Arnd Bohm
> To: cautg@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca
> Cc: arnd_bohm@carleton.ca
> Subject: Short version
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> This is a short version of a longer text which I have already sent
> but has not yet been distributed by the server.
> On Thursday, Nov. 20, the Dean of Arts and Social
> Sciences convened a meeting of the School of Languages, Literatures and
> Comparative Literary Studies to announce that he would recommend to Senate
> the closure of all our graduate and
> undergraduate programs in: German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Comparative
> Literature and Classics.
> The reason given was financial: we are too expensive because the
> total enrolments are small. Without going into details, I assure you that
> not only were the Dean's figures false, but that we are quite normal in
> student numbers when compared across Canada and the USA. Despite declining
> Arts enrolments, we have held steady. But no numbers we produce have any
> impact. Our MA program has appraised well with the Ontario Council of
> Graduate Studies; academic quality is not the argument being used against
> us.
> To give you an idea of the "reasoning" at work, here is a
> quotation from the Ottawa Citizen, based on a press conference President
> Van Loon held Nov. 20:
> "The cuts must be made and job losses are inevitable he [Van Loon]
> said. `We can't play around with smoke and mirrors.' Some teachers who
> lose full-time jobs could return as sessional instructors, who will play a
> larger part in teaching at the university. This would be a big cost
> saving, Mr. Van Loon said, since a sessional instructor is paid $7,000 to
> teach one course, while a tenured professor making $70,000 a year might
> teach two courses."
> Because of a special clause in our collective agreement, the
> closure of this program would mean that all 22 full-time faculty can be
> declared redundant and laid off as of May 1, 1998, even though they have
> tenure. Includes me, folks. Our faculty association feels that this could
> be the test of a new model for reorganizing Ontario universities: close
> individual programs and thereby circumvent tenure.
> The Dean and Vice-President (Academic) are convinced that closing
> the language and literature programs (including Classics!) will not have
> negative consequences for Carleton's image. I
> hope and believe that the German unit at Carleton has a good reputation
> out there. If you could communicate that, as well as anything about how
> such sweeping cuts might be seen across Canada in relation to Carleton's
> image, it would be a help.
> Because of the postal strike, and because the Senate will make its
> decision on November 28 (they moved the date ahead from Dec. 5!) I would
> ask you to fax or e-mail the following people directly and immediately:
> Dr. Richard Van Loon
> President
> Carleton University
> fax: 613 520-4474
> email: richard_van_loon@carleton.ca
>
> Dr. J. W. ApSimon
> Vice-President (Research and External)
> Carleton University
> fax: 613 520-2689
> email: john_apsimon@carleton.ca
>
> Dr. G.S. Adam
> Vice-President (Academic)
> Carleton University
> fax: 613 520-2536
> email: stuart_adam@carleton.ca
>
> Dr. R.C. Blockley
> Dean of Graduate Studies
> Carleton University
> fax: 613 520-4049
> email: roger_blockley@carleton.ca
>
> If you email, add me to the
> list of addresses and I will forward copies to the other members of
> Senate:
> arnd_bohm@carleton.ca
>
> Please give this appeal wide
> distribution. Many thanks, and best wishes, Arnd Bohm
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