Programs in Peril
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The fine folks at UVM’s Classics department asked me to get the word out: Dear Fellow Classicists, We would be very grateful if you sign our petition to reverse the 50% cut to Classics that the University of Vermont has suffered in the last three years. UVM is now undergoing a regime change—influenced in part…
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Excerpts from an item at the Lansing State Journal: Andrew Crocker wasn’t in East Lansing on Friday. He didn’t put on cap and gown along with Michigan State University’s 6,951 other graduates. He was in Dublin, Ohio, where family matters brought him some months ago. His graduation merits notice because it marks an ending. Crocker…
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Sharing an item from Tom Sienkewicz Cuts at the University of Alberta include Classics In a memo dated August 16, 2013, Dean Lesley Cormack of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta announced plans to suspend twenty undergraduate programs and concentrations, with new admissions to be halted immediately. These suspensions are in response…
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This is a different sort of ‘peril’ … they’re not talking about eliminating the department which includes Classics, but relocating it some 280 km away to a place of little reputation, for want of a better term. Here’s where you can sign the petition: Department of Philology – University of Patras: Keep the Department in…
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This one’s potentially confusing as there are two petitions kicking around, one in Russian: Против обвального сокращения бюджетных мест на филологическом факультете СПбГУ … and one in English (which, according to Boris Kaiatchev in the Classics International Facebook group, is specifically aimed at folks outside of Russia because one of the criteria affecting all this…
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