Hi Margaret. I applaud your move. I've Tweeted and posted a link to Emmie's letter on my Twitter account. I think individual letters as well as a group CASDW, and CWCA letter might be a good idea. Cheers, Theresa.
On 03/13/15, Margaret Procter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Inkshed colleagues:
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> I'm shocked to learn that Wilfrid Laurier University has just terminated the position of its writing-centre manager Boba Samuels. She was told on Tuesday that her position was redundant and immediately escorted off-campus, along with several other staff members in other university positions.
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> The former (and now retired) manager Emmy Misser wrote a scathing letter to a Waterloo newspaper asking the university's president to explain this decision: http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/5474412-an-essential-service/.
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> Emmy encourages other people in the writing-studies community outside Laurier to let the administration know that we value writing-centre work and deplore this cut. She notes that the service is a highly efficient small operation: "An attack on writing is fundamentally an anti-intellectual move. Is that what Laurier now is about?"
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> The contact page for WLU senior administration is http://wlu.ca/about/senior-leadership/index.html, and a link at the bottom of the page leads to a Faculty and Staff Directory with a search function for email addresses. I'm going to write the president Dr. Max Blouw myself, and hope many others will join me.
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> Should CASLL as an organization also take this up?
>
> Margaret Procter
> (retired) University of Toronto
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