Yes. WLUFA has info on its website. They are responding.
Jane
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From: casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning (Inkshed) <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Russ Hunt <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 4:31:33 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: protest about Wilfrid Laurier termination
Stupid, short-sighted and brutal, yes . . . but a larger problem
than just the writing centre. Check out this article:
http://tinyurl.com/ncyuqec
We can write, but it's clear this administration has the bit in
its teeth. Is WLU unionized?
-- Russ
> The termination is stupid and short-sighted and the way it was
> done, brutal. I'll be saying as much in my letter and strongly
> support all our organizations writing letters. If I can help with
> that, let me know. And all my thoughts to Boba.
>
> ~Amanda Goldrick-Jones
> Writing Services Coordinator
> Simon Fraser University / Student Learning Commons
> ======
>
> > On Mar 13, 2015, at 07:56, Patricia Patchet-Golubev
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Margaret for letting us know about this. I will send a
> > letter and think that an organizational response is also a good
> > idea.
> >
> > Patricia Patchet-Golubev
> > Director
> > Trinity College Writing Centre
> > From: casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language
> > and Learning (Inkshed) [[log in to unmask]] on behalf
> > of Sarah King [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, March 13,
> > 2015 10:49 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re:
> > protest about Wilfrid Laurier termination
> >
> > This is indeed shocking. I too will send a letter and support
> > formal organizations doing so. Sarah King, PhD UTSC Writing
> > Centre Coordinator
> >
> >> On Mar 13, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Dena Taylor
> >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you for disseminating this awful news, Margaret. What a
> >> shock it is to see how Boba's excellent work--and the work of
> >> writing centres in general--is so terribly undervalued!
> >>
> >> I will send a letter and certainly agree that the various
> >> organizations should make a formal response.
> >>
> >> All best,
> >> Dena
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----------------
> >>
> >> Dena Bain Taylor, PhD, ARCT,
> >> Director,
> >> Health Sciences Writing Centre,
> >> University of Toronto,
> >> 55 Harbord Street,
> >> Toronto, Ontario,
> >> M5S 2W6 Canada.
> >> www.hswriting.ca
> >>
> >> Consult "Writing in the Health Sciences: a comprehensive
> >> guide" at
> >> http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/hswriting/index From:
> >> casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and
> >> Learning (Inkshed) [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of
> >> Theresa Hyland [[log in to unmask]] Sent: March-13-15 10:40
> >> AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Fwd: protest
> >> about Wilfrid Laurier termination
> >>
> >> 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:
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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-s
> >>> ervice/.
> >>>
> >>> 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?"
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> Should CASLL as an organization also take this up?
> >>>
> >>> Margaret Procter
> >>> (retired) University of Toronto
> >>>
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> >> Theresa Hyland, MA, EdD
> >> Director, Writing and Cross-cultural Services
> >>
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> >> 1349 Western Rd.
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