I agree, Doug.
I also mentioned this on the CWCA list - that all three associations present separate and joint letters.
Theresa is drafting a CWCA letter.
I would be willing to help with a joint letter.
Brian
Brian Hotson, MTS
Director, Writing Centre
Burke 115,
Saint Mary's University,
Halifax, NS B3H 3C3
Direct: 902.491.6201
Main: 902.491.6202
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Sent: March 14, 2015 2:40 PM
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Subject: Re: protest about Wilfrid Laurier termination
I agree with all that's been said.
Perhaps a separate letter from CASLL and CASDW would be more effective than one combined letter. As Russ notes, it's very possible that this administration is beyond persuasion on the matter, but we certainly shouldn't let it happen without a fight.
Boba, what are the larger effects -- is the entire writing centre being dissolved, and if so, how many other people (grad students, sessionals, or whoever else does the actual tutoring) are affected? How many students per year does (did) the center serve? We will need to be sure of our facts before we write.
Doug
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Sent: March 13, 2015 10:29 AM
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Subject: Re: protest about Wilfrid Laurier termination
I strongly support the idea that CASLL should have a co-signed statement about this and would want to volunteer to help write it. Boba does terrific, terrific work and makes a real difference on the WLU campus, and this sort of treatment is unacceptable.
Jay
Jay Dolmage, Ph.D
Editor, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies Associate Professor of English University of Waterloo Department of English Hagey Hall of Humanities Building Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 10:19 AM
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Subject: Fwd: protest about Wilfrid Laurier termination
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-service/.
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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