Theresa and Išve sent to a similar notes to the CWCA listserve saying just
this. I feel that CASLL, CASDW, and CWCA/ACCR should write separate and
joint letters.
Brian
Brian Hotson, MTS
Director, Writing Centre
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Saint Mary's University,
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On 2015-03-13, 11:19 AM, "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-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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