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
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> 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
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> 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
>>
>>
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>> ----------------
>>
>> 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-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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