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!
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> I will send a letter and certainly agree that the various organizations should make a formal response.
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> All best,
> Dena
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> Dena Bain Taylor, PhD, ARCT,
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> 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]]
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> 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.
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> On 03/13/15, Margaret Procter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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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