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Dear colleagues in #cdnpse #onpse: some thoughts on the decimation of Laurentian University & what it means for the future of #highered. A thread, even with a few bad joke attempts.💔 1
#FundLU #HumansofLU #SaveLaurentian #OnPoli #cdnpoli
#FundLU #HumansofLU #SaveLaurentian #OnPoli #cdnpoli
The story: LU filed for creditor protection in Feb, via the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act—CCAA. Doing it this way bypasses annoying collective agreements.🤯 Decisions about massive restructuring are instead made by judges & a court-appointed monitor, here Ernst & Young. 2
The fallout: yesterday 110 faculty members terminated; 60 programs axed, mostly in Arts. But most PSE jobs are staff. The impact on Sudbury and the northern Ontario region is hard to calculate. LU provided essential services & training; it was a foundation of the local economy. 3
Toronto Start Editiorial: "Getting research grants to study wildlife in Algonquin Park, permafrost near Hudson Bay or homelessness in northwestern Ontario can’t be easy for professors and graduate students in the first place." #onpse @ocufa @CAUT_ACPPU
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"To then find out that those funds have been misappropriated by their university to pay its own bills is a crushing betrayal."
"Laurentian University applied for credit protection last month and staff and students have learned that the university co-mingled research grants with general revenues. And the Sudbury institution was so broke it used that research money to pay salaries and keep the lights on."
So administration at Laurentian University used Tri-Council research funds to pay the bills.
This is happens after decades of systemic underfunding of public education and @fordnation @RossRomanoSSM say it has nothing to do with them.
I have some thoughts. A thread.
This is happens after decades of systemic underfunding of public education and @fordnation @RossRomanoSSM say it has nothing to do with them.
I have some thoughts. A thread.
Ross Romano @RossRomanoSSM, Minister of Training, Colleges, and University, knew about the financial issues at @LaurentianU MONTHS go. Did not then and is doing nothing now.
FIVE of LU’s board members are appointed by the provincial government.
This didn’t come out of nowhere.
FIVE of LU’s board members are appointed by the provincial government.
This didn’t come out of nowhere.
“BUT DEREK IT’S BECAUSE PROFS LIKE YOU MAKE SO MUCH MONEY!!!”
Sure, I’ll concede some profs have great, well-paying, secure jobs. But you seem to be missing something here:
Sure, I’ll concede some profs have great, well-paying, secure jobs. But you seem to be missing something here:
The many hats I wear as a PhD candidate, a grant-funded Indigenous health researcher, and a sessional faculty @LaurentianU have taken me on some amazing adventures! Visiting Nations across the province! #HumansofLU #FundLU 1/5
Each adventure contributing to my growth and development personally and academically. Many made possible only my the dedication of senior-level Indigenous faculty who opened doors to make it possible! #HumansofLU #FundLU 2/5
From one end of the province to the other... 3/5
1/7 I keep scrolling through my Twitter-feed hoping to see something that expresses how I’m feeling about the @LaurentianU insolvency ...and really, I guess I kinda wanna talk about it a bit... #HumansofLU
2/7 I started as an Undergrad student @LaurentianU 10 years ago. I feel a deep connection to the university for all of growing I have done as an academic, as a professional, as a person, and as a mother #HumansofLU #FundLU
3/7 My kids have watched me grow up as a student @LaurentianU at the same time I watched them grow too. Amy here, my oldest, was only 3 when I started @ LU... and here she is today, all grown up and graduating this year from grade 8 #HumansofLU #futurehumansofLU #FundLU
You know, I've been at Laurentian a while. I completed my Bachelor's degree there, my Master's degree there, and am now several years into my PhD. Why do I keep coming back, you might ask?
1. Convenience for students living in the north.
2. Thriving queer community.
3. FACULTY.
1. Convenience for students living in the north.
2. Thriving queer community.
3. FACULTY.
The first point is especially important when you consider how many students come from working class families and do not even quality for the necessary financial aid (OSAP, scholarships) to cover fees like residence at other schools. We need a university for local students.
LU, due in great part to amazing individuals like @DeanD_LU and groups like @PrideLaurentian and the Sexual and Gender Diversity Committee, boasts one of the most queer-friendly university campuses in Ontario. If we lose LU, we lose that support for queer students.
I've been thinking a lot about the situation unfolding at @LaurentianU and how the fall out will affect students like I once was: arts students, not from Northern Ontario, not there to study science or engineering or any similar program.
#FundLU #HumansofLU @lufappul
#FundLU #HumansofLU @lufappul
Coming from Toronto, I chose to attend a small school in the North because I wanted a different education experience. I wanted profs to know me by name, I wanted to be in small classes where we could focus on the content that resonated with those in the room.
#FundLU #HumansofLU
#FundLU #HumansofLU
There was (and still is) no other English Rhetoric and Media Studies program available in the province. The Communication Studies program was the perfect blend of theory and practical application.
#FundLU #HumansofLU @EnglishLU @HuntingtonU
#FundLU #HumansofLU @EnglishLU @HuntingtonU
