Please Halt Planned Cuts at McMaster
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Members of the McMaster community and university sector are concerned that the proposed restructuring underway at McMaster will hurt students and workers. We call on the McMaster administration to reconsider plans to:
* eliminate low-enrollment courses
* shut down under-funded programs of study
* merge sections of courses, resulting in larger classes and
overburdened faculty
* lay-off more than 200 Sessional Faculty members at McMaster
We believe that the "economic crisis" in which universities (and employers generally) find themselves cannot be resolved by cutting workers and reducing academic quality.
Eliminating Sessional Faculty positions will not solve the budget challenges facing the university, and in fact will cause a deeper crisis at McMaster. Your plans will leave departments understaffed and students facing larger class sizes, fewer course options and a compromised degree.
Please don't shortchange our McMaster students. Please treat McMaster staff with respect. Please halt your planned academic cuts!
* eliminate low-enrollment courses
* shut down under-funded programs of study
* merge sections of courses, resulting in larger classes and
overburdened faculty
* lay-off more than 200 Sessional Faculty members at McMaster
We believe that the "economic crisis" in which universities (and employers generally) find themselves cannot be resolved by cutting workers and reducing academic quality.
Eliminating Sessional Faculty positions will not solve the budget challenges facing the university, and in fact will cause a deeper crisis at McMaster. Your plans will leave departments understaffed and students facing larger class sizes, fewer course options and a compromised degree.
Please don't shortchange our McMaster students. Please treat McMaster staff with respect. Please halt your planned academic cuts!
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500 signatures
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Jaimie Nicoler
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in my four years at McMaster, I have never seen the integrity of academics threatened in such a manner before. Often, the best courses I have ever had were in smaller classes taught by underpaid sessional staff who despite the unfair descrepancies in wage
24 November 2015
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Maximiliano B
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I decided to attend McMaster University for its reputation and quality of education; however, now I feel the quality of education that I am receiving at McMaster will be severly diminished. As a result, I would tell family members and friends to find anot
8 November 2015
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Peter Lfergusonp
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Whereas I recognize the current hard economic situation, I cannot believe the proposed cuts are in the best interests of McMaster University, its reputation, nor the cause of academic freedom.
16 August 2015
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