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[Apr. 29th, 2010|11:01 pm] |
Closure of the Philosophy Department at Middlesex University (London)
PLEASE ACT NOW TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, STOP UNIVERSITIES TURNING INTO CORPORATIONS.
More info on the background and development of this insane decision:
http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/index.asp
Please sign the online petition at:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-middlesex-philosophy.html
If you are on Facebook, join the support group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119102561449990
And if you care about the future of education enough, read the letter below and write to the managers who took the decision:
A letter from Peter Hallward, one of the members of staff at MDX
I regret to say that Middlesex University has just decided, rather abruptly, to close all its Philosophy programmes and to shut down our Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (http://www.web.mdx.ac.uk/crmep/; staff include Eric Alliez, Peter Hallward, Mark Kelly, Christian Kerslake, Peter Osborne and Stella Sandford). Some members of the Centre may be laid off more or less immediately, and some will remain temporarily, to teach out the programmes.
As you might expect we're scrambling to put together a response, and to begin with we're asking colleagues and friends to send a brief email or letter about the closure to the University administrators who have made this unexpected decision. If you have time to write such a message, please feel free to extract some points from a draft letter that a few of our most recent collaborators will be sending later today to Times Higher Education, below.
The four people to write to are as follows:
Vice-Chancellor of the University, Michael Driscoll, m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk;
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise, Waqar Ahmad, w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk;
Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, Margaret House, m.house@mdx.ac.uk;
Dean of the School of Arts & Education, Ed Esche, e.esche@mdx.ac.uk.
(The full set of emails is then: m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk; w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk; m.house@mdx.ac.uk; e.esche@mdx.ac.uk).
If you are able to send this sort of message, and are willing for your message to be posted subsequently on a campaign website or blog, please copy or blind-copy (BCC) it to our campaign email, savemdxphil@gmail.com.
Although it may already be too late to save Philosophy at Middlesex, some decisive action now may help protect other vulnerable subjects at the University, and in the UK more generally. It's been very encouraging, over the course of today, to receive dozens of messages of support and solidarity. |
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Tā bija mana universitāte - pat tad (pirms 20 gadiem) bija spiediens tādā corporate virzienā. | |
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