Dear Graduates, Budget cuts impact you, the college and the tuition you pay. You may wish to attend the meeting noted below to discuss these issues. Dr. Franklin OU community to discuss the university’'s mission and future on January 29 Dear Colleagues and Students, Ohio University anticipates cuts to its annual budget over the next two years of at least $30M, an amount equivalent to the cumulative annual budgets of the Departments of English, Math, Chemistry, Physics, Political Science, History, and Economics; or, if you prefer, cuts equivalent to the combined annual budgets of the Colleges of Engineering and Communication. If these cuts are merely distributed across the board as has been done in the past, they will cripple our already threadbare academic units and may plunge the university into a spiral of declining quality and declining enrollment. It would be easy for us to cynically assume that there is nothing faculty can do to defend our core mission, but that is not true. Students, faculty, administrative personnel, and other staff can unite to reassert the centrality of the academic mission and insist that the budget be reframed to protect that mission To that end, we invite you to a candid and constructive public discussion THIS FRIDAY 2:00-4:00 in Walter 135. This event is being organized by a variety of faculty members and students and formally sponsored by Faculty Senate, AAUP, Student Senate, and FutureOU. The discussion will be moderated by Geoff Buckley of Geography and Robert Leary, Student Senate President. We expect to fill Walter 135 and perhaps to open a second room in Walter for overflow audience. Please clear your schedule and come. Please email your colleagues and urge them to join you. Please announce the meeting in your classes and email your students, urging them to attend. It’s that important. If we don’t very quickly develop consensus support for our core mission, we will spend the rest of our careers wishing we had. For further information about the event and to RSVP, please click the following link to the event as posted for faculty on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261427801558&index=1 < http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261427801558&index=1 >. On the Facebook page, particularly note the following: 1) A ten-minute video previewing the introduction to the meeting by Steve Hays (Classics and World Relgions). The video will give you a sense of the tone and purpose of the meeting. 2) The RSVP section in the right margin. Please indicate whether or not you plan to attend. Come even if you don’t RSVP, but we’d like some sense of how many people to expect. The Student Senate has set up a separate Facebook page to announce the event to students: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=449745845053&index=1 < http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=449745845053&index=1 >. Already over 100 students have indicated their intention to attend. *You can copy this link and include it in an email to your students*. It contains most of the same information the faculty page does. Please don’t surrender to cynicism. Good thinking and principled resolution have changed things in the past, and they still can. Other people did it in the past for us. Now it’s up to us. Let’s make future generations of OU students and faculty proud of us. See you Friday at 2:00, Steve Hays, Classics and World Religions *_Attached to this message_* are the following: 1) an advertising flyer that you can print out and distribute to friends and colleagues as you urge them to attend; and 2) a letter to the editor from Bernhard Debatin (Journalism) that should appear in tomorrow’s A-News, announcing and explaining the event. -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Dr. Teresa Franklin Associate Professor Instructional Technology Educational Studies Dept. 313D McCracken Hall College of Education Ohio University PH: 740-593-4561 Fax: 740-593-0477 franklit at ohio.edu @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/itech/attachments/20100128/aae5839f/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: flyer_final2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 153356 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/itech/attachments/20100128/aae5839f/attachment-0002.pdf -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Letter_to_ANews.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 76855 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/itech/attachments/20100128/aae5839f/attachment-0003.pdf
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