Note: I am pleased to say that this section has already provided me ( Annie) with opportunity. I was in a bit of a sticky situation with an event I have coming up and posting in this section allowed me to talk to a fellow feminist in the area who is now going to help my organization with the lack of supplies we have!
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Hello Friends,
ReplyDeleteThe administration at Florida Atlantic University is attempting to take advantage of the economic recession in order to dissolve the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, department, and M.A. program at FAU.
You can help by signing the online petition at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveFAU/
We would greatly appreciate if you could spread the petition as widely as possible. I have already sent out e-mails with a link to the petition to the WMST-L (Women's Studies Listserv), QStudy-L (Queer Studies Listserv), VALUWomen Listserv (A list for feminist activism), and the femptheoryqueer listserv (A listserv for queer and feminist theory). If you're a member of any other listserv that it would be appropriate to send the petition to please do so. Spread it in anyway possible, but try not to double-post (so we don't look like annoying spammers). For this reason, if you do spread the word please send me a brief e-mail letting me know where you sent it.
we question the validity of the FAU administration's rationale for proposing this unjust suspension. When the total money allocated to "Education" in FAU's last published budget (2006-2007) is $239, 949, 841.00 and the Women's Studies Center and M.A. program (at an operating cost of $60,000) only account for a total .00025% of that budget, we must question whether or not "budget cuts" are an adequate explanation of the administrations decision. Both the President's salary and Athletics departments' budget have increased over the past year. From our perspective, the university has chosen its priorities; These priorities represent an inexcusable attack on all women in and out of the academy. At a university where the average salary of a male professor is $16, 000.00 higher than the average salary of a female professor, how else are we to interpret the proposed suspension of the Women's Studies Center and M.A. program than as an attack on women?
Thank you for your help,
Ben