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What Can We Do?</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span
style="color:#212121">A panel and open discussion
on what is happening at Laurentian, why we should be
concerned, and what we can do about it as members of
other university communities</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><u><span
style="color:#212121">This Friday</span></u></b><span
style="color:#212121"> April 16 at 2 p.m. EDT via Zoom (<b><u>register <a
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbAvOCXGQAJoNKqAZBKutl7JvXo-yvlDGIV4WX1JvTdOCxpQ/viewform?usp=sf_link"
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#212121">On Monday, Laurentian University
laid off over one-third of its faculty members and cut
almost 70<b> </b>academic programs, including programs
that support Laurentian’s unique tricultural mandate and
directly serve the region’s Francophone, Indigenous,
working class, and rural communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="color:#212121">The gutting of Laurentian
University will be devastating for its students,
faculty, and staff, for the city of Sudbury, and for
northern Ontario, and it sets very dangerous precedents
for what can happen at other universities in the
province and beyond. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#212121">This panel will discuss what
happened at Laurentian, situating it in the context of
the broader reframing and restructuring of public
research and education over the past several decades,
which has touched all of our universities and threatens
to fundamentally change the work we do. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#212121">Following the panel, we will have
an open discussion on what we as grassroots members of
other university communities can do to support the
Laurentian community in its fight against this
restructuring. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#212121">Nadia Verrelli, Associate
Professor of Political Science at Laurentian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#212121">Reuben Roth, Associate Professor </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">in
the Workplace and Labour Studies program in Laurentian's
School for Northern and Community Studies</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#212121">Jennifer Johnson, </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">Associate
Professor and Chair of the Department of Women's,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Thorneloe University at
Laurentian</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">Honor
Brabazon, Assistant Professor in the Department of
Sociology and Legal Studies at St. Jerome’s University
in the University of Waterloo</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">Alan
Sears, Professor and Chair of the Department of
Sociology at Ryerson University</span><span
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