[Fdu] Panel Tomorrow: Laurentian and What Can We Do?

[Cynthia Wright]

*Laurentian: What Can We Do?*

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*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*

*_This Friday_* April 16 at 2 p.m. EDT via Zoom (*_register here 
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​On Monday, Laurentian University laid off over one-third of its faculty 
members and cut almost 70**academic programs, including programs that 
support Laurentian’s unique tricultural mandate and directly serve the 
region’s Francophone, Indigenous, working class, and rural communities.

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.

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.

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.

Featuring (confirmed to date)

Nadia Verrelli, Associate Professor of Political Science at Laurentian

Reuben Roth, Associate Professor in the Workplace and Labour Studies 
program in Laurentian's School for Northern and Community Studies

Jennifer Johnson, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department 
of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Thorneloe University at 
Laurentian

With additional comments from

Honor Brabazon, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and 
Legal Studies at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo

Alan Sears, Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at 
Ryerson University

    Honor Brabazon, BA (Hons), MA, DPhil (Oxon)

    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Legal Studies

    St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo

    290 Westmount Road North

    Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G3

    +1 519 884-1111 ext. 28257

    honor.brabazon at uwaterloo.ca <mailto:honor.brabazon at uwaterloo.ca>

    https://www.sju.ca/honor-brabazon <https://www.sju.ca/honor-brabazon>


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