[mova] Jobs w/ tenure aren't what they used to be, was [Fwd: Re: [SEELANGS] Language programs terminated at SUNY-Albany]

[Max Pyziur]

>From one of the articles cited below:
Disappearing Languages at Albany
"October 4, 2010
The State University of New York at Albany's motto is "the world within
reach." But language faculty members are questioning the university's
commitment to such a vision after being told Friday that the university
was ending all admissions to programs in French, Italian, Russian and
classics, leaving only Spanish left in the language department once
current students graduate. The theater department is also being
eliminated.

...

Ten tenured faculty members in language programs were told Friday that
they would have two years of employment in which to help current students
finish their degrees, but that they would then be out of their jobs,
according to several who were at the meeting. About 20 adjuncts and
several others on the tenure track but not tenured are also at risk of
losing their jobs, potentially even earlier, although details are not
available."

fyi,

MP
pyz at brama.com



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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Language programs terminated at SUNY-Albany
From:    "Alina Israeli" <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
Date:    Wed, October 6, 2010 10:08 am
To:      SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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Here is an article on this subject:
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Cuts-hit-home-in-any-language-687791.php
And one more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/10/04/albany

Oct 2, 2010, × 3:25 PM, Ernest Sjogren ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ(Á):

> M. Levitt,
>
> How may we disseminate this?  My brother, who is a NY state
> resident, voting district near Albany, would like to write his
> congresswoman about this, not in favor of the cuts, of course. He
> asks if he may forward Prof. Bowles' letter (w/ the correction of
> "senoir" to "senior").
>
> Ernie Sjogren
>
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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