Colleagues,
I also got a virtually identical reply. Not at all encouraging.
Pól.
Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh, MRIA, FRHistS,
Dean of the Faculty of Arts,
University of Ulster.
Tel: +44 28 7032 4517.
On 4 Nov 2010, at 14:11, "David Wells" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> The following is the text of a letter I have just received in
> response to mine.
> Regrettably, this is less encouraging than the response of the
> University of
> Toronto to protests about its cuts.
> It would be interesting to know if others have had the same, or a
> similar, reply.
> Best wishes
> David Wells
>
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>
> Faculty of Arts
> Office of the Dean
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>
> Faculty of Arts, 3-5 Woodland Road
> Bristol BS8 1TB
> Telephone: +44 (0)117 33 17349
> Fax: +44 (0)117 33 17469
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> web-address: http://www.bris.ac.uk/
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>
> Thursday 4th November 2010
>
> Dear Professor Wells
>
> Thank you for your email of 30 October.
>
> We are all aware of the significant challenges our sector faces and
> Bristol is not
> immune. The University needs to make savings both in academic and
> support
> staff costs and these are shared across the Institution.
>
> In terms of the Arts Faculty, reduction of posts is happening in all
> three Schools,
> mostly through routine retirements and voluntary severance or early
> retirements.
> Across this we are, of course, ensuring we take a strategic view to
> ensure future
> viability of programmes and the University is absolutely committed
> to the long-
> term future of the School and all of its subjects. This is a very
> important point to
> make when one sees other universities reducing their modern languages
> programmes by up to half.
>
> The proposal is to disinvest from the Medieval/Early Modern research
> component in German. This would align with our research strengths
> which focus
> on the later periods. As an academic and as Dean of the Faculty,
> these are
> proposals that I find personally hard but unfortunately necessary.
>
> I would like to thank you for your email and the spirit in which it
> was sent.
> These are very challenging times for our sector and all of us, I am
> sure, would
> wish that these difficult and unpalatable proposals did not need to
> be made.
>
> Yours sincerely
>
>
> Charles Martindale
>
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