Dear CGF members,
Thanks to Jo and Christine for the clarification of issues relating to the impending closure of the Women's Studies Centre at Exeter University.
The issues appear to be quite complex. Nonetheless, I still believe that it may be useful to circulate a petition for CGF members to append their names to if they wish. Accordingly, please find below a copy of the petition sent by Christine.
For those who wish to 'sign' it, please copy the petition below, add your name and address and forward a copy to me via private e-mail. I will collate the 'signatures' and forward them to Christine Duff.
Best wishes,
Lawrence
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PETITION
Women's Studies at the University of Exeter
The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Exeter will close on 30 September 1999 unless recent University management decisions are revised.
The Centre's programme consists of research degrees and a taught M.A. in Women's Studies; a weekly Network Seminar Series run by postgraduate students; additional classes, lectures, and day conferences; an annual Reading event; innovative developments in on-line workshops; and presentations by visiting scholars and writers.
This is a coherent, overall programme -- capable, given support, of generating and developing links between the academic, commercial, domestic and workplace concerns of women in the University, in the City of Exeter, in the region, and beyond. It is also the only Women's Studies programme in the University; and the only programme following women-led educational practice.
We request Sir Geoffrey Holland, Vice-Chancellor:
€ to suspend the decision to close the Centre;
€ to convene an open forum for discussing the academic and financial issues relevant to the Centre's programme; and
€ to set up a public review of institutional sexism in the University.
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