>From: "Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:54:01 +0100
>Subject: (Fwd) Save the Institute of Sociology in Berlin
>
>Dear friends of sociology,
>
>What this is about:
>As a result of the Berlin government’s plans to drastically reduce
>spending for education, the president of the Freie Universität
>proposes to reduce the number of professorships in sociology from
>currently 6 to 1. This would mean closing the Department of Sociology
>and terminating the diploma-degree in sociology at the Freie
>Universität Berlin despite a permanently increasing number of
>applying students and a growing need for social science in a radically
>changing society.
>
>As students, employees and faculty, but above all as involved
>sociologists
>we demand that the department of sociology can continue its work as a
>successful institution of teaching and research. How you can help us:
>Our immediate aim is to underline the importance and value of
>sociology both in the university and in society so that the
>President of the University and decision makers in the Academic Senate
>and the Curatorium withdraw current plans to shut down the Department
>. For this we need your support.
>
>We sincerely ask you to share our concern and to oppose the removal of
>our discipline from a major German university. If you fill in the form
>below, we can name you as a supporter of our open letter (which you
>can find under http://www.phonem.net/sozio) to the president of our
>university and to those responsible in Berlin politics. Of course, we
>would also welcome any additional statements or comments supporting
>our case. In addition, we would appreciate it if you could forward
>this email to other interested persons and send a direct comment to
>the president of the Freie Universitaet, Dieter Lenzen, via
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>Thank you very much for your help
>
>Students and faculty of the Department of Sociology, Freie Universität
>Berlin
>
>
>
>------- End of forwarded message -------Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli
>Institut für Soziologie / Institute for Sociology
>Freie Universität Berlin / Free University of Berlin
>Garystr. 55
>D-14195 Berlin, Germany
>
>Tel. +49 30 8385-7653
>Fax +49 30 8385-7652
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