WIGS will certainly want to support this and I am happy to write on behalf of the organisation. Let's be in touch. I'd also like to protest as an individual and Edinburgh as a dept, and other members of this list will probably want to, too -- Ian, could you send the entire list the best address to write to, email and postal? I'll forward it to the WIGS mailing list when it arrives.
Lots of good wishes,
Sarah
Professor Sarah Colvin
Mason Chair of German
European Languages and Cultures
University of Edinburgh
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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Finlay [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 September 2009 14:32
To: 'Ian Roberts'; [log in to unmask]
Cc: 'Sarah Colvin'
Subject: RE: Closure
Dear Ian
I was saddened to read your email.
Perhaps you and I might liaise on an appropriate response on behalf of the AGS (formerly CUTG) to your VC in advance of your Senate meeting?
The organization attempted something similar on behalf of colleagues at Belfast not so very long ago, sadly to no avail, and I can imagine that WIGS would want to put its weight behind your campaign, too.
Any detail you can send me relating to the firmer ground of recent years would be useful data and grist to the mill of any argument.
You might also like to liaise with David Robb at Belfast in terms of what might be done locally by way of mobilizing protest, not least amongst your student body.
In haste but with best wishes,
Frank
Professor Frank Finlay, President Association for German Studies (formerly CUTG)
-----Original Message-----
From: JISCmail German Studies List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Roberts
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:40 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Closure
Dear colleagues,
Members of this list will I am sure be disappointed to hear that another UK HE institution is seeking to 'slim down' its language provision in the near future:
management at the University of Leicester have informed me of their intention to cease recruiting to German degrees after the arrival of the 2009/10 intake in a couple of weeks. The department would, consequently, disappear at the end of the 2012/12 academic year.
German at Leicester has been under threat, on and off, for some five years now, but recently we have seen steady growth in applicants (more than doubling our intake since the 2005 nadir) and felt that we were finally moving onto firmer ground.
The proposal will be put to Senate next month, and the whole School of Modern Languages at the University is throwing its weight behind the campaign to save German. If members of the list would like to contribute to this campaign by making their feelings known to the University authorities, I would of course be extremely grateful.
Yours frustratedly,
Ian Roberts
Director of German Studies
School of Modern Languages
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
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