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Coffee Break
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Just a quick reminder that we'll be hosting another Common Coffee Break on Tuesday January 28th at 10AM in the LB Atrium for the SGW crowd. Please note that this one is going to be in the LB building and not the EV building.
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The next Loyola event is slated for February 24th at 10AM in the SP Atrium.
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Don't forget to bring your own mug for extra eco-points!
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ACADEMIC SOLIDARITIES WORKING GROUP
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Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
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TOWN HALL 12-2PM THURSDAY JANUARY 14
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Everyone at the university–faculty, department staff, admin, students–has felt in one way or another the impact of the budget cuts beginning in the 2023-24 school year. We have seen a staff hiring freeze; reductions in the number of full-time faculty; cuts to classes that have left some students without electives and led others to delay the start of their degrees; and the end of popular, low-budget initiatives like the Centre for Creative Reuse. At the same time, community members have been angered by big budget expenditures. There has been an $180k increase to security, a series of high-paying new positions in the Provost's Office, and investments in a School of Health which has no students–not to mention the outstanding and ongoing costs related to Project UNITY’s overhaul of financial systems software. Different community members feel the impact of this in different ways, but the impact is felt widely.
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This inaugural town hall by the Academic Solidarities Working Group will invite participants to discuss how this situation at Concordia–so similar to the situations at universities across Canada and around the world–has impacted them in their work as staff, students, or faculty. We have all experienced barriers to the construction of solidarities within and across our cohorts that might help us to navigate ongoing crises and come out stronger on the other end. How can we overcome these barriers? Topics of discussion will include transparency; collective self-governance; “shock doctrine” politics and the consolidation of power; and the tricky task of transforming critique into workable, efficacious action.
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