The following appeared on the Stop BC Library Cuts website today, after an communiqué from the provincial government: On August 20, 2009 the Province of British Columbia announced that the provincial dollars to support public libraries would be $13,700,000, which is about 78% of previous years. While this represents a reduction, the libraries of BC [...]
Archives for sfu community coalition
envision education / get involved with the university community
“envision education” A community-led visioning workshop – creating a new vision for our university What is this event? “envision education” is a community-led visioning workshop that brings together members of the university community to develop a plan for our university. Community resistance to cutbacks, budget reductions, layoffs, and program elimination is met with two general [...]
death by a thousand cuts? / briefly analysing the sfu budget
I promised (a while ago) to analyze the SFU budget that will be proposed tomorrow morning at the Board of Governors‘ Finance Committee meeting. You can grab a PDF copy of the budget (here) and page through it, if you’d like, and I’ll try to make references to page numbers as I make my analyses. [...]