Purple and Poor: Welcome to Western University

We are the students, staff members, teaching assistants, and part-time professors at Western University. We believe the institution's preferred narrative of ‘the best student experience’ should be juxtaposed with the Western experience as it actually exists: labour exploitation, high tuition fees, squandered resources, and incompetent, disrespectful leadership. If you'd like to contribute, submit your story to this Tumblr, or, tweet it using #purpleandpoor #since1878.

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FIMSGA: A Letter of Solidarity in Support of UWOFA

This is a letter of solidarity written by members of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies General Assembly (FIMSGA) in support of the contract goals proposed by The University of Western On...

Undergraduate students at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies have written an open letter in support of UWOFA's upcoming negotiations with Western's central administration. Wonderfully, they highlight the plight of the university's most vulnerable workers, and stand with us in our fight for job security and fair compensation.

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Post-residency fee demonstration held at BOG meeting - The Gazette

Graduate students staged a day of action protesting Western’s lack of post-residency fees outside Western’s Board of Governor’s meeting on Thursday. Students holding placards silently lined the hall on the way into the meeting on the fourth floor of Stevenson Hall, similar to January’s Senate meeting. They were there to advocate for post-residency fees, which [&hellip

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Purple and Poor: The Real Western Experience

The following article appeared in OPENWIDE Volume 14 Issue 5. It was written by PhD candidate Eric Lohman and FIMS part-time Professor Warren Steele. Eric Lohman is a PhD candidate, lecturer, and o...

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