hello lovely tumblr users, I am here to ask that you take a moment of your time to look at this petition!
This is a petition to save Faculty positions at our school.
The petition describes the situation much better than I can, but some added info from someone who is seeing this happen in real time is that the administration of the college I attend is effectively firing up to 8 interim faculty members as we speak.
For a college this small, that is an unbelievable amount of faculty to lose. The majority of the interim faculty members that are at risk or have already lost their jobs devoted an unprecedented amount of physical and emotional labor towards making the college run during the pandemic, and for many that meant they were signed on for an extra two years than normal in order to help our college stay on its feet.
It is typical for interim (hence the name) faculty to only be with the college for a short time, but due to outstanding circumstances (the pandemic) they have become quite literally pillars of their respective departments, and of those I personally know and work with, the heart and soul of the college.
Losing them would destroy the stability of our school, and our school is making it unusually hard for these faculty members to reapply as either part-time faculty members or full-time core faculty members.
This all comes down to the fact that our administration has stated that they believe the individuals teaching the class do not make a difference in the students quality of education, only the curriculum.
Anyone on here who has had a bad professor, or a really truly good one, knows that is entirely, unequivocally, undeniably, not true.
The administration states that this was a "financial decision" (mind you our college is in the top 10 most expensive colleges in the state) and it is blatantly obvious they want to hire new part-time faculty members simply because it is cheaper to do so.
It may save money to fire the interim faculty now in the short run, but the loss of these faculty members that are now considerably less likely to be rehired will end up costing the college more money in the long run due to the instability caused by this decision.
So, I humbly ask, for the sake of my education and that of hundreds of other wonderful artists, please sign this petition and show our administration that you can't just treat educators like shit and get away with it.
