>Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:41:36 -0600 >From: Education for Democracy Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Education for Democracy Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Urgent: Petition to Save Institute for Labor Studies at UMKC > >[CM] > >PETITION TO RESTORE FULL FUNDING FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES >(ILS) AT UMKC > >TO: Guy Bailey, Chancellor UMKC > Karen Vorst, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences UMKC > >SPONSORED BY: UMKC chapter of the American Association of University >Professors (AAUP) > >BACKGROUND: Although ILS was given a short reprieve, it is still slated >for termination. Please sign the petition to insure it has a future. > > The current civilian labor force in the United States numbers over >153,000,000 people. Labor studies is the only academic discipline that >focuses on the conditions and needs of that workforce and the history of >working people. > In the summer of 2007 UMKC announced it was closing the Institute >for Labor Studies by defunding it. ILS is the only labor education >program between Columbia, MO and Albuquerque, NM. ILS provides crucial >services to our community and educates working people about their >rights, for example, through credit and non-credit courses, conferences, >and the weekly radio show, Heartland Labor Forum, on Community Radio >KKFI 90.1 FM. > We the undersigned, recognizing the value of labor education, >particularly at a time of outsourcing and continuing attacks on unions >and our standard of living, strongly urge UMKC to restore full funding >for the Institute of Labor Studies. > Robert Scott Gassler, PhD Professor of Economics, Vesalius College at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy, University of Kent at Brussels Brussels, Belgium
>----------------------------------------------------------------- > >TO SIGN THIS PETITION: > >1) Above or below the petition, type in: > a) your name > b) your Academic/Organizational Affiliation (if any) > c) your city and state. > >2) Click on "Reply" to this e-mail (send to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY TO OTHER PEOPLE AND YOUR NETWORKS. > >Many thanks to all those who wrote the Chancellor in response to our >earlier appeal. And many thanks in advance for your help with this >petition. > >Patricia Brodsky >David Brodsky > >----- End forwarded message ----- > >-- >Michael Perelman >Economics Department >California State University >Chico, CA 95929 > >Tel. 530-898-5321 >E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu >michaelperelman.wordpress.com > >
