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Danielle Drescher said when she heard her program at Laurentian University had been cut a year ago, “it felt like the world stopped on a dime.”
“These program changes, combined with the recently-announced termination of our agreements with the federated universities, will focus Laurentian’s academic offerings on those programs which are of higher demand,” said a press release issued by Laurentian at the time. Laurentian said at the time it anticipated that approximately 10 per cent of undergraduate students would be affected in some way by these program adjustments, as well as 44 graduate students.Those let go have yet to see any severance money, as this is tied up in Laurentian’s CCAA process. Union officials say they expect those owed money to receive only a small percentage of those funds when Laurentian finally pays out its creditors.
Students and faculty left scrambling To mark the one-year anniversary of “Black Monday,” we decided to catch up with Drescher and others who have been impacted by the cuts to see how they’re doing today. That being said, her tuition has doubled, and for some reason, her OSAP loans got cut in half. “So this year financially has been super stressful,” she said, adding that being from a small town in southwestern Ontario, she also appreciated Laurentian’s nature-filled campus, as opposed to being in the big city.
The affidavit further argued that because the midwifery program is generally regarded as “an expensive program to run , it is difficult for LU to solely rely on grant funding to continue operating the program.” After Laurentian declared insolvency Feb. 1, 2021, Morgan she and her colleagues were “naive” and did not suspect midwifery would be on the chopping block. After a year, she continues to scratch her head.
“There was no recourse. And to make things even worse, because a retroactive pay cut had been approved, my final paycheck was withheld as I owed LU money dating back one year towards the pay cut!” “This all could have been handled so much better with more input from the people delivering the product — the professors. What is an institute of learning without teachers?”
“It just goes to show just how thoughtless those decisions were,” Longobardi said. “You didn’t even dig deep to see which programs are profiting you.” Morale on campus ‘quite low’ As well as speaking to students and faculty, Sudbury.com requested an interview with Laurentian president Robert Haché on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the cuts. That interview was not granted.
“We've seen students like midwifery that had to move to other locations for completing their degrees,” he said. Not only were the cuts to jobs and programs devastating to the Laurentian community, they affect Greater Sudbury as a whole, Colin said, pointing to a prediction of $100 million in economic impacts made last year by a Thunder Bay economist.
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