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They are calling it Black Monday in Sudbury. The Northern Ontario city, made famous by its nickel mines and a Stompin’ Tom Connors ode to its raucous Saturday nights, is reeling from this week’s announcement of massive cuts at struggling Laurentian University.
Everyone is rightly looking for someone to blame for the financial mess that led Laurentian’s current administration to fire more than a quarter of the university’s professors and eliminate dozens of programs, from mathematics to midwifery. After filing for court protection from its creditors in February – a first for a publicly funded Canadian university – Laurentian this week broke another major taboo of higher learning by handing out pink slips
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Robert Hache, the president of Laurentian University, announced Monday the university has cut almost 60 programs in an effort to balance the books.
It also appears that at least 100 faculty have lost their jobs, as well.
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Reaction to the news was swift and bitter. Below is a roundup of those comments, culled from Twitter and slightly edited.
âHugely distressed to learn that LU admin (is) terminating the School of Midwifery â it sounds like the contours of what this will mean for students are as yet unclear, but either way, this will have devastating impacts on access to reproductive healthcare in Ontarioâs North.â
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