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Urgent Action: Stop the Attack on Access & Equity (OCT 19 + 21) 40 year old access program to be destroyed by drastic changes Students who face barriers to access education are about to be hit even harder. The Transitional Year Programme (TYP), a 40 year old access program, is about to face drastic changes that will inevitably destroy it. These changes include taking away TYP's autonomy by putting it under Woodsworth College, taking away TYP's independent space, reducing teaching and support staff, and slashing the TYP budget. We need your support on Monday October 19 and Wednesday October 21. On these dates university bodies will be voting to decide the fate of the program. We need a mass turnout of people to stop these committees from rubber-stamping these heinous changes. MONDAY OCTOBER 19 3-5pm Faculty of Arts and Science Council Munk Centre, Campbell Conference Centre, 1 Devonshire Place (Devonshire and Hoskin) WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21 4:30-6pm Woodsworth College Council Woodsworth Residence, Waters Lounge 321 Bloor Street (Bloor and St. George) The University has told students that they are not closing TYP. However, TYP will be unable to serve its mandate and support its students under the proposed move to Woodsworth. Reducing staff, faculty and funding limits the ability of the program to meet the needs of its students. Taking away our space by moving us into a few rooms at Woodsworth further marginalizes us by removing the supportive environment that our home at 49 St. George provides. TYP may exist in name after these changes, but the marginalized students it serves will no longer be around. The central administration says they are committed to access and equity. The budget cut last year translated into half of our operating budget. This cut occurred before the economic crisis. How does this indicate the University's commitment to access? The University has priorities it pours millions of dollars into - access and equity must be one of these priorities. The University and TYP administration have been repeatedly asked to consult students through this process. After a battle, the TYP administration began meeting with the Transitional Year Programme Preservation Alliance, sharing limited information and calling it consultation. Never have students or the communities TYP serves been allowed input into the process. The future of these marginalized students is in your hands. Please join us in asking the University of Toronto to reconsider shutting the doors on this essential program. --- Transitional Year Programme Preservation Alliance --- TYP is a full-time access program at the University of Toronto for adults who lack the formal qualifications for university admission. It encourages applications from members of the Native Canadian, African-Canadian, and LGBTQ communities, as well as from sole-support parents, persons with disabilities, and students from working-class backgrounds of all ethnicities. TYPs work with marginalized students highlights the existence and extent of systemic barriers within the university. In this way, TYP is both a program serving an immediate need access to post-secondary education for non-traditional students and a project with the long-term goal of seeing the university as a whole transformed to reflect principles of access and equity. code pour embarquer la vidéo : >>> http://www.youtube.com/embed/-pl33KjJNns <<< |