It essentially eviscerates the university (including philosophy):
The pace of change at Laurentian University, which is in the midst of insolvency negotiations, is speeding up as termination notices for faculty and staff at the Sudbury, Ont., school started to roll out Monday morning.
A total of 100 Laurentian University professors were dismissed during meetings organized by the human resources department.
The latest news from Laurentian administration said 58 undergraduate programs will be closed (107 will remain open) and 11 graduate programs will be shut (33 to remain open).
Philosopher Byron Williston (Wilfrid Laurier) writes that Laurentian,
basically declared bankruptcy at the beginning of the year after the Conservative Provincial government refused to extend them a financial lifeline. They’ve been under protection from creditors ever since. Today’s actions are part of the ‘restructuring’ process. This is a big deal because nothing like it has, to my knowledge, ever happened before to a public university in Canada, even under the most socially regressive and anti-intellectual Provincial governments [the Harris government in Ontario 1995-2002].
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(Thanks to Joshua Mugg for the pointerto the CBC article.)