[csaa-forum] Re: csaa-forum Digest, Vol 30, Issue 12

[mayhem at student.usyd.edu.au]

Dear All,

I know there's a lot to be said against internet
petitions, but this UWS thing is terrible!
It looks like the entire visual and performing arts faculty of a
university - is being shut down.

THIS IS NOT A GET-UP Petition!

PLEASE:go to:

http://www.petitiononline.com/uws6Arts/petition.html

and sign the petition, or start writing to your state
and federal pollies and newspapers - all the ones that
keep murmering about the Arts in Western Sydney being
really important.

PLEASE forward this onto your networks/friends/ anyone
you might know who gives a damn about art, education,
new media and culture.

If academics can't network together to kick up a huff about something like
this then we're all doomed......

Cut and paste the letter below:


SAVE UWS ARTS

This petition is an initiative of University of
Western Sydney arts students, to protest the decision
on the part of the University's College of Arts/School
of Communication Arts to suspend its Fine Arts and
Electronic Arts programs and abandon its Performance
program. The Fine Arts and Electronic Arts programs as
they currently exist are being taught out, and the
plan is for a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts to replace
them. Intake for this program has been indefinitely
suspended. Show your support for the implementation of
this program by signing this petition. We believe it
is important that this proposed program, when
implemented, services the professional needs of arts
students, lecturers and the arts communities in
western Sydney.

Please support art education in western Sydney by
signing this petition and forwarding this link to your
network. For information and updates go to the Save
UWS Arts Blog: http://www.saveuwsarts.blogspot.com

Thanks for your support.

Sincerely,

Or make up your own.


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