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The labor studies department at Indiana University (IU) needs you to speak up and defend labor education. The effort underway to dismantle the department is a violation of academic freedom and university policy.

The Department of Labor Studies (DLS) faced a 20 percent cut in operating funds for 2005. As a result the DLS faculty increased their teaching load, and they radically increased income. In the just-concluded 2005-06 fiscal year DLS netted $2 million in income, doubling the income goal set by the university administration.

Despite that, academic administrators are working on a reorganization plan that would close DLS offices at the university’s Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Kokomo campuses, merge the department with another (to be determined), and possibly eliminate all non-tenured DLS faculty.

Show your support for IU’s program and sign the petition to save DLS at www.petitionspot.com/petitions/IULaborStudies. For more information, email Professor Ruth Needleman at rneedle@iun.edu. Or mail your letters of support to Indiana University Division of Labor Studies, Union Building, Room 503, 620 Union Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202.

Expiration Date:
Wed, 11/08/2006 - 10:00pm