News Date: Jul 26, 2010
1,300 University of Toronto students and faculty have signed a petition protesting plans by school administration to amalgamate the East Indian, German, Italian, Slavic, and Spanish/Portuguese departments into one "School of Languages and Literature," as outlined in the arts and science faculty's academic plan. Students in the East Asian Studies program say the move would damage uToronto's reputation, downgrade the undergraduate experience, and hurt enrolment. Over 5,000 faculty, students, and alumni have signed another petition asking uToronto president David Naylor to reject a recommendation to fold the Centre for Comparative Literature into the proposed School of Languages and Literature and redefine it as a collaborative program. CAUT News