News Date: Jul 30, 2010
The proposed closure of the University of Toronto's Centre for Comparative Literature has sparked an international campaign in protest, with scholars from all over Canada, the US, and Europe writing letters pleading with uToronto to reconsider folding the centre into a proposed new School of Languages and Literature. The vice-president of the American Comparative Literature Association writes that "as the premiere institution in Canada, and as the leader among Commonwealth universities, Toronto cannot afford to send the message that the Centre for Comparative Literature is slated for disestablishment." A dean at the University of Central Lancashire writes that the centre is "well regarded" in Britain and calls the decision to close it "academic vandalism." Maclean's OnCampus