Petition to Senate Concerning Admission Freezes and Closures

We cannot lose such a valuable and well-respected program to the vagaries of decisions made by bean-counters.

BSCH 2010

Please reconsider your decision to cut funding to this program. It is a vital part of Queen's University.

This is inexcusable.

Please sign the petition if you have a problem with how Queen's handled the suspension of admissions to the Fine Art program... It was bad.

Queen's BFA 2000 & Adjunct Professor 2005-6, Currently Assistant Professor, Dept. of Visual Arts, University of Regina

Art is an essential part of education; it should be considered a priority for a university, not expendable at the administrations' personal whims. If you think that characterization is unfair, then what about including some consultation in the process? As long as there is no process of consultation in place for such major decisions such as cuts to a programme, through a "representative" body like the Senate, such cuts WILL appear as mere personal whim.

Of the academic importance of this distinguished programme in Fine Arts I have no doubt. My own interdisciplinary course in modernist literature has been been greatly enriched in the past by the vitality of the fine arts community on this campus. Future versions of it will be impoverished by this move, as will many similar interdisciplinary efforts across the university. I regret not having been given the opportunity to submit a case for the academic value of this programme before this decision was made and I implore the Faculty of Arts and Science to reconsider its decision.

Who made the decision to freeze admission to the BFA programme? What was the process? Queen's needs the arts--they are transformative.

Thank you for this. We have felt very isolated by this.

In suspending admission to the BFA the FAS is doing something of considerable academic consequence, in and of itself. It is also obvious that this action will create the conditions leading to closure of the program. This is a matter that should be thoroughly examined and debated in Senate. It is not a matter for simple administrative decision.

Academic decisions cannot be made on exclusively financial grounds.

Please save the BFA program!! So many talented people will lose their chance at a degree here.

Total incompetence by the admin. they ignore the value of the fine arts program then blame it on resources. FIX IT.

Cutting the arts is always the easy way out for these budgets. Shameful.

KEEP THE PROGRAM OPEN. DONT JUST SHUT IT DOWN BECAUSE OF POOR PLANNING.

This is ridiculous. Queens is supposed to be a top university and now they are cutting the arts? Where are the students supposed to go?

My sister was looking forward to applying next year this is so sad for her and everyone else affected