I believe in a better world of diversity and language. Language is a form that will forever connect people to others through so much context and will never change to conform to English. Only 25% of this worlds population speak English. Therefore, we should learn to extend our arms and learn to connect with other human beings through language rather than having people always learn for us when there are so many places learning more than one language for those students while we are stuck with losing our language opportunities. I hope that these circumstances will start changing to allow for better opportunities for students and humans of this place we all call home on Earth. To be able to understand many types of languages or just another language in general is a beautiful, hopeful, and much appreciated gestor that will always allow for others to smile. In order for these connections to happen we need to stand up and keep these classes that will allow us to diversify among many different people of different backgrounds. This will allow for a brighter future not just for us now but for so many others in future generations to help build the future for the better with these amazing opportunities that allow for so much more.
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Pamela Barksdale
6 years ago
Everything Clark said is absolutely true.
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John D Lennon
6 years ago
To whom it may concern,
I am an alumnus of the University of UNH. I graduated in spring 2011.
A good majority of the professors at UNH who helped me in the professional work force were lecturers. Currently I am working as an English teacher and I have worked in China, Japan and South Korea. The professors who taught Chinese and Japanese were all lecturers. I also studied Spanish too and half of them were lecturers too. On top of that I am in charge of creating the fiction writing curriculum at my school and I use skills that I learned from lecturers who taught fiction writing and poetry at UNH.
All these lecturers from UNH have been extremely important to me since graduating and without them I would not have the necessary skills to be competent at my job. On top of that Professor Ikegami helped me tremendously when applying to the JET Program, a prestigious program to work with English speakers from around the world for the Japanese government. The development I underwent personally and professionally during my 5 years with that program has made me a more viable candidate for teaching and international job positions.
With all that said I hope that President Dean, the budget committee and the administration can see the importance of lecturers at UNH and try to find a way to maintain their contracts with the university. I greatly implore you to consider what a grave mistake it is cutting so many talented lectures who have the skills to make UNH an amazing and competitive university that will attract talent from all over the country and the world.
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Dr Michael Mair
6 years ago
Casualisation is a scourge and unfair, insecure contracts are a key tool in promoting it. Universities should value their staff and settle fair contracts with them.
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Nicole C Cunningham-Frisbey
6 years ago
i've gained a great deal of knowledge from the teaching experience of lecturers at this school a number of them have helped me in my own teaching pursuits. The amount of time and care they put into planning curriculum that manages to get most if not all of their students to care about what they learn is invaluable to this institution. Fair Wages needs to happen like yesterday.
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Mardi Kidwell
6 years ago
Many, many of our lecturers have the same training and experience as our tenure-track and tenured colleagues--they do research, they publish, they do service for the university, the community and the discipline AND they teach nearly twice as much and make far less money. It is unfair and undignified that they are working without a contract and contributes to the further degradation of our profession and the higher education experience for our students,
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Crystina Friese
6 years ago
My undergraduate education has been impacted the most by lecturers at UNH. They have been some of the most dedicated professors that I’ve had the opportunity to expand my knowledge and conduct research with. Please, UNH, if you don’t listen to your students then listen to your faculty for once. They deserve better.
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William Lee
6 years ago
I signed up for Japanese 401 expecting to eventually turn it into a cultural credit, if the program gets canceled then I won't have enough time to get the cultural credit in Japanese 503.
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Zeek Witt
6 years ago
They have my full support
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Tyler Distefano
6 years ago
Clark Knowles rocks
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Basti
6 years ago
You can't make a union go away by pretending it doesn't exist. Show us that you valuue your faculty!
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Barack Obama
6 years ago
Thank you President Dean, Very cool!
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Sean Bowers
6 years ago
Our lecturers do amazing and important work, please do not ignore them, president Dean. I would much rather know my tuition is going towards paying lecturers than going towards funding random cosmetic updates around campus.
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Ryan Wadleigh
6 years ago
Edward Reynolds, Catherine Moran, and countless others who are legends.
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Glenda Yoder
6 years ago
Glenda
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Ash Braga
6 years ago
Please keep the programs and the lecturers who teach them UNH!
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Don Hendrick
6 years ago
UNH! Do the right thing. Keep these programs and these lecturers!
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Monique lee
6 years ago
I would like to see unh keep the programs i think it’s sad
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Peter Walsh
6 years ago
UNH: Do the right thing! You know what that is.
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Dan Villarreal
6 years ago
Treat lecturers like the highly trained, highly qualified professionals that they are.
I believe in a better world of diversity and language. Language is a form that will forever connect people to others through so much context and will never change to conform to English. Only 25% of this worlds population speak English. Therefore, we should learn to extend our arms and learn to connect with other human beings through language rather than having people always learn for us when there are so many places learning more than one language for those students while we are stuck with losing our language opportunities. I hope that these circumstances will start changing to allow for better opportunities for students and humans of this place we all call home on Earth. To be able to understand many types of languages or just another language in general is a beautiful, hopeful, and much appreciated gestor that will always allow for others to smile. In order for these connections to happen we need to stand up and keep these classes that will allow us to diversify among many different people of different backgrounds. This will allow for a brighter future not just for us now but for so many others in future generations to help build the future for the better with these amazing opportunities that allow for so much more.
Everything Clark said is absolutely true.
To whom it may concern, I am an alumnus of the University of UNH. I graduated in spring 2011. A good majority of the professors at UNH who helped me in the professional work force were lecturers. Currently I am working as an English teacher and I have worked in China, Japan and South Korea. The professors who taught Chinese and Japanese were all lecturers. I also studied Spanish too and half of them were lecturers too. On top of that I am in charge of creating the fiction writing curriculum at my school and I use skills that I learned from lecturers who taught fiction writing and poetry at UNH. All these lecturers from UNH have been extremely important to me since graduating and without them I would not have the necessary skills to be competent at my job. On top of that Professor Ikegami helped me tremendously when applying to the JET Program, a prestigious program to work with English speakers from around the world for the Japanese government. The development I underwent personally and professionally during my 5 years with that program has made me a more viable candidate for teaching and international job positions. With all that said I hope that President Dean, the budget committee and the administration can see the importance of lecturers at UNH and try to find a way to maintain their contracts with the university. I greatly implore you to consider what a grave mistake it is cutting so many talented lectures who have the skills to make UNH an amazing and competitive university that will attract talent from all over the country and the world.
Casualisation is a scourge and unfair, insecure contracts are a key tool in promoting it. Universities should value their staff and settle fair contracts with them.
i've gained a great deal of knowledge from the teaching experience of lecturers at this school a number of them have helped me in my own teaching pursuits. The amount of time and care they put into planning curriculum that manages to get most if not all of their students to care about what they learn is invaluable to this institution. Fair Wages needs to happen like yesterday.
Many, many of our lecturers have the same training and experience as our tenure-track and tenured colleagues--they do research, they publish, they do service for the university, the community and the discipline AND they teach nearly twice as much and make far less money. It is unfair and undignified that they are working without a contract and contributes to the further degradation of our profession and the higher education experience for our students,
My undergraduate education has been impacted the most by lecturers at UNH. They have been some of the most dedicated professors that I’ve had the opportunity to expand my knowledge and conduct research with. Please, UNH, if you don’t listen to your students then listen to your faculty for once. They deserve better.
I signed up for Japanese 401 expecting to eventually turn it into a cultural credit, if the program gets canceled then I won't have enough time to get the cultural credit in Japanese 503.
They have my full support
Clark Knowles rocks
You can't make a union go away by pretending it doesn't exist. Show us that you valuue your faculty!
Thank you President Dean, Very cool!
Our lecturers do amazing and important work, please do not ignore them, president Dean. I would much rather know my tuition is going towards paying lecturers than going towards funding random cosmetic updates around campus.
Edward Reynolds, Catherine Moran, and countless others who are legends.
Glenda
Please keep the programs and the lecturers who teach them UNH!
UNH! Do the right thing. Keep these programs and these lecturers!
I would like to see unh keep the programs i think it’s sad
UNH: Do the right thing! You know what that is.
Treat lecturers like the highly trained, highly qualified professionals that they are.