UNH needs to stop caring about money and focus on education.
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Juliana Good
6 years ago
Lecturers matter!!!
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Isaac
6 years ago
If the university isn't going to treat their hardworking employees with respect and gratitude, then how are we as students (and tuition payers) supposed to feel as though the university respects us. I don't see a way in which the university can have our best interest at heart if they don't even help the people in which they are working with. If the university can't seem to afford such an integral part of it's system, then something else is wrong.
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Elaine Menard
6 years ago
A lecturer is a not-so-fancy name for teacher. These teachers impact the education of many of your students. Give them a contract! They are important to UNH...you need them.
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Ward Willis
6 years ago
Keep it spicy UNH. As a graduate of your fine institution, I'm concerned that perhaps the bottom line is cloud your vision that diverse lecturers, thinkers, and students are the bedrock of a great education!
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Warren Smith
6 years ago
Most students acquire substantial debt during their undergraduate experience, with faith in the university to provide guidance and instruction to prepare them be successful in earning a living and contributing to society upon graduation. Learning foreign languages and foreign cultures is critical to a complete education, and extremely important in preparing students to compete in the new multicultural marketplace. Dropping access to foreign language instruction, while emphasizing new "socially-correct" programs of questionable marketable value, does a terrible disservice to students, and is contrary to the mission of the university. From the perspective of a New Hampshire tax-payer, I view such a reorientation of university programs to constitute financial malfeasance.
In my personal experience, my Japanese language instruction (and ability to navigate the international business environment in another language) as contributed much more directly to my career and earnings than my undergraduate instruction in physics, than my MBA, and even than my doctorate in business strategy. Shame on you, President Dean, for sacrificing a useful program to redirect assets to fashionable fluff programs that leave students with massive debt and no marketable skills.
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Tom C
6 years ago
I love my language department and I won't see more lecturers treated unfairly! They are brilliant, hardworking educators
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Trevor Drury
6 years ago
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The fact that lecturers are working without a contract is deplorable. And the main factor that made me decide to come to UNH was it having a Japanese program. But now it's being cut and UNH is about to lose some of its greatest assets in the program, and in Pam Ikegami.
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Seth Mandravelis
6 years ago
The dropping of a language program is unprofessional and even more so when it is considered to be a language of great importance by both the USA and by a plethora of other countries. There is no reason to drop an entire program or to leave multiple lecturers without job security. These are nonsensical issues that should not even need to be petitioned against. It should be simply be known that job security and diversity in academic departments are obligatory.
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David Murcko
6 years ago
I remember when Ikegami Sensei first started learning in her classroom. It was because of her that I went to study in Japan in 2008 and even teaching overseas in Korea and Japan post graduation. It changed my perspective and my outlook on life entirely. No one could ever replace her.
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Evan Smith
6 years ago
The Japanese class offered by Pam Ikegami was foundational for my learning. A liberal arts degree teaches critical thought and reasoning, diversity of opinion, and approaching things from not just different viewpoints but different cultures and beliefs as well. As an Alum, seeing UNH's continued attack on diverse curriculums is incredibly disheartening but it reaffirms my decision that attending a post-graduate degree at a different University was correct.
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Samantha Poly
6 years ago
Ikegami sensei has impacted my life so much in my time at the university and has helped to nurture my love for Japanese culture and the language. She is immensely talented, compassionate, and selfless, and to lose her because of the university’s unwillingness to continue funding a program that helps to expand its diversity would be a crime.
UNH needs to stop caring about money and focus on education.
Lecturers matter!!!
If the university isn't going to treat their hardworking employees with respect and gratitude, then how are we as students (and tuition payers) supposed to feel as though the university respects us. I don't see a way in which the university can have our best interest at heart if they don't even help the people in which they are working with. If the university can't seem to afford such an integral part of it's system, then something else is wrong.
A lecturer is a not-so-fancy name for teacher. These teachers impact the education of many of your students. Give them a contract! They are important to UNH...you need them.
Keep it spicy UNH. As a graduate of your fine institution, I'm concerned that perhaps the bottom line is cloud your vision that diverse lecturers, thinkers, and students are the bedrock of a great education!
Most students acquire substantial debt during their undergraduate experience, with faith in the university to provide guidance and instruction to prepare them be successful in earning a living and contributing to society upon graduation. Learning foreign languages and foreign cultures is critical to a complete education, and extremely important in preparing students to compete in the new multicultural marketplace. Dropping access to foreign language instruction, while emphasizing new "socially-correct" programs of questionable marketable value, does a terrible disservice to students, and is contrary to the mission of the university. From the perspective of a New Hampshire tax-payer, I view such a reorientation of university programs to constitute financial malfeasance. In my personal experience, my Japanese language instruction (and ability to navigate the international business environment in another language) as contributed much more directly to my career and earnings than my undergraduate instruction in physics, than my MBA, and even than my doctorate in business strategy. Shame on you, President Dean, for sacrificing a useful program to redirect assets to fashionable fluff programs that leave students with massive debt and no marketable skills.
I love my language department and I won't see more lecturers treated unfairly! They are brilliant, hardworking educators
The fact that lecturers are working without a contract is deplorable. And the main factor that made me decide to come to UNH was it having a Japanese program. But now it's being cut and UNH is about to lose some of its greatest assets in the program, and in Pam Ikegami.
The dropping of a language program is unprofessional and even more so when it is considered to be a language of great importance by both the USA and by a plethora of other countries. There is no reason to drop an entire program or to leave multiple lecturers without job security. These are nonsensical issues that should not even need to be petitioned against. It should be simply be known that job security and diversity in academic departments are obligatory.
I remember when Ikegami Sensei first started learning in her classroom. It was because of her that I went to study in Japan in 2008 and even teaching overseas in Korea and Japan post graduation. It changed my perspective and my outlook on life entirely. No one could ever replace her.
The Japanese class offered by Pam Ikegami was foundational for my learning. A liberal arts degree teaches critical thought and reasoning, diversity of opinion, and approaching things from not just different viewpoints but different cultures and beliefs as well. As an Alum, seeing UNH's continued attack on diverse curriculums is incredibly disheartening but it reaffirms my decision that attending a post-graduate degree at a different University was correct.
Ikegami sensei has impacted my life so much in my time at the university and has helped to nurture my love for Japanese culture and the language. She is immensely talented, compassionate, and selfless, and to lose her because of the university’s unwillingness to continue funding a program that helps to expand its diversity would be a crime.