What better way to learn about working people and their struggles over time than a non business related program at a public university? Please keep this very informative initiative.
The effort to disband DLS strongly suggests a lack of independence on the part of IUPUI's administration. Faculty and students in other programs should see the writing on the wall and come to the defense of DLS. This is about academic freedom as well as workers' rights.
I cannot understand how you can justify cuts to the Labor Education Program while there's so much pro-business and anti-labor eduation becing funded at IU and other public universities.
With the success of the DLS in recruiting and income it is highly puzzling why you are pushing to "merge" them with another unit. Do you have a bias against labor studies?
Reg McGhee
Detroit, MI
It is a socially desirable program and must not be eliminated.Human resource development must receive top priority while managing the growing scarcity of resources faced by this great institution in Indiana.I taught for two years at Purdue University and have many fond memories of Indiana.
If the powers that be want to cut the one program that serves working people, they should be sure to cut out any program that gets money from corporations or whose work is basically a subsidy for corporations.
There are few programs specifically designed to meet the educational needs of working people. This program is especially needed because of the northern Indiana area's declining industrial base. I don't understand why a program so successful and valued by its community would be discontinued.
Workers have a right to be part of a public university's curriculum and academic program. We pay taxes that help fund higher public education and should have not only a voice but programs that represent our history, struggles and rights.
