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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mbessie@enl.uoa.gr [mailto:mbessie@enl.uoa.gr]
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<b>Sent:</b> 11 February 2013 07:10<br>
<b>To:</b> critics-l@listserv.cddc.vt.edu; ruth.wodak@univie.ac.at<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Petition: Save the foreign language departments of the University of Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">we need your support, please sign our petition at
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EL"><a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/professor-konstantinos-arvanitopoulos-greek-minister-of-education-save-the-departments-of-english-french-german-italian-and-spanish">https://www.change.org/petitions/professor-konstantinos-arvanitopoulos-greek-minister-of-education-save-the-departments-of-english-french-german-italian-and-spanish</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">and spread the word<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">SAVE THE DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, AND SPANISH LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES IN GREECE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Based on financial logistics rather than on criteria of academic excellence, the ATHENA scheme of the Greek government regarding University Education
calls for the merging of the Departments of English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish Languages and Literatures, into a single “Department of Foreign Languages and Literature” [sic] at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">The above Departments have a long-standing tradition in teaching and research within the framework of autonomous programmes of academic studies. Teaching
at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as research in these Departments, covers distinct disciplines of literary and theoretical/applied linguistic studies, always in fruitful dialogue with the sociocultural context in which these disciplines develop.
The ATHENA scheme will turn our Departments into a huge and misleadingly-named new “Department of Foreign Languages and Literature,” with five language-based “directions”. Inevitably, this will lead to language degrees with limited value, lack of educational
standards and professional training.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Therefore, we the professorial staff of the aforementioned Departments are opposed to the proposed merger and request from the Minister of Education
to respect and preserve each Department’s autonomy, tradition and its valuable contributions to society and the European mission.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Bessie Mitsikopoulou<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">_______________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Bessie Mitsikopoulou, Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Faculty of English Language and Literature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">School of Philosophy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">National and Kapodistrian University of Athens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Panepistimioupoli Zographou, Athens, GR-15784<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Tel.: 210 727 7705
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Email:
<a href="mailto:mbessie@enl.uoa.gr">mbessie@enl.uoa.gr</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.enl.uoa.gr">http://www.enl.uoa.gr</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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