Protest Letter to SUNY-Albany Snail Mail Addresses

Wed Oct 13 21:20:51 UTC 2010

Dear Colleagues:
Here are the snail mail addresses to which we, as the Union College Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, have sent our protest letter (it went out yesterday).

This could serve as a list (perhaps to be augmented) to send a printed-out version of the online petition, which is being discussed with Brett Bowles of the French Department at SUNY Albany and Josh Wilson.   
George Philips, President

University Administration Building

State University of New York

Albany, NY 12222

Catherine Herman, Vice-President

University Administration Building

State University of New York

Albany, NY 12222

Susan Phillips, Provost

University Administration Building

State University of New York

Albany, NY 12222

Edelgard Wulfert, Dean of Arts & Sciences

Arts & Sciences Building

1400 Washington Avenue

State University of New York

Albany, NY 12222

Nancy L. Zimpher, Chancellor

State University of New York

State University Plaza

353 Broadway

Albany, NY 12246

Hugh Farley, State Senator

Legislative Office Building

Room 706

Albany, NY 12247

Neil D. Breslin, State Senator

502 Capitol Building

Albany, NY 12247

John J. McEneny, Assembly Member

Legislative Office Building #648

Albany, NY 12248

Charles Shumer, Senator

757 Third Avenue

Suite 17-02

New York, NY 10017

Kristin Gillibrand, Senator

Federal Office Building

1 Clinton Square, Room 821

Albany, NY 12207

Scott Murphy, Congressman

487 Broadway

Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

George Amedore, Jr., Representative

Legislative Office Building #426

Albany, NY 12248

Paul D. Tonko, Congressman

128 Cannon HOB

Washington, DC 20515

Very Sincerely Yours,

Charles Arndt
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
Union College 

--- On Wed, 10/13/10, Stephanie Briggs <sdsures at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Stephanie Briggs <sdsures at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Closure of Russian, French, Italian and Classics- and Theatre-at SUNY-Albany
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 3:56 PM

I'm assuming they won't axe the football program at SUNY? That would be
national crisis time. *tongue in cheek*

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On 13 October 2010 19:41, Dassia Posner <dassia2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> If I might, I'd like to add (at least from what I read in the NYT) that
> Theatre is also on this list of departments to be closed.
> Best,
> Dassia Posner
>
> On Oct 13, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Henryk Baran wrote:
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > members of this list have become familiar with the planned closure of
> > Russian, French, Italian and Classics programs at the University at
> > Albany, and it is thanks to the initiative of members of this list that
> the
> > online petition protesting the cuts has no amassed thousands of
> > signatures.
> >
> > At the Albany campus, there is much activity, student and faculty, in
> > support of the threatened programs, and colleagues in various fields of
> > the humanities around the world have written to the campus
> > administration decrying its decision - taken, as is now confirmed by
> > recently published documents - not so much in response to budget
> > constraints, but as part of a plan to redirect resources to other fields.
> >
> > It is impossible to predict what might result from the various campaigns
> > will have on the situation at the University at Albany, but I and my
> > colleagues in the several programs, as well as our students, would be
> > grateful if members of this list would send letters directly to the key
> > administrators responsible for the situation. The specifics of such
> letters
> > I leave to potential authors, and only suggest that the texts be brief
> > and that all the language areas affected by the cuts be specifically
> > included.
> >
> > Here are the addresses of administrators responsible, to a greater or
> > lesser degree, for the decision to further demolish the humanities at
> > SUNY-Albany:
> >
> > George Philip, President: presmail at uamail.albany.edu
> >
> > Catherine Herman, Vice-President: cherman at uamail.albany.edu
> >
> > Susan Phillips, Provost: provost at uamail.albany.edu
> >
> > Edelgard Wulfert, Dean of Arts & Sciences: ewulfert at uamail.albany.edu
> >
> >
> > For paper mail:
> > Office of the President / Vice-President / Provost
> > University Administration Building
> > State University of New York
> > State University of New York
> > Albany, NY 12222
> >
> > and
> >
> > Office of the Dean
> > Arts & Sciences Building
> > 1400 Washington Avenue
> > State Unversity of New York
> > Albany,  NY 12222
> >
> > I would also suggest that copies of the letters be send to the following
> > address:
> >
> > Carl T. Hayden, Chairman, Board of Trustees, SUNY
> > trustees at suny.edu
> >
> > Many thanks in advance
> >
> > Henryk Baran
> > University at Albany, SUNY
> >
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> Dassia N. Posner, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Department of Dramatic Arts, University
> of Connecticut
> Dramaturg, Connecticut Repertory Theatre
> Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard
> University
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