UPDATE: Sunday 9 May, 5:15 pm CDT: much more is at stake in the Save Middlesex Philosophy campaign than just philosophy at one London university. Administrators all over the world are watching this situation and will have to think twice about such moves in the face of the international resistance the MDX admin is receiving. So please take part by writing a letter to the MDX Board: the program you save may be your own!
UPDATE Sunday 9 May, 3:00 pm CDT: Please see my Open Letter to the MDX Board. Please consider writing one of your own to the Board as well as to the administrators.
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More interesting facts from the Middlesex 2009 financial statement, available here: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/Finan_stat_08_09.pdf (see page 32) we find the following trends in the period from 2008 to 2009:
Expenditures for "marketing related costs" went from 1,679,000 pounds to 2,209,000 pounds
Expenditures for "consultants and professional advisors" went from 2,321,000 pounds to 3,122,000.
Yes, that's right. The year before Middlesex administrators closed the philosophy department, the admin authorized some 5.3 million pounds for marketing and consultants. They spent 3.1 million pounds on consultants alone.
How much did the consultants who recommended closing the philosophy department charge? Or did the admin come up with that on their own?
How much less could they have spent on consultants to be able to retain the philosophy department?
Regarding the previous post, how much of the increase in admin pay would be needed to retain the philosophy department?
UPDATE, Friday 7 May, 2:20 pm CDT: useful links:
Save Middlesex Philosophy website: http://savemdxphil.wordpress.com/
Petition site: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-middlesex-philosophy.html
Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119102561449990
UPDATE, Saturday 8 May, 11:00 pm CDT:
Statements in support of Middlesex philosophy by the APA and by SPEP
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