fyi ____________________________________ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: 5/27/2010 7:24:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time Subj: [URPE] Restore RESD Now
Dear All I want to inform you that Administration of University of Massachusetts Lowell has recently decided to dismantle the department of Regional Economic and Social Development (RESD). The department was launched in 1997 as part of an initiative to broaden and deepen the University’s impact on regional development. It has been an outstanding example of how the public university can both learn from and place itself in the service of the regional economy. In 2010, after a dozen years in operation, RESD can claim outstanding success in graduate and undergraduate teaching, academic research and funding, and outreach to the regional community. However, RESD has been under attack from the UMass Lowell Administration and on March 30, 2010, Chancellor Martin T. Meehan announced that as of July 1, 2010 RESD will be dismantled. We have constructed a website as part of our campaign to Restore RESD Now. _www.restoreresd.org_ (http://www.restoreresd.org/) We ask you to read the material posted on the website, and write letters of support to Restore RESD Now. Please send your support letters to Barbara F. DeVico, Secretary to the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees: [email protected] Jack M. Wilson, President, University of Massachusetts: [email protected] and Martin T. Meehan, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Lowell: [email protected] Please be sure to copy your letter to [email protected]. And please spread to word to others who will recognize the importance of this case. Thanks from the faculty, students, alumni, and friends of RESD. Kind regards Mustafa Erdem Sakinç (RESD Graduate) Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV ___________ just the 11th thesis... _______________________________________________ This is the listserve of the Union for Radical Political Economics, an interdisciplinary association devoted to the study, development and application of radical political economic analysis to social problems. This is a moderated announcement-only listserve. For discussion or debate, please use the URPE Blog, the URPE Facebook page, or a different list. See info below. We try to keep the number of messages, and the length of messages, to a minimum. If you have an article you want people to know about, we request that you send a link, rather than the full article, in your post. The content of announcements must be strongly related to radical political economics, i.e. jobs, conferences, talks, classes, resources. Please submit messages exactly as you would like them to go out (spelling, etc.). Messages will go out in plain text. DO NOT INCLUDE ATTACHMENTS. ANY OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THE MESSAGES AND IN THE EVENTS THEY PROMOTE ARE THOSE OF THE INDIVIDUAL WRITERS AND SPEAKERS, NOT OF URPE AS AN ORGANIZATION. URPE-ANNOUNCEMENTS MAILING LIST TO SUBMIT A MESSAGE, send an email to: [email protected] n.utah.edu DO NOT INCLUDE ATTACHMENTS. Using this list, subscribing, unsubscribing: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/urpe-announcements To contact the moderator: [email protected] REPLY OPTIONS: To reply to sender, click Reply. To reply to sender and/or list, click Reply All. Please consider carefully before sending your reply to the entire list. TO CONTACT URPE: Website: http://urpe.org/ National Office: [email protected], 413-577-0806 Review of Radical Political Economics: http://urpe.org/rrpe/rrpehome.html; [email protected] Economy Connection (speakers/resources): http://www.urpe.org/ec/echome.html; [email protected] OTHER LISTS AND WEBSITES WITH DEBATES AND INFORMATION Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com Heterodox Economics Newsletter: [email protected]; http://www.heterodoxnews.com/index.htm Portside (Left political debates): http://lists.portside.org/mailman/listinfo/portside See http://www.urpe.org/listserv/otherlists.html for additional lists. Go to http://www.urpe.org/listserv/listhome.html for information on the URPE Blog and URPE Facebook page.
