 Fall 2009 • the Italian Drama Workshop presents selections from di Dario Fo e Franca Rame (1969) in Flawn Academic Center (FAC) 21 • Wednesday 2 December at 3:30 pm Friday 4 December at 8:00 pm • FREE ADMISSION The instructor of this course and the Director of the Italian Drama Workshop is Antonella Del Fattore-Olson Distinguished Senior Lecturer, UT-Austin ________________________________________________________________ STOP THE CUTS TO UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AT U.T. UT is proposing to drastically cut and lay off teachers and support staff at UT-Austin, increase class sizes and reduce the number of course offerings on basic undergraduate education. • All colleges are being asked to lay off undergraduate teaching staff. • The College of Liberal Arts is being asked to lay off 20-33% of lecturers, assistant instructors, and teaching assistants, 78 to 300 people total. • The College of Natural Sciences is being asked to lay off 10% of their lecturers, teaching assistants, and research assistants. • 40 support staff employees from Information Technology and the College of Engineering were laid off in September 2009. • 16 support staff employees from the McCombs School of Business were laid off in October 2009. • Non-tenured instructors and support staff are key to quality undergraduate education. • The UT budget is not experiencing a deficit. Why such drastic cuts? AS A STUDENT, WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP? 1. Talk to your parents (especially if they live in Texas!) 2. Call the UT President and the UT Board of Regents UT President William Powers, 512-471-1232 The UT Board of Regents, 512-499-4402 Tell them: As a concerned student/parent of a student at UT-Austin, I ask that you reconsider shifting UT's priorities away from quality undergraduate education. Please stop the layoffs and budget cuts that will harm the quality of undergraduate education at UT-Austin. 3. You and your parents need to call your Texas State Representative and Texas State Senator from your home district in Texas. To find your Texas State Representative and Texas State Senator, go to Tell them: As a concerned constituent in your district, I ask that you take action to increase funding to UT-Austin, our state's flagship university, to preserve quality and affordable undergraduate and graduate education for all Texans. 4. Talk to your friends about the budget cuts and layoffs, and ask them to talk to their parents and call the UT President, the Board of Regents, and their legislators. 5. Get signatures on the "Stop the Cuts!" Petition. E-mail for copies of the petition. 6. Join the Facebook Group "Stop the Cuts to Undergraduate Education at UT" to stay informed. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=159804796266 You can download a copy of this flyer as a pdf. Scroll to the bottom of this page.  These pages are not part of the web site of UT-Austin. Neither the University of Texas at Austin nor the Department of French & Italian funds, endorses, approves, recommends or certifies as safe and effective any of these pages or their contents. No information found on these pages expresses any official opinion or policy of the University of Texas at Austin or of the Department of French & Italian. Nothing in the contents of these pages is intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any disease. The University of Texas at Austin, its College of Liberal Arts and its Department of French & Italian all have their own web sites which are easily found by searching for them on Google. |