#MonashCutsWatch
#MonashCutsWatch was a campaign run in Semester 2 , 2020 of the damage the universities did to staff during the COVID pandemic.
This page is kept for historical methods, and includes the survey we created at the time to gauge staff impact.
The ABC and Australian Financial Review reported that 477 casual staff at Monash lost work when COVID first hit
Professional, support and facilities services
55+ library staff cut, including Learning Skills Advisors
Reduced staffing in eSolutions
Outsourced cleaning staff stood down
Teaching
General reports of less availability of teaching staff to students.
Many units are only running tutorials every second week.
Art Design and Architecture
Reduced number of tutors and increase in student:teacher ratio
Arts
Indigenous Studies - casuals cut for first year units, permanent staff taking on more teaching duties
Film Studies - casual and fixed term contracts not being renewed
ATS1304 Intro to Television Studies - tutorials cut to every other week
ATS3171 Medieval philosophy: Jews, Christians and Muslims on Plato and Aristotle CUT
ATS2907 Modern Islam CUT
ATS2380 Australia: Migrant Nation CUT
ATS3890 Egypt's Golden Age - tutorials cut and replaced with Moodle forum
Engineering
ECE4044, ECE4045 - Demonstrators cut
Science
Lectures being re-used
Staff cuts in School of Physics and Astronomy
BIO2040 - staff cut
PSY3120 - tutorials cut to every other week