- Target:
- Students
- Region:
- Canada
- Website:
- www.yorku.ca
Since its creation in 1991, CRWS has supported hundreds of highschool, undergraduate and graduate students through the grants and commissioned research projects that it has won.
In its effort to carry-out this important work, CRWS’s desire to facilitate the research and training of graduate students has been paramount. The Centre’s last SSHRC-INE network grant alone involved the participation of over a hundred MA and PhD students at this university and at other affiliated universities.
CRWS has also been an important forum for the dissemination of graduate research work in the form of the Centre’s in-house journal Just Labour and working-paper series. Similarly, the many conferences that CRWS has organized have provided a space for students to interact not only with one another, but also with established researchers and labour unionists.
We would like to convey to you our belief that York University research centres, such as CRWS, play an essential role in preparing students to become future researchers by training them to communicate their work to the general public. During a time when York University hopes to extend the reach of its research through such priorities as community engagement and “Knowledge Mobilization”, it seems counter-intuitive to close a research center that has done so much to provide graduate researchers with the training to do so.
Dear York University President Mamdouh Shoukri,
We, the undersigned students, wish to express our concern regarding the possible closure of York University’s Centre for Research on Work and Society (CRWS). CRWS plays a vital role in producing and disseminating research related to the role of labour unions in the Canadian, and indeed, the global economy.
Since its creation in 1991, CRWS has supported hundreds of highschool, undergraduate and graduate students through the grants and commissioned research projects that it has won. In its effort to carry-out this important work, CRWS’s desire to facilitate the research and training of graduate students has been paramount. The Centre’s last SSHRC-INE network grant alone involved the participation of over a hundred MA and PhD students at this university and at other affiliated universities.
CRWS has also been an important forum for the dissemination of graduate research work in the form of the Centre’s in-house journal Just Labour and working-paper series. Similarly, the many conferences that CRWS has organized have provided a space for students to interact not only with one another, but also with established researchers and labour unionists.
We would like to convey to you our belief that York University research centres, such as CRWS, play an essential role in preparing students to become future researchers by training them to communicate their work to the general public. During a time when York University hopes to extend the reach of its research through such priorities as community engagement and “Knowledge Mobilization”, it seems counter-intuitive to close a research center that has done so much to provide graduate researchers with the training to do so.
Please reconsider the possible closure of CRWS.
Sincerely,
The undersigned.
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