Update: Students Vocalize Opposition Through Social Media
Students have begun using social media to respond to College Dean Robin Forman’s recently announced departmental changes and suspensions.
A Twitter page @EmoryCuts has surfaced and as of 11 p.m. Sunday contains two Tweets, both urging students to attend a discussion and protest regarding suspended programs in the Laney Graduate School. The group has 35 followers.
Another Facebook group titled “Future of the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts [ILA]“ aims to “streamline communications among all the people working together to organize students in the ILA, alumns and supporters,” the page says. 568 members have joined the group.
Let’s not forget the ‘Save the Economics PhD program at Emory’ Facebook group that was started Friday afternoon about the same time as Dean Forman’s letter was emailed to everyone and now has 1353 members and over 500 signatures on a petition.
See our update from yesterday: http://www.emorywheel.com/update-protest-planned-for-monday-facebook-petition-for-econ-ph-d/
The University of Virginia’s newspaper wrote a good piece comparing this administrative debacle to their own scandal earlier this year
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2012/09/running-with-scissors