The University of South Carolina, a public university, is completely cutting funding to their women's and gender studies department and shutting it down to save money. In the department's stead, the university will teach constitutional studies.
The shutdown of the center will save the public university $45,000 yearly. Additional cuts at the University of South Carolina will total $450,000 from the school's budget of $92 million-a year.
School officials said the closing of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies is not related to the controversial LGBTQ seminar this spring that included the play "How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less." The play was canceled after an outcry, though the symposium continued as scheduled. Instead, the change is supposed to bring the school into compliance with a 90-year-old law that requires public universities to teach student's a year's worth of courses on the nation's founding.
While school officials say this isn't punitive, there have been grassroots efforts to close the women's and gender studies program. Ask the University of South Carolina to reinstate the department.
Dear Sir,
We the undersigned ask that you reverse the closure of your university's gender and women's studies department.
The University of South Carolina, a public university, is completely cutting funding to their women's and gender studies department and shutting it down to save money. In the department's stead, the university will teach constitutional studies.
The shutdown of the center will save the public university $45,000 yearly. Additional cuts at the University of South Carolina will total $450,000 from the school's budget of $92 million-a year.
School officials said the closing of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies is not related to the controversial LGBTQ seminar this spring that included the play "How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less." The play was canceled after an outcry, though the symposium continued as scheduled. Instead, the change is supposed to bring the school into compliance with a 90-year-old law that requires public universities to teach student's a year's worth of courses on the nation's founding.
While school officials say this isn't punitive, there have been grassroots efforts to close the women's and gender studies program. We ask that you reinstate the department at your university.
