Thread by @H_Y_L

The UCP are choosing to gut Alberta's post-secondary institutions {'cept the religious 1s} #UofA is being targeted disproportionately {could it be b/c #yeg voted NDP?🤔}.
It's students at Alberta's biggest university (1 of the best in the world) who'll suffer. See how: #PSE

https://twitter.com/DunchinYEG/status/1247313939618119681

What can students do about the #UCP attack on Alberta's universities?
Yes, budget sit'n is dire. But budget choices are being made based on: 1]ideologies of small gov't via downloaded (not lower) costs, 2]failed austerity models, 3]pork-barrel politics #PSE
@cafaab @ualbertaGSA

The #UCP attack on Alberta's post-secondary institutions is based on contested data & politicised interpretations. It will hurt #students, unnecessarily:
@cafaab @ualbertaGSA

#Students --undergrads & graduate, domestic & international-- at Alberta's top university, Canada's #4th, & top 100 internationally (a.k.a @UAlberta), will suffer disproportionately:
@ualbertaGSA @cafaab

Alberta's provincial govt's have always interceded in universities' governance & budgeting, far beyond other provincial govt's. (Eg: @albertaNDP dictating tuitions & collective bargaining $ last round); but the ##UCP's extreme micromanaging = 265 extra job losses in the #pandemic

Upshot of #UCP --what? Inflexibility? Incompetent budgeting? Anti-yeg politics? Anti-intellectualism? Complicity with O&G shareholders?-- CHOICES: students at #UofA will get less for more 😥. At a time when unemployment is skyrocketing, student/family debt will too.

But #students, #Albertans, you, we, are not powerless.
What can you do?
@ualbertaGSA @UASUualberta @cafaab

Similar conclusions, with greater detail on how unnecessarily destructive the @Alberta_UCP cuts are, from @mountroyal4u prof Kit Dobson (@mandrillfury) via @rabbleca:
#AbPSE #KenneyscutshurtAlbertans

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