Public forums to discuss future of IU's labor studies
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Alyson Brodsy
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The first of six public forums deciding the future of the IU Division of Labor Studies will be held at 9 a.m. Friday in Poplars 185.
According to a June 19 IDS article, the department is in danger of being closed because it has dealt with budgetary problems and needs to find a new location.
"What emerges over the next months from each IU campus regarding a Labor Studies presence remains to be determined," Mark Sothmann, interim director of the division, said in a statement. "With established review procedures, there will be ample opportunity for numerous constituencies to offer comment on the optimal repositioning of Labor Studies at Indiana University."
According to the IDS article, the division addresses labor issues such as workers, workplace and worker organizations and has faculty and courses covering academic fields like economics, history, political science, law and sociology, as well as other related disciplines, despite its small size.
Faculty, staff, students, labor leaders and others have been invited to attend forums on the six IU campuses on which Division of Labor Studies faculty are located. The campuses are Bloomington, IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis, IU-Northwest, IU-Fort Wayne, IU-Kokomo and IU-South Bend, according to the press release.