Support Lloyd Pietersen and the future of the discipline
I will simply cut and paste Mark Goodacre's post which I fully endorse:
I should add that the Facebook group has a lot of helpful detail for when you compose your letters.Lloyd Pietersen and the University of Gloucestershire: Action needed
...now another British university department is similarly under threat from the university's own administration, and one of our good friends has heard today that his post has been terminated.
Lloyd Pietersen is Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator in New Testament Studies in the Department of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire. For those who do don't know him, Lloyd is a first class scholar, a fine teacher, and a delightful person, a massive asset to the university. It is unthinkable that they would let someone like Lloyd go.
So what can we do? To begin with, we can pull out all the stops and inundate both Paul Bowler (pbowler@glos.ac.uk) and Patricia Broadfoot (vc@glos.ac.uk) with notice of the damage to research and the university's reputation.
posted by James Crossley at 11.11.09
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We are in a recession, or hadn't you realised. The bankers mostly, governments and ourselves are at fault. That universities have to spend their money wisely is hitting home. We have all got so used to easy money. And now the government is going the way of Zimbabwe, with its "quantitative easing" or printing money. Money now grows on trees. So why should biblical studies be an exception? I visited a Rolls Royce Company last week where redundancies had been announced because orders had been cancelled. The employees were very subdued.
Just thank God you don't have to put up with all the trivialities that come out of US biblical studies departments.
12:35 PM
Another sensitive and insightful comment from the lovely Geoff.
6:26 PM
Just to balance things up.
10:13 AM
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