Friday 24 March 2017

Petition

I think doing an online petition would be preferential over a paper one for many reasons;
1) More people will sign it - students have already started going home, we can share the petition online in various places to generate more awareness and support, as well as going around campus asking for signatures with a laptop.
2) Practicality - everyone will sign it properly, and everyone's results will be in one place
3) We can share the findings of it easier, we can send the link with the signatures to whomever.
4) We could also possibly use the email addresses we are given to end to share more info with people eg video.

Change is a good website for this kind of thing, it is very helpful in setting up the petition, and gives us help as we go along.

I suggest a title of "Raising awareness of gender and racial perceptions at Goldsmiths"
And getting people to agree that:
"There should be more females and people of colour who make it to higher academic roles such as professor"
"That more should be done to encourage individual lecturers to diversify their curriculum"
"That allegation of racism and sexism should be taken seriously, and more should be done to improve reporting procedure"

Sorry, I'm missing our meeting today, the doctor called me and told me to go in about some test results from the hospital.

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