I fear our momentum has stalled a bit on the petition, but all is well.  We are profoundly grateful to all who signed and for a number of quite buoying comments. We are continuing our campaign by barraging our Officer-In-Charge, our Provost and our College Council Chair with letters from other philosophy departments within and without SUNY and from many alums.  We are confident that that flow will continue for a while and would certainly encourage you to send your thoughts their way as well.  Please keep sharing the petition, as well.  I am sure there are communities that we haven’t yet breached.

A formal request to rescind both the decision to dissolve the department and place the major into provisional status has just gone to the above-named principals. We will see if anything productive comes of it, but we wanted to give them the opportunity to respond before pressing on. We will certainly press on if need be.  Thanks again for your support.