[Magdalen] Another Casualty.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

The daily email from TRC yesterday or Wednesday had a link to a report of this info. IIRC the current and new dean has resigned over it.   I'll try to find link later. 
Lynn, too disheartened to send to pub when I first read it

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On Jul 22, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 22/07/2016 21:34, Marion Thompson wrote:
> The Revd Matthew Cadwell, who is Co-President of the EDS Alum. Executive Committee, has posted a long letter from the Cttee on FB.  It sounds like the Bd of Trustees did a precipitous end run without full consultation or agreement.

I must admit that when I saw this news I wondered about what was going on, particularly as regards students who are about to start or for whom the next year will not be their final scheduled year of study.  Provision should have been made for them to complete the course for which they enrolled or it would be a case of an unchristian leaving them in the lurch.  This side of the pond when seminaries have closed appropriate provision has been made for students to complete their course.  In the first case with which I am familiar one college was combined with another, initially on the two sites and then in the second and final year of transition on the one site, which is where I was.  Incoming students were enabled to start on the new combined site, which is where I had started.

Some decades later there was another cutting back leading to the closure of that college but there was a gradual winding down which allowed existing students to complete their courses before final closure. What I have heard of the EDS decision suggests that such consideration of the needs of students has not been forthcoming.

Roger