DOCUMENT APPROVED BY THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
'DI TORINO
October 14, 2008 In recent months trying to convince the public that the
' ; University, one of the oldest institutions in the country, is not nothing but a
receptacle in which privileges are to reign
nepotism and inefficiency.
points are very critical and has some interest in the University itself
develop procedures for the selection and evaluation procedures virtuous best.
remains in
obscure the fact that the University and the entire education system
operate in conditions of total under-funding, with staff shortages
and delays in the adjustment of structures. And it is completely silent
it lives, but more often survives, thanks to the generous contribution and
many qualified teachers and researchers which is associated with a number of disarming
precarious, too often forgotten, without any guarantee, and in this
perspective.
The implementation of Law 133 of August 6, 2008 will aggravate the
situation rather than solve it.
The resources available for hiring new staff will
drastically reduced in proportion to intake every five
retirement. This will limit the ability to objectively
staff turnover and an aging with its substantial adverse effect on
research and teaching quality.
The gradual reduction in the provision of regular financing makes
the picture even more bleak. The possibility
"offer" to the universities to decide their own
transformation into private foundations, replacing its management
the principle of profitability than of the social, denies
public nature of higher education.
It happened rarely that a decision concerning the University
hit all its components, combining them into a single protest in defense of universities as public institutions guaranteeing
the right to education and
ideal forum for the expression of freedom of research and teaching
.
The Assembly of the Faculty of Political Science considers therefore necessary
tackle it firmly and united, and by every legal means, the
concrete implementation of Law 133.
therefore decided to:
- invite the Chancellor to cancel the ceremony of inauguration of the Academic
, replacing it with an initiative
public
great impact
- urging the Chancellor to convene a ' ; meeting of the University
in the shortest possible time;
- propose opening night of the Faculty of Political Science,
during which a developing interdisciplinary reflection on the University
public
open to the entire city;
- to coordinate their efforts to mobilize
with those of other schools of all levels;
- establish a permanent working group composed of all the components
- structured and unstructured - the faculty, with the task of
develop alternative proposals for the organization dell.Università;
- to give the widest possible dissemination This document
through all available communication channels.
The document was adopted unanimously.