========================================================= Important Subscriber Information:----- Original Message -----From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Kelley BennettTo: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:48 PMSubject: Re: Another Univ. Museum on chopping blockWe do work in the real world. From our standpoint over here we do not receive sheltering by the university that keeps us from being aware. I realize the job marked is awful, but is it alright in a group that is museum professionals to stop an feel some sympathy for other people in the field who have to figure out what to do now.
Why is that ignoring the big picture, and why is showing some support an awful thing all of a sudden?
on 6/18/03 3:47 PM, Indigo Nights at [log in to unmask] wrote:
Folks, I don't want to be the skunk at the picnic here, and this is truly troubling news, but it mirrors what's going on in "the real world." It's more than just museum jobs. Go to the Chicago Tribune and read where unemployment is up to a 12 year high. Read the article posted to MuseJobs a week or so ago that California had the highest unemployment rate (21,500 jobs) and its rate was higher than the other 49 states combined.
We, in the States, and probably other nations, are bleeding jobs. If you're concerned about the lost of jobs, don't just do it at the parochial level. Forget the WIIFM (What's In It For Me). Your jobs are tied to those in the for-profit economy. If you sit back and do nothing about this, it will be like the old adage that the proverbial I stood by and did nothing for the Gypsies, and the Jews, and when they came for that person, there was no one to stand up to protect them.
It's a tragedy that jobs and museums are being rendered. But it's part of the larger tragedy of a tanking economy.
The problem is going to be that economic sector driving all these tax cuts and cutting back on jobs is not going to pick up and become the patrons of yore that used to underwrite the arts. It's going by the wayside if you don't do something about it before it's too late.
Pull your head out of your institutions, raise the periscope, and look around you. It's an alarming trend, but there are quite a number of those, and folks are asleep at the wheel until it directly impacts them.
"Justin F." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
As a former Alumni of the University of Arkansas, I was saddened to learn about its recent closer. Here is a link to the newstory from the NW Arkansas Times. http://www.nwanews.com/times/story_searchresults.php?storyid=107779
Justin French
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Biedenharn Museum and Gardens
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>Dear all,
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>There are several university museums going through financial difficulties (and other difficulties) in the US - particularly natural history. Problems exist for quite a while now and there has been a similar 'crisis' in the mid-1980s. The reasons are complex (higher education & research policies, lack of voice & power within mother institutions, narrow vision from CEOs and university presidents, other priorities, etc). University museums worldwide are being affected, not only American (and not only natural history).
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>For those of you who don't know, ICOM has recently created an International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC): icom.museum/umac. The 'crisis' topic will be intensely discussed in the UMAC Annual Conference, to be held in the US next September.
>In the US there is also the Association of University Museums and Galleries (ACUMG).
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>I wanted to attach 2 recent articles published on the matter (from 'Nature' and the 'Washington Watch', this month) but apparently the attachements were rejected. I will be glad to send them for those interested - please contact me off list. Unfortunately I do not have the Arkansas' article but I would be grateful if someone sent it to me as I am doing a PhD on university museums and collections.
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>Marta C.Lourenco.
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Another Univ. Museum on chopping block
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> >>> [log in to unmask] 06/18/03 08:24AM >>>
> Hello List,
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> I heard that the administration of the University of Arkansas is
> proposing to cut its university museum and staff, Is this true? If so,
> it is becoming a disturbing trend, first the University of Kansas Museum
> of Anthropology, University of Northern Arizona Anthro. Museum,
> University of Nebraska State Museum, and now U. of Arkansas.
>
> John Peterson
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> John -
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> Yesterday, a friend forwarded a news article from one of the Arkansas papers that announced this. I believe that all staff positions will be eliminated. I've suggested she post the article to the list.
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> Hard times.
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