If you are concerned about the future of UWS, please write to your MP. Below are listed the email addresses of MPs in the vicinity of a UWS campus. You can use the sample letter below, or write your own.
Dear —,
You are probably aware of the proposed round of cuts to courses and schools at the University of Western Sydney.
What you may not be aware of is the dramatic shift in the internal allocation of funds that has caused the cuts. In short, the schools used to receive 62% of student fees to do the actual teaching. Now they receive only 38%. Both figures have been based on the published UWS Budget documents from 2003 and 2012.
Full working, referenced to the budgets, is attached. This has been checked by one of the accounting academics and is correct.
[add personalized paragraph if you wish]
[Salutation]
[Signature]
List of MPs:
penrith@parliament.nsw.gov.au
easthills@parliament.nsw.gov.au
linda.burney@parliament.nsw.gov.au
strathfield@parliament.nsw.gov.au
oatley@parliament.nsw.gov.au
ryde@parliament.nsw.gov.au
campbelltown@parliament.nsw.gov.au
baulkhamhills@parliament.nsw.gov.au
heathcote@parliament.nsw.gov.au
lakemba@parliament.nsw.gov.au
menai@parliament.nsw.gov.au
granville@parliament.nsw.gov.au
cabramatta@parliament.nsw.gov.au
parramatta@parliament.nsw.gov.au
ElectorateOffice.Liverpool@parliament.nsw.gov.au
macquariefields@parliament.nsw.gov.au
bankstown@parliament.nsw.gov.au
camden@parliament.nsw.gov.au
castlehill@parliament.nsw.gov.au
auburn@parliament.nsw.gov.au
toongabbie@parliament.nsw.gov.au
blacktown@parliament.nsw.gov.au
smithfield@parliament.nsw.gov.au
bluemountains@parliament.nsw.gov.au
drummoyne@parliament.nsw.gov.au
epping@parliament.nsw.gov.au
hawkesbury@parliament.nsw.gov.au
fairfield@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Can you post a link to the university budget? The 2003-2012 comparison is interesting. I would like to try to pull out similar figures for UWS compared to other universities. Interesting comparisons might be Deakin University which ranks similarly to UWS in most performance measures, and maybe a university that ranks consistently higher but not highest (say Monash maybe?).