A professor at Memorial University’s Grenfell Campus says after some of his students met with President Janet Morrison, they told him that “Harlow is dead.”
The university, which is facing a deficit of millions, is mulling over the future of its Harlow Campus, located in the U.K.
Dr. Gerard Curtis regularly brings his students to Harlow.
Curtis says students were “shocked” at the results of their meetings with the MUN president, saying it appears as though the leadership of MUN already have their minds made up.
Curtis says it has been suggested that MUN use other university campuses in the U.K., such as Queen’s University, instead.
MUN’s Harlow Campus (Memorial University)
He calls that a “terrible idea,” believing that Queen’s students are the ones who should be heading to Harlow. He says the idea is the result of a “lack of vision,” and a “narrow” focus on the budget model they want to bring in. He calls that type of budget “cannibalizing” because “you start to chew your own.”
Talk of the end of the Harlow campus is affecting morale, according to Curtis.
He says morale is low, noting that Harlow is the reason many students go to Grenfell. “Now (students) are telling their friends that it’s not worthwhile.”
