Students, faculty and alumni say they were caught off-guard by decision to merge Brescia into Western.
  • N-E-N
    20·
    1 year ago

    Kinda conflicted here. Universities segregated based on sex/gender seem unnecessary to me, and merging with Western doesn’t sound like a terrible plan.

    But also I suspect this is done more for profit so I’m not convinced the merge will be handled well

  • rbesfe
    181·
    1 year ago

    It sucks when any school has to close or merge with another, but I don’t think this one deserves any special attention just because it was gender segregated. Aren’t women outnumbering men in university population anyways?

    Edit: Yup

    • osmac
      4·
      1 year ago

      Outnumbered by a fairly large margin too.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    151·
    1 year ago

    I admit that there may be some virtue in terms of safety at an all girls’ school… but gender exclusive institutions are still pretty cringe-worthy.

      • bionicjoey
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, as someone who went to Huron (which is right next door to Brescia and has a similar arrangement with Western), this isn’t a good thing. The Western affiliates (Huron, Brescia, Kings) are a great option for getting a university degree and benefitting from the resources of a university while still getting the smaller class sizes and more intimate feel of a college. I was even able to double major with a program on Western’s main campus. I got a management major from Huron and a Comp Sci major from Western.

  • frostbiker
    32·
    1 year ago

    I’m a disabled queer immigrant white dude that would cringe hard at the very notion of excluding somebody from a community just because they are able-bodied, straight, indigenous, non-white or female. Imagine a university that excluded non-whites – why should we tolerate universities that exclude men? It’s sexism plain and simple. It goes against every other progress we’ve made in civil rights in the last century.