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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">There is an interesting discussion in response to the CMS' editorial on "Program prioritization and the value of service teaching" (</span><a href="https://cms.math.ca/notes/v47/n2/Notesv47n2.pdf" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">https://cms.math.ca/notes/v47/n2/Notesv47n2.pdf</a><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">).
Something we all are thinking about in mathematics departments across the country as units scramble for funding.</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">See the blog post by Prof Francois Bergeron, UQAM, at </span><br style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">
<a href="http://nghoussoub.com/2015/03/28/on-the-clientele-based-logic-in-redefining-academic-units/" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">http://nghoussoub.com/2015/03/28/on-the-clientele-based-logic-in-redefining-academic-units/</a><br style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">where he argues against reducing mathematics to an ancillary service to the university.</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Cheers,</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Michael Lamoureux</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Dept Mathematics and Statistics</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">University of Calgary</span>
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