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‘It is despicable and perplexing that Goldsmiths is exploiting the generalised sense of crisis in the higher education sector to burn down its own house. We call on the institution’s senior management to immediately halt its arsonist ‘Transformation Programme’ and work with us to protect jobs.’
This type of peer counseling session is relatively common at San Quentin these days, where hundreds of volunteers come in every week to help people heal and prepare to reenter society. The prison is so well-known for its rehabilitative culture that Gov. Gavin Newsom last year formally renamed it a “rehabilitation center.” The governor also uses it as the centerpiece for his “California Model,” which focuses on humanizing incarcerated people and normalizing positive interactions between them and the guards.
Michael Bruneau, president and chief executive officer of Aurora Recovery Centre — a private drug and alcohol treatment centre north of Gimli — purchased 23 units at 873 Waverley St., with plans to renovate and rent the suites out as the Aurora Family Reunification Village, in which children would live with their parents who were undergoing treatment.
Another step officials say will help address student safety this year is that there are now eight police social workers with CCSD PD.
Columbia’s AAUP chapter has received numerous reports of individuals, both inside and outside of the University, calling for the sanctioning or dismissal of specific Columbia faculty members, according to its statement. The statement reads that the calls for “punitive action” have been based on the comments faculty members have made in the public sphere, classroom, and “in response to faculty efforts to de-escalate provocations during campus protests.”
