{"id":7847,"date":"2010-01-06T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2010-01-06T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:43:29","slug":"merging-departments-at-u-of-winnipeg-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/01\/merging-departments-at-u-of-winnipeg-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Merging departments at U of Winnipeg postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Free Press: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/local\/merging-departments-at-u-of-w-postponed-80048412.html\">THE University of Winnipeg has postponed a controversial plan to amalgamate its philosophy, classics and religious studies departments.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dean of arts David Fitzpatrick said he takes responsibility for misunderstandings and misconceptions that quickly developed on campus when he announced a plan in mid-November to merge the three into a new humanities department. Fitzpatrick said all three departments would remain as separate units, each chaired by a member of its department, at least for the current school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Free Press: THE University of Winnipeg has postponed a controversial plan to amalgamate its philosophy, classics and religious studies departments. Dean of arts David Fitzpatrick said he takes responsibility for misunderstandings and misconceptions that quickly developed on campus when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/01\/merging-departments-at-u-of-winnipeg-postponed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[1288933,6934,6933],"class_list":["post-7847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-academics","tag-department-merger","tag-u-of-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7848,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions\/7848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}