Wed
Jun 11 2008
05:08 pm
Donation deed restriction saves UT hearing and speech clinic
By: R. Neal

WBIR has the press release and a report...

Cellphone pic emailed by the Mrs. earlier this afternoon:

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OK, that saves the clinic,

Submitted by Pam Strickland on Wed, 2008/06/11 - 6:13pm.

OK, that saves the clinic, but there's still the problem of the program. This is good, but the fight is far from over.

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

UT Budget Critic's picture

The Clinic is NOT saved by this!

Submitted by UT Budget Critic on Fri, 2008/06/13 - 11:03am.

R.Neal and Pam:

No, this is misleading. UT is still proposing to kill the entire academic program, and maintain only a vestigial piece of the clinical services - to "satisfy" the agreement.

The Hearing and Speech Center is NOT saved by this.

UT wants to turn it into some bastardized sort of private practice with NO UT student involvement or educational component. It would serve only a small number of the clients that are currently being served.

This could not be further from what the founding fathers of the program envisioned.

I encourage everyone here to continue blogging about the budget cuts, and to contact key decision makers in the process to voice your opposition to the UT proposals.

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