r/uwaterloo
budget cut bs
With all the budget cuts, departments are stretched thin, resources are getting slashed, and services have been getting shittier with every passing term. You can see it everywhere. Staff and students are getting burnt out, there's less support for students, and no one is in a mood to collaborate anymore. It feels like the whole university is just trying to stay afloat instead of actually thriving.
And don’t even get me started on how it feels like engineering is getting treated like royalty here. Seriously, we all know that Eng is prioritized over basically every other faculty, but it’s super frustrating when the university is out there trying to hype up how great it is across all its departments. If you really want to show how amazing UW is as a whole, then maybe treat all the faculties equally??? It's honestly such a joke at this point.
You can see it in the resources, the funding, even the attention from the administration. Especially this new math building during a literal budget deficit. It’s like, if you're not in Eng, good luck. It feels like every other faculty is just an afterthought, and it's honestly getting really old. There's this huge disconnect between the university's "everyone's amazing! look at how high we rank across the world!” marketing vs what’s actually happening behind the scenes. It’s all starting to feel like a huge act, and the cracks are starting to show.
I’m sick of seeing good people across campus losing their love of supporting students and I’m sick of getting a shitty education to go along with it.
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