Vancouver Island University’s board of governors voted 7-6 on Thursday to shutter its longstanding music programs, which have been a staple of the institution since 1969, as a cost-cutting measure.
“We’ve just been continually cut, cut cut — another slice and another slice since after the strike,” she said. Several hundred letters of support were sent to the university board in support of VIU’s bachelor of music and jazz diploma programs before the decision, including from half a dozen Juno-award winners, a former conductor and musical director at the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, and a number of regional music groups and associations.
Prior to the vote on Thursday, Nanaimo MLA Sheila Malcolmson said in a statement that she had confidence in VIU’s ability to support all of its current students and for them to “make the music world brighter here in Nanaimo and beyond.”
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