This page is a sub-section of the Open Letter to Senate: Six Reasons Why it is Wrong to Freeze BFA Admissions Without Academic Process, by Mark Jones (4 December 2011).
3. The Gender Reason. Ninety-five percent of Queen’s BFA students are women. Is this a reason to cut, or not to cut? The new “Academic Plan” has much to say, meanwhile, about supporting “women in academe.”