To the Editor:

I read with interest the article "MBA moving east" by Daniel McCabe in the last issue of the McGill Reporter. I focus, in particular, on the following comment: "The faculty (Management) is hoping that its Japanese program will be a money-maker, but its ultimate goal is more ambitious."

I am assuming that the "money-making" does not refer to the result of educating students in an effort to produce well-rounded, insightful graduates who will ultimately contribute to society as a whole and become tax-payers. Instead, I am assuming that "money-making" refers to high tuition  tuition that is high enough to make a profit for McGill. I am embarrassed that my university would even consider creating programs such as these in an effort to use students as cash cows to pay for our funding problems.

Instead of shipping off the professors who currently teach in publicly funded programs to teach in a private program, and instead of spending our time and efforts in creating such programs, McGill should be focusing its efforts on lobbying the federal government for increased funding for post-secondary education.

Anna Kruzynski
University and Academic Affairs Co-ordinator
Post-Graduate Students' Society