We, Purdue Creative Writing students, ask for your help in objecting to the inevitable closure of the Creative Writing MFA Program as a result of the administration’s defunding of graduate education within the English Department. #SavePurdueCW

The Purdue CLA Graduate Student Town Hall is a GREAT place to remind everybody why the English Department is important and needs to be saved! Share your concerns and raise your questions about what’s being done to help save the arts. March 1, 1:30-2:30pm STEW 320 #SavePurdueCW

Huge petition update! Thanks for your support, and keep spreading the word! #SavePurdueCW

We spy some current & former Sycamore Review editors & readers in this thread! Have you signed our petition yet? Help us #SaveSycamore and #SavePurdueCW https://t.co/Lzf99zciXH https://t.co/Lzf99zciXH https://t.co/Lzf99zciXH https://t.co/Lzf99zciXH

For those of you who haven't signed yet, here's another good statement from a good org on why we need to save #purdue's MFA program If you've signed but not emailed, not only does this have the appropriate emails at which to send rage, but also a template email to use and tweak!

AWP Executive Director Cynthia Sherman invites AWP members to speak up to support Purdue's MFA program. Read the full statement on our website: https://t.co/Jt7qLk18t7

Please keep spreading the word about the de facto shuttering of the Purdue MFA program. Retweet. Sign the petition. Write an email.

I got my MFA in fiction from Purdue in 2011. So sad to hear the program is in peril now, to know many of the good ppl involved, and to consider what this one case might mean for the humanities nationwide. #SavePurdueCW https://t.co/1lbTAcUsVN

Sign the petition if you haven't! We need to support these students and the literary arts. #savepurduecw

Thank you @awpwriter for your support as we all attempt to #SavePurdueCW. Follow the link for AWP’s full statement.

AWP strongly opposes @Purdue's sudden decision to cut funding for its distinguished MFA Program & @SycamoreReview. AWP staff & board have added their signatures to this petition & encourage AWP members & friends to sign & share this petition with others.

2) second reason was best stated elsewhere by wonderful @annaleahy14:

1/2 For those who are following @LifeAtPurdue's absolutely disgraceful actions towards its English department (yes, 100s of us are following), here is an interesting article. Interesting for two reasons: 1) Marianne Boruch is a brilliant a beloved poet https://t.co/G7g6WfWC6M

@RebeccaBednarz Hi, Rebecca. AWP strongly opposes Purdue’s sudden decision to cut funding for its MFA Program and its literary magazine @SycamoreReview. We have been in direct contact with program leadership to offer support and to help restore needed funding for Purdue MFA students.

We’re glad to have our faculty’s support—and yours, too. Sign the petition to #SavePurdueCW if you haven’t already: