If this is truly an expansion of service for students and will provide the administrative support the WC so desperately deserves, then I am happy. But I have one concern...

"...there are not any layoffs associated with the transformation to the Academic Success Centre."

Anyone familiar with the Writing Centre or clever enough to use the directory knows that there are 6 faculty members working in the WC. Maybe I need a math tutor because I did not think 1 (faculty) + 2 (staff) = 6. You can speak in veiled terms of full-time equivalent positions all you want, but at the end of the day these employees are individual people, not a set number of equivalents.

The institution is glossing over the apparent position loss. Are these amazing faculty members not considered "laid off" because they don't hold permanent contracts? Are they being reassigned to another area of the university? Even if they are being reassigned, they are still losing their positions because there will not be comparable ones outside of the Academic Success Centre. I understand that the administration may be hesitant to detail "human resource considerations" considering the budget and employment climate at this university for the past few years, but this brazen misinformation does not sit well either.