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Just a note on Dr. Henry Srebrnik’s opinion piece in Friday’s Guardian regarding the forced retirement of faculty at the age of 65. As a student I have seen this first hand and it is absolutely heartbreaking that UPEI carries on such an age discriminatory policy. There are amazing professors who care deeply about their students and who have an unparalleled love of teaching and depth of knowledge who are forced to retire and in some instances are lost to other universities either somewhere else in Canada or abroad. For such a quickly growing university with enrolments seeing an all-time high, why must they continue this policy? To have the best professors one can imagine going overnight from full-time academic and member of the UPEI community to a sessional teacher who has to scramble to get 10 students in a class so it won’t be cancelled is unacceptable. UPEI must change this policy.