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Leftover tenure ends when the truck has passed

Leftover tenure ends when the truck has passed

A School of Emergent Priorities campaign for the Master of Priority Studies treats the bin-night collection cutoff as the moment leftover tenure ends.

A Master of Priority Studies campaign this spring treats the bin-night cutoff as the end of fridge-shelf eligibility

A leftover still on the fridge shelf after the collection truck has passed is no longer a leftover the Trajectory Analytics Group will ratify. Fridge-shelf eligibility ends at that cutoff, and the next week’s meal plan does not get to plan around what missed the truck.

The School of Emergent Priorities has put that rule on the University’s signage rotation this spring, as the public face of the Master of Priority Studies intake. Hedvig Anyanwu, Doctoral Candidate in the School, is the researcher the campaign carries.

The leftover that is still there after the truck has gone is the one a meal plan still has to answer to.

— Hedvig Anyanwu, Doctoral Candidate, School of Emergent Priorities

The campaign takes the pause between a fridge door closing and a collection truck passing, and reads that pause as the moment leftover tenure ends. The Group has adopted the cutoff as a standing condition, with no restored-tenure exception for an item that missed the truck.

The intake is how the School lets a household cutoff occupy the screens the University already runs. Professor Verity Marris, Director of the Trajectory Analytics Group, said the Group had been waiting for a public form that would let the cutoff sit in front of people who still have a fridge.

The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.eeb194.