[SDH/SEMI Members] FW: FYI - Petition to remove exclusive SSHRC focus on business degrees

[Ray Siemens]

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From: Christian Vandendorpe [mailto:christian.vandendorpe at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:25 AM
Subject: Fwd: FYI - Petition to remove exclusive SSHRC focus on business
degrees

 


To sign the petition:
http://nikiashton.ndp.ca/sshrc



   To the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled

We, the undersigned residents of Canada, wish to bring to your attention
the following:

For more than thirty years, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council (SSHRC) has been promoting and supporting university-based
research and training in the humanities and social sciences. SSHRC
funding has been used to complete ground breaking research in countless
areas in Canada and around the world.

The Federal Budget presented on January 27th contains a sentence that
has the potential to halt this kind of research: "Scholarships granted
by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will be focused
on business-related degrees".

These measures are backward and insulting to the thousands of Canadians
that are students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

THEREFORE, we petitioners are calling upon the government to remove this
sentence from the 2009 Budget and ensure that SSHRC funding not be
allocated to one specific discipline but to the range of studies in the
social sciences and humanities.

http://nikiashton.ndp.ca/sshrc


Niki Ashton is an NDP MP (Churchill)

Parliament Hill:
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Ashton.N at parl.gc.ca

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