Extra! Extra! SSHRC Grants May Be Decimated!!

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Consider signing this petition and circulate widely:

The Federal Budget presented on January 27th contains a sentence that has
the potential to halt funding research in the humanities and social
sciences and focus it solely on business-related research. Niki Ashton,
Member of Parliament - Churchill (NDP), has created an online petition to
help support university based research in the humanities and social
sciences. The petition is below, and the web-based address to submit your
name to the petition is:

http://nikiashton.ndp.ca/sshrc

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Petition in Support of the 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”[1].

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


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Just thought I'd pass that along. Please circulate it widely. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon.

[1] Emphasis added.