"Subject: Petition to stop SSHRC money being hijacked for business degrees
Importance: High
Dear Friends and Associates:
The Conservative Government is making a move to divert scholarships granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council into
"business-related"degrees. This is outrageous political interference.
*Please consider signing this urgent petition and circulate widely.*
http://nikiashton.ndp.ca/sshrc
Linda Briskin
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
