University of Regina Professors Show Support For FNUC and Demand The Restoration Of Federal Funding
Written by Marc Spooner
Friday, 26 March 2010
University of Regina professors will be joining students and community leaders in their fight for justice. In a symbolic and tangible show of support U of R faculty will be sleeping over at FNUC on Monday, March 29th, 2010 starting a 7p.m.
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee and the CAUT Executive have voted to recommend lifting censure of the administration and board of First Nations University.-- Time to follow Advanced Education Minister Rob Norris’s lead and restore funding Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Minister Chuck Strahl.
The reasons that led to censure have been fully addressed by the
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, specifically that:
The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations has dissolved the
former Board of Governors and appointed an Interim Board along the lines
recommended by the All-Chiefs Task Force;
The Interim Board has dismissed the former president and the former
vice-president of administration and finance;
The FSIN, the First Nations University and the University of Regina
have reached agreement on a four-year transitional arrangement to ensure
appropriate financial management.
Stephen Harper, Mr. Prime Minister, empty government apologies are meaningless,
harmful and insulting even, when followed by vindictive and short-sighted cuts
to core funding leading to the almost certain demise of the First Nations
University of Canada. We cannot change the past, but we, as Canadians, can
certainly make positive contributions to the future. Restore the $7.2
million annual grant to the Fist Nations University, restore the New Buffalo at
once.
For more information please email or
Patrick Lewis at .
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