CAUT Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages

with a commitment to retain a connection with the The federal government must work with provinces to historic Francophone communities in the region and ensure this funding is not left on the table, and the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of mechanisms should be explored to allow institutions archival and cultural material in those communities. [...] to access the funds directly, as in the case of the federal Canadian Association of University Teachers 2 Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages June Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment versa which will only continue to erode the vitality of Fund. [...] These challenges Investing in the Public Post-Secondary concern: 1) the on-campus support offered to French-speaking researchers; 2) access to resources for Education Model realizing research; 3) the dissemination of knowledge The increase in federal funding through the Official in French; and 4) the evaluation and valorization of Languages program, while critical, is not enough to research done i. [...] One important area for improvement Incentivize Francophone would be the protection of programs that promote the distribution of research in French, recognizing the Students to Study Their serious lack of specialized journals in French in some Language in Minority Contexts fields.3 Due to limited course and program options in particular fields of study, Francophone students in According to informat. [...] Université de Montréal, only 0.5 per cent of Quebec researchers’ articles in international journals in 2014 The House Official Languages Committee has already were in French in the field of natural and medical heard clear testimony from a number of witnesses that sciences, and just 9.4 per cent in the social sciences a lack of French post-secondary education and humanities.