CASC Calls for Censure of U of Regina Faculty and Public Forum Over Project Hero
Members of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee calls on the University of Regina to publicly censure faculty who have asked for a withdrawal of the Project Hero scholarship program.
Thanks in no small part to our brave Canadian soldiers, an ever-growing number of Afghans have access to health care, education, economic opportunities and increasingly, to the rights and freedoms that we take for granted here in Canada.
The Project Hero program is an excellent program that gives something back to those families who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the cause of freedom.
There is something perverse in faculty of a university calling for the end of education supports for those whose families have given so much for this country. Even worse, the ludicrous and buffoonish characterization by supposedly educated people that our engagement is a wicked “imperialist” venture calls into question these critics’ abilities as critical thinkers and as educators.
Their uninformed analysis ignores the views of Afghans on the matter, and their extremist, relativist views make a mockery of scholarship. An embarrassment to Canada, they are sending out the message that human rights, security and peace are only for those in the West.
As such, we ask that the University’s President Vianne Timmons take this opportunity to make the university’s position clear and publicly rebuke the following faculty for their outrageous and shameful stance:
Joyce Green, Department of Political Science
J.F. Conway, Department of Sociology and Social Studies
George Buri, Department of History
Emily Eaton, Department of Geography
Jeffery R. Webber, Department of Political Science
David Webster, International Studies
Annette Desmarais, International Studies
Darlene Juschka, Women’s and Gender Studies and Religious Studies
Meredith Rogers Cherland, Faculty of Education
Garson Hunter, Social Work
John W. Warnock, Department of Sociology and Social Studies
William Arnal, Department of Religious Studies
Leesa Streifler, Department of Visual Arts
Carol Schick, Faculty of Education
Ken Montgomery, Faculty of Education
André Magnan, Department of Sociology and Social Studies
CASC also calls for a public forum at the University of Regina on Canada’s positive role in Afghanistan, including participation by Afghan-Canadians able to articulate the welcome effects of that effort, to be held this semester before exams begin.
Posted by Jonathon Narvey on March 31, 2010 - 9:39am
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- Project Hero University of ReginaMembers of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee calls on the University of Regina to publicly censure faculty who have asked for a withdrawal of the Project Hero scholarship program. Thanks in no small part to our
- the ludicrous and buffoonish characterization by supposedly educated people that our engagement is a wicked “imperialist” venture calls into question these critics’ abilities as critical thinkers and as educators. T
- to the rights and freedoms that we take for granted here in Canada. The Project Hero program is an excellent program that gives something back to those families who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the cause of freedom. There is something perverse in f
