<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>I share below with the permission of the president of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Prof. Alicia Beckford Wassink an excerpt from the
April LSA newsletter that is likely to be of particular interest to list members. Every voice matters in communicating the value of research on language and linguistics, whether direct communication with your senators and representatives or government officials, public communication, or sharing the information with colleagues.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Francis</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center">* * * </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The proposed federal budget would slash NSF funding by more than half. NSF's appointed leadership is not waiting for Congress to pass a budget. Multiple sources have told us that behind closed doors, they are rapidly moving to eliminate the entire the entire Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, including both the <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/linguistics?mc_cid=3db4ae2210&mc_eid=f1cc3b3b6a" target="_blank">Linguistics Program</a> and the <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/dli-del-nsf-dynamic-language-infrastructure-neh-documenting?mc_cid=3db4ae2210&mc_eid=f1cc3b3b6a" target="_blank">DLI-DEL Program</a>. <br><br>As officers of the LSA, we are asking you to take three actions: <br><br>1. Write to the NSF Linguistics Program staff. Ask questions and express your concern. Send your email to Wilson de Lima Silva (<a href="mailto:widelima@nsf.org" target="_blank">widelima@nsf.org</a>) and Kenyatta Johnson (<a href="mailto:kenjohns@nsf.gov" target="_blank">kenjohns@nsf.gov</a>). <br> <br>2. Make your voice heard in Congress through the COSSA Action Alert <a href="https://cossa.org/action-center/take-action/?mc_cid=3db4ae2210&mc_eid=f1cc3b3b6a#/58" target="_blank">below</a>. We need to tell Congress to save the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate and the programs within it.<br> <br>3. Help us flood the internet with positive stories that show why the world needs linguists. The LSA is participating in a <a href="https://www.acls.org/TalkAboutHumanities/?mc_cid=3db4ae2210&mc_eid=f1cc3b3b6a" target="_blank">campaign</a> organized by the ACLS [American Council of Learned Societies]. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div><font size="2"><b>Francis M. Hult, PhD, FRGS</b> </font><font size="2"><span>|</span></font><b> </b>Professor</div><div>Department of Education</div><div>University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)</div><div><br></div><div>Editor, <a href="https://www.springer.com/series/5894" target="_blank">Educational Linguistics Book Series</a> <br></div><div>Co-Editor, <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/16644" target="_blank">Contributions to the Sociology of Language Book Series</a></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://education.umbc.edu/faculty-list/francis-m-hult/" target="_blank">Web Profile</a> <span>|</span> <a href="http://umbc.academia.edu/FrancisMHult" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a> | <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2x7pOMwAAAAJ&h" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a> | <a href="http://tesol.umbc.edu/" target="_blank">TESOL@UMBC</a></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4x6A7feW5AMw0k8d_RBIpmS7TpRdADyhZH2v4Hke0FycOyMXDENqrYd7BuX5J3H6O_RGuDmWJw" width="62" height="96"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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