Faculty Association President Karen Shortt

Faculty Association President Karen Shortt: Faculty Association President Karen Shortt says about 72 staff members will get layoff notices in June and the program will close entirely in December. , according to CBC. At the time, the province said Ottawa was in discussions with not-for-profit community groups who would bid for government contracts to take over the delivery of ESL services. Vancouver Community College teachers were told at a staff meeting late Thursday that funding for the college English as a second language program will run out in December. 'When we were given $8 million in transitional funding from the government we didn't realize it was a transition to zero,' - Karen Shortt, VCC Faculty Association President The federal government announced in 2012 that it would cancel the Canada-B.C. Immigration Agreement which funded ESL training. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.