Congratulations to Frenand Léger, who was recently awarded two grants for curriculum development and pedagogical innovation !

Congratulations to our colleague Frenand Léger, who was recently awarded two grants for curriculum development and pedagogical innovation !

Frenand is one of this year recipients of the Carleton’s CU-CUASA Special Fund for EDI Research and Pedagogical Innovation Recipients for his project “Fostering Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity in Higher Education French Second Language textbooks“. Frenand’s project aims to create an experiential, decolonized French as a Second Language textbook for Higher Education in Canada, incorporating Black, Indigenous, Feminist and Queer perspectives, while promoting inclusive language to better reflect gender, sexual and cultural diversity.

Frenand has also received the FUSION Skills Development Fund to implement the Inclusivity module in FREN 2110 French 4: Writing for 2025-26.