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It’s time to boycott U.S. conferences
As trade hostilities continue, we shouldn’t use taxpayers’ dollars to travel stateside.
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Quebec’s proposed Constitution sparks universities’ opposition
Provincial government amends the bill's controversial section 5 after outrage from the higher education sector.
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Defending the Academy
Current challenges offer opportunity to reassert our public purpose.
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Critics mull challenge to Ontario’s Bill 33
Government regulation of student fees, admissions criteria, cause controversy around new provincial education law.
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The high price of donations
Even when it doesn’t improperly interfere in academic searches and tenure files, some kinds of donor funding routinely threaten academic freedom in a range of ways.
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The possible excesses of academic freedom, put into perspective
Academic freedom means academics can reflect on any topic, but can they fuel racist thinking?
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Two misconceptions about ‘collegial governance’
Academic staff are not only employees; they are also the ‘collegium’ charged with the academic governance of universities.
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On the uses and abuses of ‘academic freedom’
When we invoke academic freedom as a way of defending our own peccadillos, we render universities into petty fiefdoms and academic freedom into a bludgeon.
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How to fight antisemitism without threatening
academic freedomAn examination of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism.
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Students and the freedom to learn
What ever happened to students’ academic freedom?
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Rediscovering the truth-seeking mission of universities
The notion that universities exist, first and foremost, to discover and impart knowledge is no longer in vogue. That’s a tragedy.
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Learning to say goodbye to academic freedom
It is an adjustment when an academic becomes a senior administrator, as they don’t have the same academic freedoms they did as professors.
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Academic freedom and the N-word
Just because professors may say the N-word doesn’t mean they should.
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Should sports coaches have academic freedom?
A recent case that has rocked the Canadian varsity running world raises questions about which university personnel should have academic freedom.
