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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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Testing limits: navigating the complex web of national security, research and diversity
Canada is balancing security imperatives and the need for diversity in academic research. How do we maintain our global commitments while protecting our national interests?
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Balancing respect and freedom in an era of global tensions
When international conflicts arise, Canadian universities have to juggle free speech and academic freedom, while also managing external pressures.
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Defending academic freedom
David Robinson, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, shares his thoughts on how the debate over the Israel-Hamas conflict is threatening fundamental principles of academia.
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Academic freedom, scholarly responsibility and the new gender wars
Issues around gender identity, and transgender and nonbinary people have become a battleground for academic freedom and freedom of expression on campus.
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Looking ahead in higher ed: what keeps University Affairs’ columnists up at night?
At a panel discussion at Congress, three academics reflect on the challenges facing universities.
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Sometimes refraining from speech is good
If no one listens, no ideas are exchanged. And to listen, one must be quiet.
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In the face of dangerous questions, turn to core values
To defend the values at the heart of the university, we must first understand them. Here’s a resource that can help.
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Academic freedom is caught in a triangle of threats
A dissection of three talks presented at the recent Harry Crowe conference in Toronto.
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Two kinds of academic freedom? Lessons from a scholar who fled Turkey
Should there be a separate conception of academic freedom for precarious and independent scholars?
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The price of academic freedom
Because we most often invoke it when it’s threatened, we tend to focus more on the rights associated with academic freedom than on the reason we have it to begin with.
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My office door and the campus free speech crisis that never was
For reasons of naiveté or worse, the media and the public have been taken in by the view that there is a free speech crisis on campus.
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Academic freedom in a non-ideal world
Understanding what academic freedom is ideally meant to do can help us understand its contours, and how to best defend it.
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A brief history of academic freedom
If engaging with the public is indeed part of the job of the professor, then universities ought to protect professors who take up the task.
