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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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Political turbulence poses threats, opportunities
Université de Montréal rector Daniel Jutras reflects on how Canadian universities are reacting to events in the U.S. and the grounds for optimism amid the turmoil.
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Rewriting history by decree
Canadian historians caution against U.S. trend of political interference
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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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Canada’s new definition of anti-Semitism is a threat to campus free speech
The definition adopted from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance is alarmingly vague and easily misinterpreted.
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Three ways professors can support academic freedom as we head back to school
Academic freedom is not merely a negotiated perk of being a professor, it is a sine qua non of the university’s mission.
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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.
