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Defending the Academy
Current challenges offer opportunity to reassert our public purpose.
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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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Carnegie Mellon’s ill-considered damage control
What the university could have done better to protect academic freedom after a professor’s controversial tweet went viral.
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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.
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Free speech on campus: The age-old debate rages on
Clashes over the limits of free speech continue to divide students and faculty.
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The theatrics of the Ford government regarding free speech on campus
Most with a working knowledge of higher education would agree we are nowhere near a free speech crisis in colleges and universities, let alone one justifying government intervention.
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First dispatch: Academic freedom and the mission of the university
A better understanding of the mission of universities, and of the role that academic freedom plays within that mission, puts us in a better position to support university scholars and the work that they do.
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The opportunity cost to doing scientific research at a university
Translational research should be scientist-driven and institutionally supported, not the other way around.
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Academic freedom: can history be our guide?
Over the years, academic freedom has been both recognized and constrained, based on the particular historical context.
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Jordan Peterson’s personal crusade against the postmodern left
His characterization of postmodernism, however, appears rather suspect.
