Shannon Dea is the dean of arts and a professor of philosophy at the University of Regina.
Shannon Dea is the dean of arts and a professor of philosophy at the University of Regina.
Universities need to rethink student discipline when it comes to reinforcing academic integrity.
What the university could have done better to protect academic freedom after a professor’s controversial tweet went viral.
While my own academic freedom is less robust since becoming a senior administrator, I have loved finding new ways of defending academic freedom for others.
Ultimately, the three best defences are good policies, good communication and good habits.
We should use what we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to make university study and work more equitable and inclusive.
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.
Academic staff are not only employees; they are also the ‘collegium’ charged with the academic governance of universities.
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.
An examination of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism.
What ever happened to students’ 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.
