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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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The view from the dean’s office
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.
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‘Beware of oysters’ and other remedies for donor threats to academic freedom
Ultimately, the three best defences are good policies, good communication and good habits.
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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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Meet Marie-Eve Sylvestre, the new University of Ottawa president who sees a world of possibilities
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Meet Wisdom Tettey, Carleton University’s new president
Transformation through education.
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Thompson Rivers University seeks experts to shape the future of online education
Subject matter experts collaborate with instructional designers to create high quality content for online courses.
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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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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.
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Avoiding communications snafus in the era of COVID-19
Is this thing on?
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Academic freedom in the time of coronavirus
As universities respond to COVID-19, they must be guided by their core values of social responsibility, accountability and equitable access – all of which support suspending on-campus teaching and learning.
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From pining to a saw-off: campus free speech news as we begin 2020
Surprise Alberta court decision released just days into the new year could have a huge impact on universities.
