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Forum: Academic Freedom, equity and unions
Academic freedom is a hot topic in Canadian universities. This month's CAUT bulletin featured three stories on academic freedom issues: at University of Lethbridge, the RCMP quizzed a professor about his part in organizing a conference on indigenous rights that coincided with the Quebec City Summit; at the University of Waterloo, an arbitrator decided that a Dean could claim to be exercising academic freedom in overturning a professor's grading; and at Simon Fraser University, a Dean overturned a department's unanimous recommendation that David Noble (one of York's own) be appointed as the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities. YUFA is pleased to present a forum on Academic Freedom: Equity & Union issues. We bring you five speakers from York, Ryerson, and U of T who will speak on anti-racist and First People's perspectives on academic freedom and on the role of unions and associations in three Toronto-area academic freedom cases (Gerald Hannon's at Ryerson in 1995; Nancy Olivieri's and Denise Réaume's current cases at U of T).
The details follow. Please post this announcement to students, colleagues, and others who may be interested.
The York University Faculty Association presents
ACADEMIC FREEDOM: EQUITY & UNION ISSUES
Wednesday, May 2
1pm - 3pm
Senate Chamber, 940 North Ross Building
Teferi Adem
Advisor, Centre for Race & Ethnic Relations, York University
*Anti-racist perspectives on academic freedom and the university
environment
Peter Cole
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, York University *First
Peoples' scholarship: academic freedom, equity and non-western research
Gerald Hannon
Journalist, former Instructor, Ryerson Polytechnic University *On his
suspension in 1995 following the men loving boys/prostitution scandal
Allison Hudgins
Senior Counsel, University of Toronto Faculty Association *On the
Nancy Olivieri and Hospital for Sick Children case and its implications
for independent research
Marion Perrin
Counsel, University of Toronto Faculty Association *On the case of
Denise Réaume, professor at U of T Law School, whose students falsified
their grades in applying for jobs