Topic: Free speech and expression rights

Free speech and expression rights, Teaching and learning

Mentorship Matters: The Case for Graduate Professional Development

Reinhart Reithmeier & Christopher Kelleher

Today, the majority of PhD graduates will not become university professors. Two reasons for this are glaringly simple: professors are not retiring […]

Environmental sustainability, Free speech and expression rights, Politics

Harper’s attack on science: No science, no evidence, no truth, no democracy

Carol Linnitt

Science—and the culture of evidence and inquiry it supports—has a long relationship with democracy. Widely available facts have long served as a […]

Illustration of a couple about to kiss superimposed on a stop sign

Academic mentorship, Editorials, Free speech and expression rights

Policing Professors

Rebecca Coulter

The nature of the current push to police the lives of professors and students provides a salutary lesson about unintended consequences.

Free speech and expression rights, Politics

Guilty: Student Victims and Ann Coulter’s Assault on the University of Western Ontario

Craig Butosi

Shortly after her visit to the University of Western Ontario, media outlets began to document the more controversial aspects of Ann Coulter.

Contract faculty, Ethics, Free speech and expression rights, Teaching and learning

Equity, ethics, academic freedom and the employment of contingent academics

Linda Muzzin

The recent York University strike by contingent faculty has provided a focal point for discussion in my evening graduate course, “Faculty in […]

Free speech and expression rights, International issues, Online education, Students, Technology

Global souls and youth moves

Vinita Srivastava

Youth Moves, an anthology edited by Nadine Dolby and Fazal Rizvi (Routledge, 2008)