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Academic freedom, Ethics, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Debwewin: to speak the truth – Nishnabek de’bwewin: telling our truths

David Newhouse

Indigenous perspectives on truth, academic freedom, and tenure have only recently started to be meaningfully reflected in academic discourse. If embraced, these […]

Faculty associations, Free speech and expression rights

Freedom with limits? The role faculty associations play protecting the speech rights of their members

Linda Rose-Krasnor and Michelle Webber

Faculty associations represent a diverse and engaged membership. The campus speech debate presents new challenges, but faculty associations already have tools to […]

Academic freedom, Free speech and expression rights, Politics

A manufactured crisis: the Ford government’s troubling free speech mandate

James L. Turk

The Ontario government is requiring the province’s public universities and colleges to develop new free speech policies or lose funding. Are these […]

Equity and social justice, Free speech and expression rights

The alt-right and the weaponization of free speech on campus

Jasmin Zine

The free speech debate is being used to normalize hate and bigotry on our campuses. It’s important to understand the threat that […]

Equity and social justice, Faculty associations

We were a strong union before Janus, and we will be a strong union after Janus

Andrea Calver

The Janus decision has made it more challenging for public sector unions to be effective in the US. Seeing this threat coming, […]

Editorial Matters: Something to talk about

Ben Lewis

Over the past few years, the debate about freedom of speech on university campuses has increased in intensity. Often sparked by high […]

Editorial Matters: The slow erosion of public university funding

Ben Lewis

Ontario’s public universities are vital institutions that deliver education to thousands of students, produce thought-provoking and groundbreaking research, and provide good jobs […]

Funding, Research and innovation

The case for publicly funded universities

Graham Cox

Ontario’s universities are important public spaces that depend on robust public funding to thrive. When the structure of the funding model changes, […]

Contract faculty, Funding, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics

It’s time to invest in a faculty renewal strategy for Ontario’s universities

Gyllian Phillips

For years, full-time faculty hiring has stagnated at Ontario’s universities, even as student enrolment has increased dramatically. It’s time for the government […]

Funding