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September 11, 2020

Wilfrid Laurier Provost supports participation in Scholar Strike

Wilfrid Laurier Provost supports participation in Scholar Strike SAFS letter to Wilfrid Laurier University: – September 11, 2020 Statement on the Scholars Strike by Provost Anthony Vannelli: Professors for academic freedom lambast Laurier University for leftist ‘Scholars Strike’ and propagandist teaching: Joe Vaughan (The Post Millennial) – September 14, 2020 ‘Scholar strike’ institutionalized propagandist teaching […]

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September 09, 2020

Laurentian University dean David Lesbarrères forced to step down for “inappropriate and offensive tweet”

Laurentian University dean David Lesbarrères forced to step down for “inappropriate and offensive tweet” SAFS letter to Laurentian re David Lesbarrères: – September 9, 2020 Statement from the President and Vice-Chancellor: Robert Haché – June 9, 2020 Statement from the President and Vice-Chancellor, June 22, 2020: Robert Haché – June 22, 2020 Laurentian University dean […]

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September 09, 2020

Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University encourages its members to participate in Scholar Strike

Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University encourages its members to participate in Scholar Strike SAFS letter to Schulich School of Law re scholarstrike : – September 9, 2020 From the Office of the Dean, Schulich School of Law: Richard Devlin, FRSC – September 7, 2020

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July 29, 2020

Fast-track program to Queen’s University medical school restricted to Black and Indigenous students

Fast-track program to Queen’s University medical school restricted to Black and Indigenous students SAFS letter to Jane Philpott, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, regarding restricting entrance to QuARMS by race or ethnicity: – July 29, 2020 Queen’s University Accelerated Route to Medical School (QuARMS): Queen’s University website Queen’s University offers fast-tracked medical program exclusively to […]

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July 27, 2020

Thompson Rivers University suspends economics professor Derek Pyne for a year

Thompson Rivers University suspends economics professor Derek Pyne for a year SAFS letter to Thompson Rivers University re suspension of Derek Pyne: – July 27, 2020 TRU suspends professor at centre of academic freedom debate, citing Facebook post: James Peters (CFJC Today) – July 16, 2020 TRU professor says he has been suspended for a […]

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June 26, 2020

Open letters in response to university statements on racism

Open letters in response to university statements on racism Letter from Haskell and McNally to President MacLatchy, Wilfrid Laurier University: – June 26, 2020 Letter of dissent to PR and the MRFA: Sinclair MacRae – June 17, 2020 I Must Object: Glenn C Loury – June 5, 2020 Reply from President MacLatchy: – July 3, […]

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June 05, 2020

Brock Provost issues letter condemning chemistry professor Tomáš Hudlický’s views of diversity, inclusion, and equity and the teacher-student relation

Brock Provost issues letter condemning chemistry professor Tomáš Hudlický’s views of diversity, inclusion, and equity and the teacher-student relation SAFS letter to Provost Finn re “open letter”: – June 9, 2020 Statement by Brock University: – June 5, 2020 An open letter to the Brock community: Provost Gregory Finn – June 7, 2020 A Statement […]

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June 02, 2020

Anthropology professor removed from position as Associate Chair because of student objections to her views

Anthropology professor removed from position as Associate Chair because of student objections to her views SAFS letter to Dean of Arts at the University of Alberta re the removal of Kathleen Lowrey as Associate Chair of Anthropology: – June 5, 2020 Academic Freedom and Perceptions of Harm: Carolyn Sale (Centre for Free Expression) – June […]

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April 14, 2020

Brock University restricts search for Canada Research Chair to disabled scholars

Brock University restricts search for Canada Research Chair to disabled scholars SAFS letter to Gervan Fearon, President Brock University: – April 14, 2020 Internal Call for Canada Research Chair: (Brock University)

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March 30, 2020

Dalhousie removes instructor over Pass/Fail grading

Dalhousie removes instructor over Pass/Fail grading SAFS Letter to Leslie Phillmore, Acting Associate Dean (Academic), Dalhousie University: – March 30, 2020 Response from Dalhousie University to SAFS: – March 31, 2020

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