Join Dr. Marc Spooner (University of Regina) and Stephen Hurley (voicEd Radio Canada) for an in-depth exploration of Academic Freedom on Canada's post-secondary landscape. Insightful guests and powerful case studies highlighting current tensions, new opportunities and ongoing challenges in protecting this important dimension of Canada's colleges and universities.
Demystifying Academic Freedom
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Join Dr. Marc Spooner (University of Regina) and Stephen Hurley (voicEd Radio Canada) for an in-depth exploration of Academic Freedom on Canada's post-secondary landscape. Insightful guests and powerful case studies highlighting current tensions, new opportunities and ongoing challenges in protecting this important dimension of Canada's colleges and universities.
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October 4, 2022
Episode Five - Clea Schmidt (University of Manitoba)
Dr. Clea Schmidt is Professor of Education at the University of Manitoba, where her research interests include diversity in the teaching force and the international mobility of educators and students from equity-seeking groups. <br /><br />Dr. Schmidt also serves on the Working Group on Academic Freedom at the Centre for Free Expression, Metropolitan University (Toronto). <br /><br />She is particularly interested in critically examining the intersection of academic freedom and university initiatives and policies such as respectful workplaces; trigger warnings; and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).<br /><br />Visit Dr. Schmidt's faculty page: <a href="https://umanitoba.ca/education/clea-schmidt" rel="noopener">https://umanitoba.ca/education/clea-schmidt</a>
September 15, 2022
Episode Four - Momin Rahman (Trent University)
Dr. Momin Rahman is a professor in the department of Sociology at Trent University. Dr. Rahman is also former co-chair of CAUT's National Committee on Equity. <br /><br />In this episode, we talk about the impact, challenges and opportunities associated with bringing an equity lens to the conversation and work of academic freedom. <br /><br />For more information about Dr. Rahman's work: <a href="https://www.trentu.ca/sociology/faculty-research" rel="noopener">https://www.trentu.ca/sociology/faculty-research</a><br /><br />For the latest from Dr. Marc Spooner: <a href="https://theconversation.com/criticisms-of-academic-freedom-miss-the-mark-and-risk-the-integrity-of-scholarship-189035" rel="noopener">https://theconversation.com/criticisms-of-academic-freedom-miss-the-mark-and-risk-the-integrity-of-scholarship-189035</a>
July 29, 2022
Episode Three - Ana Isla and June Corman (Brock University)
Ana Isla is Professor Emerita. Department of Sociology and the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies at Brock University.<br /><br />Dr. June Corman (Brock University) currently teaches graduate-level courses in research methods and research design, but has also taught undergraduate courses in women and work, family, and social inequality. <br /><br />Today, Drs. Isla and Corman tell a powerful story academic freedom related to a volunteer opportunity that was being offered through Brock University and that raised concerns, first among students who participated and, subsequently, among faculty members, including Drs. Isla and Corman.
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