Briefs and Reports

Auditing a collective agreement for equity

The four pillars of academic freedom are academic freedom in teaching, academic freedom in research, intramural academic freedom, and extramural academic freedom.

To fulfil their mission of preserving, sharing, and advancing knowledge, universities and colleges must ensure that academic staff enjoy academic freedom.

Universities and colleges in recent decades have increasingly employed academics on part-time and fixed-term teaching contracts. It is estimated that about one-third to one-half of academic staff in Canada today are on short-term and precarious contracts.

A collection of academic freedom inquiries and reports.

Historic Academic Freedom Cases in Canada (1980-2010)

Historical Academic Freedom Cases in Canada (1958-1980)

Inquiries, reports and discussion papers.

Major cases from Harry Crowe (United College) in 1958 to Dr. Valentina Azarova (University of Toronto) in 2020.

At its core, academic freedom ensures that in their teaching, research, scholarship, publication, creative expression, participation in the affairs of the university, and exercise of their rights as citizens, academics are not curtailed, disciplined, or censored.