Last week I and a number of members of Canadians for Accountability attended the mandatory arbitration hearing for Denis Rancourt, who was fired by the University of Ottawa in 2009. The reason given was his pedagogy – which, contrary to university policy, included a simple pass/fail system in which those who passed got an A+. [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/10/17/denis-rancourt-vs-the-u-of-o-the-saga-continues/
This may seem like a small local story to many, but it actually deals with the important issues of academic freedom and university governance. Denis Rancourt, you see, was a tenured professor of physics at the U of O for almost 30 years. Then, in 2009, he was fired. The university claims that it was [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/05/06/media-update-for-may-6-2011/
On January 14, Denis Rancourt – the University of Ottawa’s notorious “activist teacher” – released a report detailing allegations that the University hired a spy to covertly monitor his activities in the period leading up his (contested) dismissal. The accused spy has denied the allegations, University officials have systematically declined to comment (or else ignored [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/02/27/cover-ups-101-at-university-of-ottawa/