The Department of Film asserts that, after four days of remediation, the
academic integrity of our courses has been deeply undermined by the
Institutional Remediation Guidelines from Senate Executive and the AMPD
Remediation Framework More…
Author: rgrinspun
Statement on Senate Policy and Actions Reply
A statement concerning the Senate Policy on Disruption with an updated list of endorsers (currently 121)
Links to important documents re CUPE 3903 strike Reply
This is an organized list of links related to the CUPE 3903 strike. If there are important documents that are not here, please send them, or the links, to Ricardo Grinspun (ricardo@yorku.ca).
257 YUFA members sign letter to Senate Executive and University Administration Reply
257 YUFA members and 6 retirees have signed an open letter to Senate Executive expressing extreme concern about the resumption of classes while the strike continues. The letter urges the University Administration to go back to the bargaining table and to make solid offers for a quick and fair settlement with CUPE Units 1 and 3.
Memo from Prof. Stephanie Ross to her students regarding the CUPE 3903 strike Reply
Dr. Henry Giroux Addresses the Ontario Common Front Assembly with a call for a new kind of politics Reply
On August 19, 2013 McMaster University Professor Henry Giroux spoke at the third Ontario Common Front General Assembly. ““I can’t think of a better way to defuse the possibility among young people of the radical imagination than to place them into so much debt that for the next 20 years, all they can basically think about is paying that debt back,” Giroux says early in the clip in a section called ‘Student Debt and Generational Welfare.'” Watch video here.
Industry Money Corrupts Science at University of Calgary Research Centre Reply
Oil and gas industry funding has corrupted research at the University of Calgary’s Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy (ISEEE), according to former head of the centre, climate scientist David Keith. More…
Academic precarity and academic freedom Reply
Bob Hanke
I would like to echo Prof. Emeritus J..D. Wood’s comment on a previous post by adding a ‘bottom up’ perspective on governance and academic freedom. While the faculty has mobilized and raised its voice against the CGI deal, this deal is only the tip of the iceberg of academic governance and freedom. More…
Unprecedented faculty mobilization achieves results: York terminates CIGI deal Reply
The following email was sent to York faculty on April 3, 2012, following York’s announcement that the CIGI-York agreement had been terminated, to thank those who made it possible through a strong and courageous mobilization.
Final list of signatories to the CIGI Letter of Concern 1
The following is the final list of 310 full-time faculty and librarians who signed the Open Letter of Concern regarding the CIGI-York University agreement.
YU Talk 