The events at Capilano highlight growing concerns about how the proliferation of codes of civility and respectful workplace policies in universities and colleges can threaten free expression and academic freedom.

While utilitarian managerialism is the dominant ethos of most Canadian university administrations today, the administrative impulse to control is not new, nor is the principled opposition to it.

Feelings of frustration and compliance index some of the problems with the current system of social science ethics review identified in The Ethics Rupture.

Microaggressions have become the subject of intense scrutiny on university and college campuses. While today’s focus has only recently emerged, the literature on micro-aggressions dates back to the late 1960s.

One of the biggest mistakes that academic staff can make is to walk unprepared and unrepresented into proceedings of a potentially disciplinary or quasi-disciplinary nature.

Yves Gingras, professor and Canada Research Chair in History and Sociology of Science at Université du Québec à Montréal discusses performance indicators and research evaluation tools.