Dean Art

As I have gotten to know the institutional side of the present dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa, I have developed the opinion that the artist depiction featured below is not far from the truth.

We cannot know how the institution will react to the use of academic freedom until someone uses academic freedom. Only then do we see what deans stand for and the true meaning of our eloquent institutional statements of principle.

In light of the Rancourt case, the University of Ottawa should consider being as straightforward as is this stencil art in its communications – in the interest of transparency and responsibility to the public.