The Rock administration of the University of Ottawa has collaborated with Carleton University in deposing the endowed Joint Chair in Women's Studies Dr. Agnes Whitfield after only one year of the position.
Dr. Whitfield had been critical of both administrations concerning how the chair was being badly administered and had asked to see the financial record of the chairship.
U of O's VP-Academic Francois Houle (of Ann Coulter fame) stated to the student newspaper (Fulcrum, September 23, 2010, issue) "The problem is that the endowment is not rich enough and the rate of interest now is so low that it cannot [properly] finance the chair."
Whose interest?
So these universities turf inconveniently outspoken professors when interest rates on endowments go down while spending hundreds of thousands collecting information to have activist students jailed and to block access to information requests using teams of corporate lawyers...
Nice.
Why not free up one campus police agent on each campus and keep the Chair in women's studies? Is that a fair question?
(U of O campus police showcasing their skills.)
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... or else why not continue funding the chair at the current rate until the entire amount of the original endowment capital has been spent.
Otherwise, it is quite clear that the motive is not financial.
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