U of O Watch mission, in the words of Foucault...

"One knows … that the university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class. … It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them." -- Foucault, debating Chomsky, 1971.

U of O Watch mission, in the words of Socrates...

"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all." -- Socrates

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

This is what targeting a dissident tenured professor looks like at "Canada's university"

Renowned workplace mobbing expert professor Kenneth Westhues concluded in a 2009 written report that the dismissal of full and tenured professor Denis Rancourt was an "administrative mobbing": LINK TO REPORT.

This week Rancourt posted a chronological list (2005-2009) of the attacks on his academic freedom that culminated in the University of Ottawa's dismissal of him, entitled "This is what targeting a dissident tenured professor looks like in Canada":


As pointed out by Westhues, Rancourt has generally meticulously documented and made public the available facts that support his statements (HERE).

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