B.C. professor says one-year suspension over Facebook post 'violates his academic freedom'

The post tagged the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators and several members of Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association in a comment. He predicted that TRUFA members would “go running” to Larry Phillips, the executive director of human resources at TRU, to defend them.Article content continued

Phillips brought him into a human resources meeting, and he was told there was a harassment complaint against him. Pyne said the two complainants told TRU that being tagged in the post led to them losing sleep, and one of them claimed she needed time off work to recover.Pyne said in an interview that he appreciates the support from the SAFS.Mercer said in the letter that Pyne’s right to criticize TRU and TRUFA is protected by academic freedom guaranteed to all professors by Article 9.

Brett Fairbairn, the president of TRU, said in a letter to the SAFS that Pyne’s suspension is not about his academic freedom, but other issues arising in the workplace. “Privacy laws prevent organizations from releasing information about a specific individual,” said Fairbairn in a letter. “As a result, we will not be releasing information specifically related to Dr. Pyne. Matters involving Dr. Pyne do not pertain to exercise of academic freedom.”

Pyne said TRUFA’s chief stewards will be filing a grievance against TRU for academic freedom violations. The TRUFA is demanding the suspension be rescinded and he be reinstated with full retroactive salary and benefits.

.thompsonriversu should have all of its public funding pulled and it's charter revoked. The admin is corrupt and represents everything antithetical to fundamentals of learning .. the free expression of ideas and speech. bcpoli cdnpoli bced

I hope he takes this to court, and hits them hard.

BWA HA HA HA HA HA! The faculty at Thompson University are fragile idiots who can't handle any criticism and only just completely proved that professor's point by suspending him. I shall point and laugh at them now.

Universities are cesspools of hate and intolerance.

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