SAFS Cases
SAFS CASES
SAFS letters to UW and WLU
2023
2022
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UW Search for CRC in Faculty of Environment Restricted on Non-Academic GroundsUW Search for CRC in Faculty of Environment Restricted on Non-Academic Grounds
Apr 2022. UW call is “open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit.”
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Non-academic Critieria Guides Faculty Hiring at WLUNon-academic Critieria Guides Faculty Hiring at WLU
Feb 2022. WLU creates 12 faculty positions for Black and indigenous applicants only. It argues that hiring indigenous faculty will demonstrate action towards reconciliation.
In its letter, SAFS argues the reconciliation is not an academic goal and that "good intentions alone are never enough to exonerate such discreditable practices."
2021
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UW Restricts Faculty Search on Non-Academic GroundsUW Restricts Faculty Search on Non-Academic Grounds
Nov 2021. UW Computer Science announces two faculty positions eligible for a prestigious Canada Research Chair. The jobs are open only to individuals who "self-identify as women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit.”
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Restricted Hiring in WLU Psychology Dept. Nov 2021. Psychology Dept. announces faculty opening and states “we are specifically looking [for] scholars who identify as either Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Colour.” SAFS argues that WLU will disadvantage "promising scholars for no reason related to their academic accomplishments, abilities or promise."Restricted Hiring in WLU Psychology Dept.
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Discriminatory Hiring at UW Aug 2021. SAFS condemns UW for violating the merit principle after it announces plans to hire 10 Indigenous and 10 Black faculty members. In their letter, SAFS argues that "Excluding meritorious candidates cannot be a sound way to build excellent programs".Discriminatory Hiring at UW
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Non-Merit Based Hiring at WLU May 2021. Wilfrid Laurier University reserves academic appointments for scholars based on non-academic criteria: race and indigenous status. In their letter, SAFS argues that "Declining to consider on their academic merits all interested and qualified scholars cannot be a sound way to build an excellent faculty."Non-Merit Based Hiring at WLU
2020
2017
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WLU President Commended for Exonerating Lindsay Shepherd Dec 2017. WLU President MacLatchy publicly announces that "There was no wrongdoing on the part of Ms. Shepherd in showing the clip from TVO in her tutorial." In its letter, SAFS commends the President and hopes that the public declaration of Shepherd's innocence will "greatly improve the climate for teaching and learning."WLU President Commended for Exonerating Lindsay Shepherd
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Prof Challenged for Disciplining TA for WrongThink Nov 2017. Christie Blatchford, in her National Post article of Nov 10, 2017, describes how TA, Lindsay Shepherd, was subjected to 40 minute-long struggle session by her Prof, Nathan Rambukkana, for the sin of showing a TVO clip in her tutorial. SAFS wrote to Prof. Rabukkana, expressing its concern that the meeting was initimidating and designed to slience and indoctrinate.Prof Challenged for Disciplining TA for WrongThink
