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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 29, 2015, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE B2 B 2 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 Looking for extra cash to For more information contact Tracy at the Winnipeg Free Press Phone: ( 204) 697- 7215 or email: tracy. jentzsch@ freepress. mb. ca Become a part- time carrier for the Winnipeg Free Press! �� Earn $ 650 to $ 750 per month �� Average Route: Monday through Saturday, 3: 30 A. M. to 6: 00 A. M. ( 2.5 - 3 hours daily) �� Door- to- door delivery �� Gas allowance per kilometers used ( over and above your earnings!) �� Easy Money �� Optional Carrier Insurance �� Great way to get in shape �� Perfect job for students �� Must have a vehicle & valid Class 5 full Drivers License in order to apply T HE national professors' union has denounced the University of Manitoba economics department for allegedly violating academic freedom and for a climate that has become " corrosive and dysfunctional to the point of crisis." The Canadian Association of University Teachers released its investigatory- committee report Wednesday into allegations of efforts in the department to reduce or eliminate approaches and views outside of mainstream economics. CAUT said the economics department traditionally had a reputation of making room for both mainstream and heterodox views in hiring and in its curriculum - in lay language, heterodox professors think outside the box. The report recommended a search be held for a new head of the department, that an external review of the graduate and undergraduate programs in economics be conducted and that the U of M make a commitment to ensuring both heterodox and mainstream traditions remain viable in economics. The U of M said CAUT sent its report to the media Wednesday but not to the university administration. " There has not been an opportunity to review it. The university continues to believe that CAUT's investigative process was inherently flawed," said John Danakas, the U of M's marketing and communications executive director. CAUT claimed university president David Barnard urged economics faculty members not to meet with investigators and some professors subsequently refused to talk to them. Last year, Barnard told CAUT to butt out of campus matters in which the union had no authority to intervene and said the university would resolve its problems internally. Barnard said last year in a letter CAUT's investigations are inherently flawed because they involve confidential information the union has not shared with the university, cannot compel anyone to be interviewed, and would involve divulging information protected by privacy legislation. " A process limited in these ways cannot have validity," Barnard said in a letter CAUT released. " The principles of institutional autonomy, collegial governance and academic freedom are fundamental to the academic community, and I intend to continue to defend them," Barnard said a year ago. " I find the actions announced by CAUT to be intrusive and at odds with these principles." CAUT said in releasing its report Wednesday, " A change of direction or emphasis within an academic unit does not intrinsically implicate academic freedom. However, it is our conclusion that decisions and actions within the department cumulatively constituted violations of academic freedom by producing an environment within which the scholarship of heterodox colleagues was undermined." The investigating committee found evidence heterodox faculty and graduate students were poorly treated and undermined and attempts were made to reassign courses to orthodox proponents. " It was a violation of academic freedom when orthodox members of the department behaved in ways that discriminated against doctoral students being supervised by heterodox economists," the investigators said. " The atmosphere and relations within the department of economics remain divided and embittered," the report said. " The status quo cannot be maintained." Members of the investigatory committee included Queen's University law Prof. Allan Manson, University of Calgary English Prof. Pamela McCallum and management Prof. Larry Haiven of the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University. Copies of the full report are available at caut. ca. nick. martin@ freepress. mb. ca U of M's faculty of economics ripped Academic freedom flouted: profs' union By Nick Martin ' There has not been an opportunity to review it. The university continues to believe that CAUT's investigative process was inherently flawed' - John Danakas, U of M's marketing and communications executive director B_ 02_ Jan- 29- 15_ FP_ 01. indd B2 1/ 28/ 15 8: 13: 47 PM ;