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University of British Columbia, Okanagan
UBC Open Inquiry is a faculty-led organization committed to promoting academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, institutional neutrality, and constructive disagreement in both research and teaching.
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UBC Open Inquiry is committed to the creation and dissemination of knowledge through teaching and research and is guided by the principle of academic freedom, which is defined in the UBC Faculty Association Collective Agreement as the fundamental principle and right:
“to pursue what seems to them as fruitful avenues of inquiry, to teach and to learn unhindered by external or non-academic constraints, to engage in full and unrestricted consideration of any opinion.”
It continues, stressing that these are not only rights that mandate UBC allow for academic freedom, but are positive obligations, that is to say that they are also our duties, as:
“All members of the University must recognize this fundamental principle and must share responsibility for supporting, safeguarding and preserving this central freedom. Behaviour that obstructs free and full discussion, not only of ideas that are safe and accepted, but of those which may be unpopular or even abhorrent, vitally threatens the integrity of the University’s forum. Such behaviour cannot be tolerated.”
UBC Okanagan is also governed by British Columbia’s University Act, which requires taxpayer-funded universities to be “non-sectarian and non-political in principle” (s.66(1)). UBC Open Inquiry is a faculty-led organization dedicated to upholding each and all of these ideals.
The members of UBC Open Inquiry hold diverse perspectives as scholars, and further diverse perspectives with regards to political, economic, and social questions. Nevertheless, we are united by our commitment to the following four principles:
Do you believe in open inquiry? A group of courageous professors and students have come together on the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus because they believe in open inquiry, too. Will you help them? Your donation will help the HxA Campus Community at University of British Columbia, Okanagan put on events that support the cause of open inquiry. As a supporter, you will receive invitations to HxA campus events, and updates on HxA activities on your campus and on other campuses all around the country.
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