Collective Agreement Articles – Institutional Impartiality Policy Complaint
Article 4: Academic Freedom
4.1 The common good of society depends upon the search for truth and its free exposition. Universities with academic freedom are essential to these purposes both in teaching and scholarship/research. Employees are entitled, therefore, to:
(a) freedom in carrying out research and in publishing the results thereof,
(b) freedom in carrying out teaching and in discussing their subject and,
(c) freedom from institutional censorship.
Academic freedom carries with it the duty to use that freedom in a manner consistent with the scholarly obligation to base research and teaching on an honest search for truth.
6.3 Continuation of Past Practices
(a) Past practice may be altered, but only by written agreement of the parties.
(b) Where an employee or the Association seeks to rely on a past practice the onus shall be on the employee or the Association to show that the practice cited was contained in a document of the Senate, Board or management of Carleton University, or was otherwise sufficiently widely promulgated (in public, or in private communication), and practised, so as to make it reasonable to consider it a practice at this University.
(c) The Employer acknowledges a continuing responsibility to maintain a climate in which the academic functions of employees may be effectively carried out, and undertakes, therefore, to continue to provide a level of facilities and support services consistent with this responsibility.
(d) Consistent with the Employer’s acknowledged responsibility as set out in Article 6.3(c) above, the following general support service shall be provided though it is understood that a change in technology might affect the way in which the service is provided:
(i) Administrative support staff and related services
(ii) Telephone service and voice mail
(iii) Appropriate office space so as to protect the health, safety and security of employees as they carry out their duties on University premises. The Employer agrees to adhere to health and safety standards as embodied in current government legislation
(iv) Supplies and equipment
(v) Computing services and computing support services, including campus-based internet access
(vi) Instructional aids
(vii) Photocopying and printing
(viii) Teaching and research assistance
Where users sub-committees exist in relation to these services, they shall continue to perform their advisory functions during the term of this Collective Agreement.
(e) Consistent with the Employer’s acknowledged responsibility as set out in 6.3(c) above, the Employer shall make a reasonable effort to provide each CUASA employee with access to software and printing resources appropriate for teaching, service and administrative responsibilities. Upon hiring, each CUASA employee shall be reimbursed up to $2,000 for the purchase of either a laptop or desktop computer of their choice upon provision of a receipt. Once every five (5) years, following the last purchase of a computer system pursuant to this paragraph, each CUASA employee shall be eligible to be reimbursed up to $2,000 for the cost of acquiring or updating either a laptop or desktop computer.
Article 10: Tenure and Promotion
10.1 Tenure and Promotion for Faculty Employees
(d) Tenure
(i) Tenure and academic freedom are related to each other. Academic freedom is a right of all faculty members. The right to freedom is, generally, the right not to be interfered with. A faculty member’s right to academic freedom is their right not to be interfered with in the discharge of their academic role. That role includes the acquisition of knowledge and skills and the guidance of others in the acquisition of these. The right to academic freedom includes, accordingly, the right of a faculty member to criticize the university in any respect in which it is an environment unfavourable to these ends in order to advocate changes which will make it a more favourable one, and in order to oppose changes which will make it a less favourable one. It also includes the right of a faculty member to investigate, to teach and to publish as well as to criticize any aspect of learning or society insofar as doing so is compatible with their academic obligation to discharge the academic role in a responsible way. The principle of appointments with tenure is an important safeguard of the right to academic freedom, thus understood.
