With the start of another semester of remote teaching, the CMCFA would like to remind faculty of our position on academic freedom as it relates to electric course management systems (such as but not limited to Moodle). It is the CMCFA’s position that all of a UT’s course materials, regardless of their format or their stage of revision (including but not limited to drafts or working copies, archived copies, final or “live” versions of courses), belong to the UT and are protected by academic freedom. In the same way that a Dean, Head or Chair is not permitted to enter professors’ offices and inspect the contents of their filing cabinets, academic freedom protects professors’ records from involuntary inspection, collection or approval by the administration, whether they are hard copy records or records developed for electronic course management systems.

Please contact any member of the CMCFA Grievance Committee if you have any questions or concerns: https://cmcfa-apcmc.ca/en/grieve.html.

Sincerely,

Helen Luu

CMCFA President