About the Harry Crowe Foundation
In November of 2002, the governing Council of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) established a new foundation to carry out education and research on the role of post-secondary teaching and research in contemporary society. Named the Harry Crowe Foundation, after the person whose academic freedom case gave rise to the modern day CAUT, the foundation will sponsor research and conduct conferences on issues in post-secondary education, such as freedom of academic expression, social factors affecting research priorities, institutional autonomy and governance, and scholarly communication in a digital age.
- Letter from the President, Howard Pawley
- Report on the Crowe Case
In 1959, The C.A.U.T Bulletin published the "Report of the Investigation by the Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers into the Dismissal of Professor H.S. Crowe by United College, Winnipeg, Manitoba." This event established the precedent for CAUT's investigations into violations of academic freedom around the country. The editorial preface to the report noted the "twofold" purpose behind the enquiry: "The first was to lend the weight of the Association to Professor Crowe in his difficult position if it were found--as it was found--that he had been unjustly dismissed. The second and no less important purpose was, by defining the issues and stating certain principles of right academic behaviour, to strengthen the concept of academic freedom throughout Canada. Injustice to one professor is injustice to all, and a proper defence in one instance increases the security of all. It is to be hoped that, whatever the outcome of this unhappy incident, the concepts of academic freedom and tenure, and of the teacher's essential role in the community, will be more fully understood within and without the profession." - Inventory of the Harry S. Crowe fonds, York University Archives and Special Collections
- Statement of the American Association of University Professors on Procedural Standards in Faculty Dismissal Proceedings
1958 was a critical year for the development of faculty rights and academic standards on both sides of the border. In the same year that the CAUT was undertaking its first investigation, its sister organization in the United States passed one of its most important statements on the procedural standards that ought to pertain in the dismissal of tenured faculty members.