Toronto Star: Outspoken academic wins fight with York
Round One goes to the teacher in the ongoing dispute between York University and its rabble-rousing professor David Noble.
A labour arbitrator has ruled York violated Noble’s academic freedom by issuing a 2004 press release criticizing a controversial pamphlet he penned and ordered the university to pay Noble $2,500 in damages. It must also withdraw the press release from its website.
While Noble failed to win an apology from York for the press release and was awarded a mere sliver of the $10 million in damages he was seeking, the history professor calls the ruling “a major victory for academic freedom.”
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