{"id":5949,"date":"2009-04-06T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T23:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2009-04-06T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T23:31:27","slug":"union-president-says-professor%e2%80%99s-dismissal-first-in-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/union-president-says-professor%e2%80%99s-dismissal-first-in-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Union president says professor\u2019s dismissal first in 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary Herald: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/Technology\/Union+president+says+professor+dismissal+first+years\/1467554\/story.html\">Union president says professor\u2019s dismissal first in 25 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Denis Rancourt is the first tenured professor fired by the University of Ottawa in at least 25 years, according to the president of the university\u2019s professors\u2019 union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my recollection, it generally doesn\u2019t happen at the university,\u201d said Atef Fatim, president of the Association of Professors at the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Rancourt, a physics professor and self-described anarchist, was suspended by the university in December after attracting national media attention for his unorthodox teaching methods, which included giving an A-plus to every student in an upper-year physics class. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary Herald: Union president says professor\u2019s dismissal first in 25 years OTTAWA \u2014 Denis Rancourt is the first tenured professor fired by the University of Ottawa in at least 25 years, according to the president of the university\u2019s professors\u2019 union. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/union-president-says-professor%e2%80%99s-dismissal-first-in-25-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[1288922,1288962,2401,3276],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","tag-faculty","tag-tenure-promotion","tag-termination","tag-university-of-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}