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CHEERS AND JEERS: Jeers to UPEI for not enacting new harassment policies

Jeers to UPEI for leaving unimplemented its updated harassment and discrimination policy and its sexual violence policy governing faculty. The university and faculty agree on the terms of the policies, just not how to best adopt them into the collective agreement. Meanwhile, any complaints concerning faculty as either perpetrator, victim or both, that these policies would address are still regulated under an older and problematic fair treatment policy — the same set of rules that allowed “a culture of fear and reprisal” as expressed in the 2023 Rubin Thomlinson report. It is past time to adopt the updated guidelines.

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