Douglas Todd: Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein put UBC at centre of debate over academic activism Against opinion polls showing three in four Canadians believe political ideology should be kept out of universities, five years ago UBC hired left-wing climate activists Lewis and Klein as professors.
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Douglas Todd: Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein put UBC at centre of debate over academic activism
Against opinion polls showing three in four Canadians believe political ideology should be kept out of universities, five years ago UBC hired left-wing climate activists Lewis and Klein as professors.
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When the University of B.C. hired left-wing activists Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein as faculty, Canada’s second-largest post-secondary institution took a firm position on a polarizing discussion over whether academics should openly advocate political causes.
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