“Perhaps the history is best read as a morality play, familiar enough in its classical themes but novel and even frightening in its details… Little is more appalling in the narrative than how easily the acquiescent closed their eyes, pretending Mandel’s shattered career was an everyday accident of academic life, and treated a flat contradiction of academic law as contributing to integrity and stability for the long run.”
--From the Introduction by J.C. Weldon, Dow Professor of Economics, McGill University

Yet another one of academe's sordid little stories.--Globe and Mail

Allen Fenichel, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, has been associate professor of economics at McGill University since 1964. He is a founding member and past president of the McGill Faculty Union. David Mandel has a doctorate from Columbia University and is currently substitute professor in political science at the Universite du Quebec.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Chronology
Cast of Characters

Introduction by Professor J.C. Weldon

1. The Decision-Making Process
The Decision: No Discussion, No Explanation, No Appeal
The Academic Setting: Associations, Unions, Collegia

2. Obtaining a Hearing

3. The Hearings
Setting the Stage
The University Resists
Testimony

4. The Reports
Canadianization
Procedural Defects
Political Bias
Remedy

5. Implementing the Gibson Report: Three Strikes and You’re Out
The First Blow
The Second Blow
The Third Blow
Not With a Bang, But With a Whimper

Postscript

Conclusion: Academic Freedom and Accountability

Appendix I: Gibson Committee Proposals Concerning Fair Appointment Practices in Canadian Universities
Appendix II: Canadian Association of University Teachers’ Guidelines on Canadianization and the University.