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The professor's use of the word and the ensuing outrage was first reported by Charley Dutil and Paige Holland in the university's anglophone student news outlet, Fulcrum. [1] The university suspended the teacher after an offended student filed a complaint. The debate about whether the suspension was justified and about academic freedom then ...
In October 2020, a part-time University of Ottawa professor, Verushka Lieutenant-Duval, was suspended after she used the word nigger in one of her lectures. A student who attended this lecture filed a complaint to the University of Ottawa's president, Jacques Frémont, and demanded an immediate assessment of the situation.
Denis Rancourt is a former professor of physics at the University of Ottawa.Rancourt is widely known for his confrontations with his former employer, the University of Ottawa, over issues involving his grade inflation and "academic squatting", the act of arbitrarily changing the topic of a course without departmental permission.
On February 11, 2019, the University of Ottawa announced that the University of Ottawa Students' Union had won the referendum to become the official undergraduate student union. [1] The SFUO offices closed on April 10, 2019. An equitable court receiver was appointed to officially dissolve the federation. [2]
The University of Ottawa (French: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.The main campus is located on 42.5 hectares (105 acres) directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa across the Rideau Canal in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood.
The Ottawa Gee-Gees (French: Gee-Gees d'Ottawa) are the athletic teams that represent the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario. The Gee-Gees won the national football championship, the Vanier Cup , in 1975 and 2000, while also appearing in the game in the 1970, 1980, and 1997 seasons. [ 2 ]
Tuition at the University of Ottawa's Law School varies according to the program being studied. Students enrolled in the civil law program pay the lowest fees, with the tuition rates 2012–2013 set at $8,833.46; this stands in contrast to the common law program, where annual tuition rates for 2014–2015 are $16,772.40.
The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) (French: Fédération étudiante de l'Université d'Ottawa, FÉUO) was the student organization representing undergraduate students at the University of Ottawa. It was succeeded by the University of Ottawa Students' Union in 2019.