Hurt feelings, harassment... the modern prof just can't take a joke

Don’t miss reading the hard-hitting piece on the other side of the paywall written by distinguished scholar Barry Cooper about the continuing saga of Frances Widdowson’s unjust dismissal as a tenured professor at Calgary’s Mount Royal University.

Professor Cooper is a Canadian political scientist at the University of Calgary. The winner of a Killam Research Fellowship, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1991, Cooper wrote Action into Nature: An Essay on the Meaning of Technology and he co-authored Deconfederation: Canada without Quebec, in which he argued that Canada would benefit from Quebec separation. He is also the author of the 1999 publication Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science.

He is also a fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies and a senior research fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. As a regular columnist for the Calgary Herald, Cooper is a frequent commentator on Canadian political issues.