Canadian University Apparently Tries to Oust Professor Over Grading Policy

Canada's main faculty association has set up an independent committee to investigate a series of clashes between the University of Ottawa and a senior tenured professor who was suspended last month and barred from the campus, apparently because of a grading dispute in which he gave all students in a class an A+ last spring after being refused permission to make the course pass/fail.

The professor, Denis Rancourt, is a noted physicist who has worked at the university for 22

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