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The association representing Canadian university faculty has launched an investigation to determine whether Thompson Rivers University has violated the academic freedom of economics professor Derek Pyne.

He had gained international attention for his peer-reviewed research into the way faculty in his own department were advancing their careers by publishing in deceptive academic journals, also known as “predatory” publications.

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The investigating committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers will be chaired by Mark Mac Lean, a University of B.C. mathematics professor and former president of the UBC faculty association. Carla Graebner, aSimon Fraser University data librarian, will also serve on the committee.

“Professor Pyne published an article exploring the use of so-called ‘predatory publishers’ by faculty members and administrators in the school of business and economics at Thompson Rivers. He says he was subsequently targeted by the administration in violation of his academic freedom,” said an Association statement.