Career Advice
BY JOY MIGHTY | March 10 2008
Nurturing an inclusive classroom is a matter of shaping content, altering conduct and widening context
diversity in several ways in our daily lives as we interact with individuals from very different backgrounds. We are increasingly aware of the myriad identities and experiences our students bring to the classroom. Differences in age, learning styles, gender, levels of preparedness, pre-existing skil...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/diversity-rules/
Features
BY DIANA DUONG | October 16 2019
The conversation about race in the profession is heating up. Here’s why.
diversity in staffing is the next frontier on campus. But it’s taken a while to even get to this point, she notes. After all, the history of student affairs is steeped in traditions made by and for white men. (It was only a century ago that women were widely accepted into spaces of higher learning...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/does-student-affairs-have-a-diversity-problem/
In my opinion
BY MELANIE JANZEN AND JEROME CRANSTON | June 27 2016
The push-back was strong when we sought to increase the diversity of teachers through a modified admissions policy in our education degree program.
diversity, the teaching profession is not.
To address this lack of diversity, we need to examine the admissions policies in Bachelor of Education programs. Deans, associate deans and directors in faculties and colleges of education must be willing to consider revising or rewriting these policies ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/challenges-implementing-diversity-admissions-policy/
In my opinion
BY SAMAN RAZAVI | December 04 2020
Diversity is easy to define and measure, and thus manage, but equity and inclusion are not and require much greater effort.
diversity and inclusion (EDI) principles. These challenges, sadly but not surprisingly, afflict academia and professional environments as well, which typically champion change for a better future.
It appears there is goodwill to unearth and address the root causes of inequality, as EDI has now be...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/celebrate-diversity-embrace-equity-and-cultivate-inclusion/
News
BY ANQI SHEN | October 26 2017
Universities Canada members voted to uphold seven “inclusive excellence” principles and to undertake an action plan from 2017 to 2022.
diversity-inclusion-adopting-new-principles/">advance diversity, equity and inclusion on their campuses, and committed to a five-year action plan to measure their progress and outcomes.
“It’s the coming together of a number of things that have led us on this path,” said Mike Mahon, the ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canadian-universities-commit-progress-equity-diversity-inclusion/
From the admin chair
BY SHEILA COTE-MEEK | June 24 2019
A new federal charter, with funds to match, will help institutions to identify systemic barriers.
diversity and inclusion (EDI) capacity-building fund. These grants are designed to help institutions to identify and eliminate, within the research enterprise, “systemic barriers that impede the career advancement, recruitment and retention of under-represented groups.” These groups include wome...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/from-the-admin-chair/exciting-times-for-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/
News
BY MOIRA MACDONALD | November 13 2019
The survey, which closes December 6, aims to address the lack of data on equity, diversity and inclusion in the postsecondary sector.
diversity and inclusion (EDI) at Canada’s colleges and universities so that policies for addressing EDI can be improved.
The survey stems from a federal government commitment in Budget 2018 to collect better data on postsecondary faculty and researchers in support of greater diversity among tho...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/statistics-canada-wants-you-for-a-new-survey-on-faculty-diversity/
In my opinion
BY BRIAN MCILROY | January 20 2016
My department has been successful at striving for equal overall gender representation, but we remain primarily Caucasian.
diversity effect.”
If we were genuinely concerned about socio-economic diversity, spousal appointments without an open competition would not be encouraged. Unfortunately, it seems highly utopian these days to expect universities to increase its diversity by attempting to give preference to work...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/faculty-diversity-a-quarter-century-hiring-report-card/
News
BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | July 07 2015
New digital planning tool will be made available to other universities.
diversity within their units. It plans to make the tool available to other universities soon.
The Diversity and Equity Assessment and Planning tool, or DEAP as it’s known, is a self-audit exercise that helps departments and other academic units understand the demographic profile of their studen...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/queens-tool-can-assess-diversity-equity-by-department/
In my opinion
BY MICHEL BOUCHARD, SÉBASTIEN MALETTE, GUILLAUME MARCOTTE & SIOMONN PULLA | May 04 2020
A group of scholars offer a rebuttal to a recent article exploring the notions of “self-Indigenization” and “race-shifting.”
diversity and the cultural renaissance underway in Canada. The work of Maximilian C. Forte (Who is an Indian? Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas, University of Toronto Press, 2013) shows that the resurgence of Indigenous identities is a phenomenon that can be obser...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/we-need-a-wider-more-nuanced-view-of-metis-diversity/