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BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | June 10 2021

‘Escalating anti-Asian racism is something that’s very real in Canada,’ said UBC’s president.

BY CARY WU ET AL | April 16 2021

Anti-Asian racism affects us as Asian Canadians in our daily lives and in our careers.

BY ANANYA BANERJEE | April 01 2021

Including social justice in public health curriculum will equip students with an equity lens.

BY LEAH HAMILTON, IRENE SHANKAR & MOHAMMED EL HAZZOURI | March 26 2021

Marketing/communications offices need to ensure the voices of BIPOC faculty and students are represented and amplified, not tokenized or misrepresented as they are now.

BY MALINDA SMITH | February 25 2021

How the pandemic has highlighted the disparities and knowledge gaps in our institutions and society.

BY C. DARIUS STONEBANKS | February 19 2021

To work in a setting in which all of the power, opportunities, leadership and administration is primarily white is a powerful reality check.

BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | January 15 2021

Tackling racism isn’t a ‘flash-in-the-pan kind of thing,’ says the head of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing.

BY MIRJAM FINES-NEUSCHILD & BIBIANA PULIDO | January 12 2021

The decisions that professors make around evaluation and review – as well as in teaching and scholarly inquiry – are a product of their own interpretation of “excellence.”

BY UA/AU | December 31 2020

As an eventful 2020 comes to an end, here are the stories and issues that shaped the year in Canadian higher education. Stories that made 2020 Flight 752: a terrible start to the year While the pandemic has been uppermost in most people’s minds in 2020, the new year began with another unimaginable tragedy: the death of all 176 passengers and […]

BY UA/AU | December 24 2020

It’s been quite the year. We’ve read and reported, edited and produced, hundreds of stories, many of them related to the COVID-19 pandemic. While we get ready to say goodbye to a memorable 2020, here are the stories that we’ll remember in 2021. The engineering gender gap: it’s more than a numbers game It’s been […]

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.

BY WENDY GLAUSER | November 18 2020

Intimate partner violence, families with young children, people with disabilities and Indigenous mental health are among the many areas under investigation.

BY KARINE COEN-SANCHEZ | November 10 2020

Only through our collective efforts to recruit and retain Black and racialized faculty members can we fully ensure the success of Black and racialized students in higher education.

BY CATHERINE LAROCHELLE ET AL | October 21 2020

The global COVID-19 crisis offers universities the ideal pretext to change their practices and rethink their definition of academic work and its value.

BY NANDINI MAHARAJ | September 24 2020

What are you doing to connect with people of colour? Do you know your BIPOC colleagues and students? Do you know their hopes and aspirations?

BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | September 16 2020

On September 9 and 10, scholars across Canada paused academic and administrative work to participate in a strike against anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism in policing.

BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | September 02 2020

With the unveiling of its website on September 4, the National Black Graduate Network officially starts its work to connect and support Black graduate students across Canada.

BY SHEILA COTE-MEEK | August 27 2020

In order to disrupt ongoing gendered discrimination, it is critical that we expose it. This is not always easy.

BY BARBARA CROW & ALICE PITT | August 18 2020

Despite all of the affirmative action policies and unconscious bias training at universities, something is still amiss.

BY MELISSA FUNDIRA | August 12 2020

Rates of domestic violence and violence against women have been on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, and researchers are moving quickly to support survivors stuck at home.

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