Equity
‘Escalating anti-Asian racism is something that’s very real in Canada,’ said UBC’s president.
Anti-Asian racism affects us as Asian Canadians in our daily lives and in our careers.
Including social justice in public health curriculum will equip students with an equity lens.
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.
How the pandemic has highlighted the disparities and knowledge gaps in our institutions and society.
To work in a setting in which all of the power, opportunities, leadership and administration is primarily white is a powerful reality check.
Tackling racism isn’t a ‘flash-in-the-pan kind of thing,’ says the head of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing.
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.”
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 […]
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 […]
Diversity is easy to define and measure, and thus manage, but equity and inclusion are not and require much greater effort.
Intimate partner violence, families with young children, people with disabilities and Indigenous mental health are among the many areas under investigation.
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.
The global COVID-19 crisis offers universities the ideal pretext to change their practices and rethink their definition of academic work and its value.
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?
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.
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.
In order to disrupt ongoing gendered discrimination, it is critical that we expose it. This is not always easy.
Despite all of the affirmative action policies and unconscious bias training at universities, something is still amiss.
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.