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The Skills Agenda
BY LOLEEN BERDAHL | March 10 2023

Knowledge workers will require the ability to work in diverse teams and contexts.

diversity. Their co-workers, clients, patients, customers, students, employees, and stakeholders include people with different racial, gender, linguistic, and cultural identities than their own. Their work and lives involve engaging with people with differing levels of ability and disability, with p...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/the-skills-agenda/why-universities-need-to-include-intercultural-skill-development-in-curricula/
Responsibilities May Include
BY CATHERINE E. HUNDLEBY & STEPHANIE DUPLEY | November 19 2021

A faculty member collaborated with campus career services to deliver an experiential learning option to PhD students with diverse backgrounds.

No shared background or shared career path can be expected of students in the University of Windsor’s interdisciplinary Continue reading. It builds on decades of scholarship (which made Windsor the centre for philosoph...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/incorporating-experiential-learning-in-a-phd-program/
Pages
BY GILLES DUSSAULT | April 09 1963
par Gilles Dussault Publié en avril 1963, vol. 4, no. 4 Il serait relativement assez facile de ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/contenu-archive-luniversite-devant-la-commission-parent/
Features
BY PIERRE ZUNDEL + PATRICK DEANE | December 06 2010

Pour un vrai changement, il faut repenser radicalement le processus d’enseignement et d’apprentissage.

Au printemps prochain, des recteurs participeront à un atelier sur l’enseignement au premier cycle dans les universités canadiennes, organisé par l’Association des universités et collèges du Canada (AUCC)*. Fort attendu et plus que le bienvenu, cet atelier pourrait être transformateur. Sa ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/il-est-temps-de-transformer-lenseignement-au-premier-cycle/
In my opinion
BY MICHEL BOUCHARD, SÉBASTIEN MALETTE, GUILLAUME MARCOTTE & SIOMONN PULLA | May 04 2020

Un groupe de chercheurs conteste la teneur d’un récent article consacré aux notions d’« auto-autochtonisation » et de « déplacement identitaire ».

Intitulé « Des chercheurs exposent le phénomène grandissant d’auto-autochtonisation » (Affaires universitaires, 1er avril 2020), l’article définit l’auto-autochtonisation comme « la soudaine revendication d’une identité autochtone en invoquant des liens ténus...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/une-vision-nuancee-et-plus-large-de-la-diversite-metisse-simpose/
Career Advice
BY JOSEPH FRUSCIONE | February 11 2019

Pour accéder au marché du travail avec succès, il faut d’abord un conseiller compréhensif, encourageant et ouvert aux diverses définitions du succès professionnel.

Si vous poursuivez une carrière hors du milieu universitaire, demandez-vous : Quelles ressources m’auraient aidé à faire la transition, à mettre mes compétences en valeur et m’auraient permis de voir la « réussite » autrement? À la fin des années 1990 et au début des années 2000...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/conseils-carriere-article/redefinir-le-succes-apres-le-doctorat/
Features
BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | December 07 2016
diversity. And, speaking of diversity, the pages of University Affairs 50 years ago were populated almost exclusively by men. Not only were “he” and “him” the pronouns of choice, we could not find a single article written by a woman. Funding, not surprisingly, was an issue in the mid-1960...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/look-back-universities-time-canadas-centennial-pages-university-affairs/
Features
BY JOEL BELLIVEAU | May 09 2022

Learning to know oneself and the world.

diversity">French-language universities in minority settings: a litmus test for Canadian diversity
These colleges were the work of religious congregations, and, like their Quebec counterparts, most were affiliated with Université Laval, the dean of universities in francophone Ameri...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/postsecondary-teaching-cultural-reproduction-and-universality-in-the-canadian-francophonie/
Features
BY DANIEL HALTON | December 06 2023

Universities Canada’s new chair of the board of directors Deep Saini on the need to rebuild trust and other challenges facing the postsecondary education sector.

diversity as just a nice thing to do; I see it as an operational necessity and a competitive advantage. I am a stickler for excellence, but I also believe very strongly that nobody should be deprived of the opportunity to excel because of their background or circumstance. We are a very diverse count...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/positioning-canadas-universities-for-the-future/
Features
BY SHARON ASCHAIEK WITH FILES FROM MOHAMED BERRADA | February 28 2024

How growing recognition of the diverse needs of students on the autism spectrum is fueling a culture change on campus.

diversity-support/NICE-week">Neurodiversity Immersive Campus Experience – two days of on-campus programming and workshops that introduce first-year neurodiverse learners to life at the university as well as some helpful campus services, while also connecting them with their neurodivergent peer...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/bridging-gaps-and-building-opportunities/
News
BY BRIAN OWENS | August 28 2017

Researchers, university administrators, students and others across Canada rally in an unprecedented effort to ensure the government doesn’t ignore the report’s recommendations.

diversity – and not just within academia, as students are increasingly moving into other “satellite” professions after their graduate work. “Students are an extremely diverse group,” said Vanessa Sung, the group’s other co-president. “By investing in students, it helps promote diversit...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/federal-government-getting-pressed-many-sides-adopt-naylor-report/
News
BY ANQI SHEN | May 29 2018

“Tackling these questions in an open, transparent and scholarly way is one of the things we’re doing to make ourselves more welcoming as a community to people of diverse racial backgrounds,” said King’s president.

diversity and inclusion on their campuses, noted Dr. Lahey. “We do not have enough diversity in this university community – that’s been given to me as a mandate by our board of governors – and tackling these questions in an open, transparent and scholarly way is one of the things we’re doi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/kings-in-halifax-launches-scholarly-inquiry-into-its-possible-ties-to-slavery/
News
BY ANQI SHEN | February 20 2019

Consultations will continue in February and March with underrepresented groups and academic institutions on the draft charter aimed at promoting equity, diversity and inclusion.

diversity that is Canada’s greatest strength,” University of Ottawa biology professor Jeremy Kerr tweeted. “Time to embrace diversity on campuses, in labs, in all our work, at every career stage.” Malinda Smith, a political science professor at the University of Alberta who studies equity...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canadian-government-unveils-draft-athena-swan-charter/
News
BY UA/AU | June 30 2020
diversity office also created Continue reading to share the flag raising beyond campus: “These flags are a reminder to work towards reducing barriers to full participation and inclusion across the university.” The office has prepared ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/covid-19-updates-for-june-2020/
News
BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | July 14 2020

As part of the international Strike for Black Lives and #ShutDownSTEM, Canadian researchers stopped work as usual on June 10 to dedicate the day to confronting anti-Black racism.

diversity and inclusion talks or training about implicit bias. “We are calling for every member of the community to commit to taking actions that will change the material circumstances of how Black lives are lived,” the call to action reads. And many members of the academic community in Canada d...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/how-a-group-of-physicists-started-a-protest-movement-in-solidarity-with-black-lives-matter/
News
BY MAXIME BILODEAU | April 21 2021

By proposing an update to traditional criteria for evaluating applications, the declaration asks the research community to rethink its approach.

diversity, inclusion and equity in science. As the declaration requires an overhaul of conventional criteria for evaluating applications to various research bodies, it would mitigate the biases that traditionally favour particular groups of researchers. It would also enhance the overall quality o...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/the-san-francisco-declaration-on-research-assessment-is-gaining-ground-in-canada/
News
BY IAN MUNROE | June 29 2021

If participating postsecondary institutions don’t meet their targets by the end of 2029, the number of research chairs they receive will be cut.

diversity, but to the environments that we're bringing faculty into,” Dr. Finlay says. “The CRC program deals with representational diversity but it's not dealing with the other side of it, which is the inclusive environment.” For her part, Dr. Mulay, sees the human rights settlement that s...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/latest-settlement-in-crc-equity-issue-sets-hard-deadline-for-targets/
News
BY SHARON ASCHAIEK | July 24 2023

One Child Every Child brings together researchers from diverse disciplines, organizations and countries to examine the biological and social determinants of health affecting the well-being of children.

diversity and inclusion action plan One Child Every Child has a robust equity, diversity and inclusion action plan in place to advance health equity amongst Indigenous, Black and other marginalized children and youth who tend to experience disproportionally poorer health outcomes as a result o...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/new-research-initiative-to-advance-child-health-knowledge-in-canada/
Media Scan
BY ANQI SHEN | May 05 2017
diversity-issue-addressed-at-universities/article34905004/?page=all">Ottawa to pull research chair funding unless diversity issue addressed at universities The federal granting councils that award the prestigious Canada Research Chairs say universities must offer up more diverse candid...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-may-5-2017/
Media Scan
BY ANQI SHEN | May 09 2017
diversity-of-research-chair-candidates/article34928020/">Universities say they accept new rules to boost diversity of research chair candidates Universities say they welcome the challenge from Ottawa to improve diversity among the ranks of the Canada Research Chairs, under threat of fu...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-may-9-2017/
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