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/
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 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 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/