Equity
Life experience is a transferrable skill.
A new report looks at how accessibility and accommodations are meeting the needs of disabled students across Canada.
Why do hiring committees appear to favour graduates from big-league universities?
Fourteen students were admitted to the medical school through the Black Student Application Program this year.
Contrary to current thinking in Canadian circles, David Kent says it is absolutely essential to tie the program to funding.
The federal government wants to bring a pilot version of the U.K. charter to Canada to promote equity and inclusion in research.
Let’s work together to change the higher education workplace so that no one has to keep a secret they don’t want to keep.
Treating a woman scholar’s experience of harassment as insignificant is the first step to normalizing it.
Women shouldn’t feel obligated to take up administrative roles to mitigate past gender biases – we are doing so already, in whatever academic positions we already hold.
We have the tools and the opportunities to gather knowledge and teach the ideas that lead to solutions.
At a meeting of university leaders last month, Louise Champoux-Paillé offered advice for making overdue changes to higher-ed governance.
First four winners will come to Canada from the U.K., New Zealand and the U.S.
Dr. Nemer says she will be a champion for the understanding of science and its role in our everyday lives.
Taking steps to ensure that conscious and unconscious bias do not play a role in hiring and promotion does not mean that excellence cannot exist.
How do I encourage male scientists to join the discussion and be a role model for their colleagues?
The Gender Summit North America 2017 brought academic and corporate leaders together in Montreal to discuss how to foster diversity in organizations and at universities.
Scholars push for a deeper look at how race and racism play out on university campuses.
Kirsty Duncan spoke at the Canadian Science Policy Conference about the importance of equity and diversity in science and addressed “the elephant in the room” – funding.
Universities Canada members voted to uphold seven “inclusive excellence” principles and to undertake an action plan from 2017 to 2022.
It is nearly impossible for talented early career researchers – especially women – to obtain stable funding to operate their labs.