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Mentoring, gendered work and an academic career
Sarah Wolfe, University of Waterloo and Ailsa Craig, Memorial University Guest Contributors Every day begins with an email: ‘Here’s my pact. What are you doing today?’ The messages fly back and forth, halfway across the country. Hardly the...
Differential equity: Rocks and other hard places
Donna Palmateer Pennee, University of Western Ontario Guest Contributor As a dean and as a researcher and teacher, I have a personal commitment to equity that is focused on not losing ground for those whose rights have improved significantly, while...
Equity and women of colour: Things are slow to change in the academy
Audrey Kobayashi, Queen's University Guest Contributor Women of colour remain severely underrepresented in Canadian academia. Notwithstanding employment equity policies that have been in place for at least two decades in most universities, they are...
Gender gap distribution of Canada Research Chairs and Canada Excellence Research Chairs
Wendy Robbins, University of New Brunswick Guest Contributor “Many of us in this room have worked our whole career to make things fairer, and now you are pushing us right back!” My comment was a spontaneous reaction to René Durocher, who was...
Children Matter: Equity and childcare on campus
Susan Prentice, University of Manitoba Guest Contributor Photo courtesy myfear on Flickr. Childcare politics are again a hot issue on Canadian campuses. In late November, a coalition of faculty, students and staff dissuaded the University of Victoria...
High educational aspirations of Visible Minority Immigrant Youth in Canada
Harvey Krahn and Alison Taylor, University of Alberta Guest Contributors Photo courtesy m00by on Flickr. The educational aspirations of 15-year-old Canadians are very high, while those of visible minority immigrant (VMI) youth 1 are even higher. Our...
First Nations Higher Education Aspirations in Canada
Tyrone McNeil, President of the First Nations Education Steering Committee, BC Guest Contributor 2009 marked the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This anniversary affords us all an important...
Leadership for Equity in Education: Deficit mentality is a major challenge
John P. Portelli, OISE, University of Toronto Guest Contributor Deficit thinking hinders leadership for equity. It privileges mainstream or conventional thinking and marginalizes any deviation from it. Yet, if one believes in a robust conception of...
Yaffle your way to collaborative research?
Ryan Saxby Hill, Media Relations Ever had a tough problem that you wished you could run past an eminent expert in the field? Do you have a big question that might benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration? Sometimes the first problem is locating...