Topic: Equity and social justice
Contract faculty, Equity and social justice, Health and safety, Politics, Universities and the academic mission
Care work during COVID: A letter from home about privilege, resilience, and capitalism in the academy
Universities claim to re-shape the social, scientific, and economic contours of society for the better. Has the ongoing exploitation of precariously employed […]
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Navigating the pandemic: Living alone but needing to stick together
Whether living alone or caring for others, navigating this pandemic while maintaining a healthy work-life balance has been particularly challenging. Overcoming these […]
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Are Ontario universities and schools doing enough to care for students with children amid the COVID-19 crisis?
Many university students have child care responsibilities that they have had to balance with their academic work. With ongoing uncertainty around in-person […]
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Baby matters: Gender politics in academia beyond COVID-19
Systemic inequality still dominates academia. Male academics continue to hold most senior positions while female academics are overrepresented amongst the precariously employed. […]
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Afua Cooper: My 30-year effort to bring Black studies to Canadian universities is still an upward battle
Adding Black studies to university curricula in Canada has been an upward battle. (Shutterstock) Since my time as a graduate student to […]
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Indigenous scholars struggle to be heard in the mainstream. Here’s how journal editors and reviewers can help
GettyImages In the world of research and scholarship, being published in academic journals is crucial to both the advancement of knowledge and […]
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University survey shows how COVID-19 pandemic is hampering career progress for women and racialized faculty
A cross-Canada survey of university faculty found 68 per cent of females, compared with 32 per cent of males, reported family caregiver […]
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Equity and social justice, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Performance assessment, Teaching and learning
What to do with student evaluations of teaching?
It has been two years since the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations published the Report of the OCUFA Student Questionnaires on […]
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Equity and social justice, Politics, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission
Egerton Ryerson: Racist philosophy of residential schools also shaped public education
Black Lives Matter protesters threw pink paint on a statue of Egerton Ryerson at Ryerson University in Toronto on July 18, 2020. […]
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Canadian universities: 10 years of anti-racist reports but little action
Students often carry the bulk of the burden to combat systemic racism on campus. (GoToVan/Flickr) Last fall, around 20 students sat-in for […]
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