In new programme, university seeks more diverse faculty

Canada’s University of Calgary is looking to improve the diversity of its faculty, and will be hiring dozens of professors over the next three years through a new programme, writes Tom Ross for CBC News.

The Inclusive Excellence Cluster Hiring Initiative aims to attract 45 professors to a range of fields in the school. Job postings are specifically targeted towards equity-deserving groups including women, Indigenous and racialised people, as well as people with disabilities.

It’s being launched after an equity, diversity and inclusion report completed in 2021 showed that nearly all faculties at the university lack professors from these groups. The report added that under-representation can create challenges for further recruitment and advancement of academic staff.
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