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Dealing with Unpredictability and Career Disruptions
Congress 2021 blog edition The University of Alberta Career Corner’s “Supporting Students’ Career Management” webcast featured strategies supervisors and advisors can employ to best support their students and encourage them to confidently manage...
Resounding Calls for Justice Regarding Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls
Congress 2021 blog edition Hosted by the University of Alberta Signature Area, Intersections of Gender, the open event “ MMIWG Calls for Justice; Indigenous Women on Rising Up” consisted of a series of presentations on reflections in response to the...
Indigenous-led Conservation: A Pathway to Reconcile with our Indigenous Community
Congress 2021 blog edition In the first of Congress 2021’s Big Thinking series, titled “Yáázǫ Kéorat’ı̨ (We see the daylight),” member of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative The Honorable Ethel Blondin-Andrew shed light on how clean water, good...
Hope for an Unsolvable Social Injustice
Congress 2021 blog edition Congress 2021 has taken off with full force. On Thursday morning, opening keynote speaker Dr. Peter Mackie gave an inspiring talk highlighting how people and relations are key to ending homelessness. Dr. Mackie, Reader at...
Toronto’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Demonstrates Racism is Alive and Well in Canada, Expert Says
If you’re among the one in three Canadians who still don’t believe racism is a serious problem in our country, you don’t have to look further than our response to the COVID-19 pandemic for proof that inequity remains deeply rooted here. Dr Frances...
Guess who’s coming to dinner? That is, after you hire us.
Consider the following statements from search committee meetings at various universities involving racialized candidates. My purpose in sharing these statements is to raise questions about institutional commitments to hire Black faculty. “ Our first...
Care is on the ballot: Why COVID-19 should push American voters to pay greater attention to the care economy
We Must Tackle and Dismantle Systemic Racism and White Supremacy.
The exploitation, control and violence against Black people in the Americas is not a new phenomenon. We have seen the world of Black people worsen each day, month, year, decade, and century. The events of May 25, 2020 were another breaking point in...
Accessibility on the Fringes in a Time of Crisis
Post-secondary institutions have responded with alacrity to the needs of undergraduate students, whose lives and studies have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students whose research relies upon lab work, ethnography or archival...