{"id":2194,"date":"2022-06-03T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T17:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2022-05-31T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:18:10","slug":"higher-ed-are-ramping-up-targeted-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/higher-ed-are-ramping-up-targeted-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Ed are Ramping Up Targeted Hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University job postings seldom get noticed by the public. But this spring,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtlblog.com\/quebec\/a-universite-laval-job-thats-not-open-to-white-men-is-concerning-some-quebec-politicians\">Quebec politicians<\/a>, the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jamie-sarkonak-why-canadian-universities-are-refusing-to-hire-able-bodied-white-males\">National Post<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/canadian-universitys-tenure-track-position-open-women-transgender-non-binary-two-spirit-people\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0took umbrage at advertisements for Canada Research Chair (CRC) positions at Universit\u00e9 Laval, the University of Toronto and others that stipulated only women, visible minorities, Indigenous people and people with disabilities should apply.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/vpr\/sites\/vprwww\/files\/uploaded_files\/CanadaResearchChairs\/November2021\/OCCRC202109_CRCTier-1_Geotechnical_final.pdf\">Queen\u2019s University<\/a>\u00a0posting for an engineering chair that was open only to women; a University of Waterloo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/research\/sites\/ca.research\/files\/uploads\/files\/crct2-aa-ad.pdf\">faculty of environment position<\/a>\u00a0for someone who identifies as a woman, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit; and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/facultyrelations\/careers\/pdf\/CRC-Scholar-with-Disability_2021.pdf\">Western University<\/a>\u00a0ad for a Tier 1 CRC job for a person with a disability \u201cin any area of research across Western\u2019s eleven faculties\u201d have similarly been drawing attention.<\/p>\n<p>All of these institutions were following guidance and diversity targets laid out by the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat, which is the government body responsible for administering the CRC program. Amid these small-scale controversies, the secretariat\u2019s directives may be transforming diversity mandates at Canadian universities. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve heard from many faculty and institutions is that our work to promote equity, diversity and inclusion has increased discussions and actions within institutions, and the research ecosystem more broadly,\u201d said Marie-Lynne Boudreau, the secretariat\u2019s director.<\/p>\n<p>The CRC targets are based on the 2016 census and will ramp up, by 2029, to see 50 per cent women, 22 per cent racialized minorities, 4.9 per cent Indigenous peoples and 7.5 per cent persons with disabilities holding chair appointments. As of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca\/about_us-a_notre_sujet\/statistics-statistiques-eng.aspx\">October 2021<\/a>, women held 40.9 per cent of these prestigious research jobs, visible minorities 22.8 per cent, Indigenous peoples 3.4 per cent, and people with disabilities 5.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityaffairs.ca\/news\/news-article\/universities-are-ramping-up-targeted-hiring-to-meet-crc-equity-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University job postings seldom get noticed by the public. But this spring,\u00a0Quebec politicians, the\u00a0National Post\u00a0and even\u00a0Fox News\u00a0took umbrage at advertisements for Canada Research Chair (CRC) positions at Universit\u00e9 Laval, the University of Toronto and others that stipulated only women, visible minorities, Indigenous people and people with disabilities should apply. A\u00a0Queen\u2019s University\u00a0posting for an engineering chair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,167,166,145,127,184,115,1],"tags":[176,171,141,131,142,138,160,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}