Canadian universities now routinely hire by identity. The Canada Research Chairs program, one of the most prestigious sources of academic jobs, mandates that chairs match national population targets for women, the disabled, Aboriginal peoples and “racialized” groups — based not on the applicant pool, but on national population share. More broadly, many universities require candidates to submit DEI statements defending a particular reading of diversity, an explicit criterion on which they’re evaluated. Fail to support the institution’s version of DEI, and you rank lower.
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