Research for Action towards Equity

Quantitatively, The Canadian University Association of Teachers’ 2018 “Equity Report” clearly states that racial equity in university hiring remains disproportionately favourable to White applicants. Similarly, it is also evident that the upper levels of the university hierarchy are also absent of BIPOC administrators. Even advancement opportunities that are closely tied to neutral metrics, such as research, continue to remain out of reach of BIPOC academics. This has required granting organizations, such as the Canada Research Chair governance to adopt a “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan” (2018), in an effort to assure greater transparency and accountability of allocations through denial of further funding if basic equity targets are not met.

Bluntly put, Canadian Universities are simply not practicing what they claim in regard to attracting students through promises of “safe spaces”, “diversity”, “equity”, “decolonization”, “recruitment and retainment strategies of BIPOC faculty”, and an endless discourse of “social justice” that do not reflect lived realities. 

Our proposed research projects require BIPOC community support and online based knowledge mobilization to assure that the nature of Canada’s higher education as being steeped in White privilege is fully exposed. The purpose of our research is to provide a better quality of education, community service and research to Canadian society that is not biased on racial prejudice, rather acknowledges best candidates. 

To achieve our vision, we are preparing the following research project proposals for 2022/2023: 

  1. Create an “early stage” checklist for victims of systemic racism; 

  2. Understand how racial differences in Academic Mobbing situations are utilized in attacking the BIPOC academic (racial stereotypes); 

  3. Chronicle experiences of BIPOC academics and systemic racism to build a collective voice and alleviate feelings of isolation and depression through community; 

  4. Reveal typical tactics of faculty and administration in creating trigger points of stress in victims of systemic racism to justify reprimand, suspension or termination; 

  5. Build a ranking system of Canadian Universities that are most accountable and transparent about addressing systemic racism, and:

  6. Develop a “how to” book on enacting systemic racism, based on collecting the progression of events of a complainant that results in them going from victim to aggressor in order to suppress truth.

If you want to join the BIPOC Academic Coalition and assist in our research endeavours, please contact us via email and click the “join” button below.