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After global anti-Black racism protests in 2020, many universities pledged to make DEI changes but funding and political shifts threaten those commitments. Here, the Simon Fraser University graduating Beedie School of Business students at a ceremony in Burnaby, B.C. in 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Reckoning and resistance: The future of Black hiring commitments on campus

The true commitment to racial justice lies not in performative statements, but in sustained support for marginalized scholars and research, even during economic and political precarity.
Young academics need a strong, properly structured support system to climb the ranks and one day become professors. From www.shutterstock.com

Professors aren’t born: they must be nurtured

There are compelling educational reasons to employ more black academics in universities and to give them all the support they’ll need to become professors.

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