“EDI in admissions and hiring: the case in favour: Malinda S. Smith argues that equity strengthens excellence in university hiring and admissions” | Prof.v. Prof. @universityaffairs.bsky.social universityaffairs.ca/opinion/edi-...
Dr. Malinda S. Smith
@malindasmith.bsky.social
Associate Vice President Research, Full Prof Political Science | Inclusive Research Excellence, Epistemic Pluralism | Coauthor, The Equity Myth (2017); CoEd, Critical Concepts:An Intro to Politics (2023); Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (2022)
Les arguments en faveur de l’application des principes d’EDI dans le traitement des admissions et le recrutement l’équité renforce l’excellence dans les processus de recrutement et d’admission à l’université. | @universityaffairs.bsky.social www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion-fr/l...
Les arguments en faveur de l’application des principes d’EDI dans le traitement des admissions et le recrutement - Affaires universitaires
Selon Malinda S. Smith, l’équité renforce l’excellence dans les processus de recrutement et d’admission à l’université.
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Les arguments en faveur de l’application des principes d’EDI dans le traitement des admissions et le recrutement - Affaires universitaires www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion-fr/l...
Les arguments en faveur de l’application des principes d’EDI dans le traitement des admissions et le recrutement - Affaires universitaires
Selon Malinda S. Smith, l’équité renforce l’excellence dans les processus de recrutement et d’admission à l’université.
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My contribution to the University Affairs “Prof v. Prof” summer series. “EDI in admissions and hiring: the case in favour Malinda S. Smith argues that equity strengthens excellence in university hiring and admissions”-UA Magazine @universityaffairs.bsky.social universityaffairs.ca/opinion/edi-...
EDI in admissions and hiring: the case in favour - University Affairs
Malinda S. Smith argues that equity strengthens excellence in university hiring and admissions.
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University Affairs’ Prof v. Prof series models thoughtful scholarly debate on major issues in Canadian #highereducation. The first 2 debates examine curriculum alignment and institutional neutrality. Next week, I join the series. Read, reflect, and engage. universityaffairs.ca/category/opi...
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Lecture 2: "A World of Empire" Totalitarianism did not emerge from nowhere. It was a response particularly to empires that Europeans had created. Free online course: "Hitler and Stalin Today" Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca Full lecture: youtu.be/PDOGV5Gl6SE?...
Obsessing about our mental health is part of our mental health problem. We have to stop pathologizing ordinary life and everyday human emotions, by Clay Routledge www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Opinion | Obsessing About Our Mental Health Is Part of Our Mental Health Problem
We need to support psychological well-being without fixating on it.
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When the Algorithm Decides: Race, Risk, and AI in Canada's Justice System drbeny.substack.com/p/when-the-a...
When the Algorithm Decides: Race, Risk, and AI in Canada's Justice System
Back in 2016, I started learning about algorithmic bias and how the data collected can disproportionately impact racialized groups.
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Dr. William A. Smith Didn’t Study Burnout In Black Women: He Studied The System That Produces It – IMPACT Magazine www.theimpactmagazine.com/lifestyle/dw...
We have some work to do to close the gender wage gap. Alberta leads Canada in gender pay gap. By Tyler Barrow | CTV News www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Alberta leads Canada in gender pay gap
Women in Alberta earn 64 cents for every dollar men make annually, according to a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
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‘No comment’ is becoming a problem. Government officials and other public figures are exhibiting a growing lack of accountability, and increased hostility toward the press, by Sandra E. Martin www.theglobeandmail.com/standards-ed... via @theglobeandmail.com #journalism
Standards Editor: ‘No comment’ is becoming a problem
Journalists can only report what they can verify and they are ethically required to offer right of reply to story subjects
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The Fourth of July fireworks display in the capital impacted the amount of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere.
D.C. Air Quality Reaches ‘Code Purple’ After Fireworks And Heat Wave
The Fourth of July fireworks display in the capital impacted the amount of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere.
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Nobel Laureates call for science to remain democratic: “Steinmeier…science needs freedom to operate, just as “democracy needs free science”…for decades “an almost irrefutable conviction” but that “the allure of authoritarianism is growing in many places”“ www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Nobel Laureates call for science to remain democratic
Independent scientific research and teaching is needed both as a cautionary voice and a corrective to the political paternalism that threatens the fou...
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Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story: Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story
Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.
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Why science needs the humanities more than ever: From AI to biotechnology, today’s scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and social challenges that technical expertise alone cannot solve. #humanities @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why science needs the humanities more than ever
From AI to biotechnology, today’s scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and social challenges that technical expertise alone cannot solve.
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Creating and scaling up a framework for inclusive research excellence: #UCalgary awarded federal funding from Dimensions Canada. Pamela Hyde, Office of the Vice-President (Research), @ucalgary.bsky.social #highered #cdnpse. ucalgary.ca/news/creatin...
Creating and scaling up a framework for inclusive research excellence
UCalgary awarded federal funding from Dimensions Canada
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Advancing Black excellence in higher education | University of Manitoba to host the national Scarborough Charter forum in 2028 | UMToday @umanitoba.bsky.social umtoday.ca/stories/adva...
Advancing Black excellence in higher education
UM to host the national Scarborough Charter forum in 2028
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What a rich and warm discussion on what universities are and could be and the forces that stand in the way. Many thanks to: James McNinch @malindasmith.bsky.social and Shannon Dea
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson — “The Coexistence of Creation and G… podcast.show/tendingourro...
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson — “The Coexistence of Creation and G…
This week we’re Tending Our Roots with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and scholar. Leanne teaches through story, song, an…
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Linda Tuhiwai Smith — “Family, Community, and Land” podcast.show/tendingourro...
Linda Tuhiwai Smith — “Family, Community, and Land”
On this week’s episode of Tending Our Roots, we sit down with Māori scholar, Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) — the grandmother of Indigenous research. …
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Thoughts on Canada: “The Viewpoint Diversity Debate in Canadian Universities.” @universityaffairs.bsky.social universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-... “La question de la diversité des points de vue dans les universités canadiennes” Affaires universitaires,“ www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion-fr/l...
The viewpoint diversity debate in Canadian universities - University Affairs
Taking free inquiry seriously means rejecting unverified crisis narratives.
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Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:
This is the way. We do not need to accept the right’s bad-faith and blatantly dishonest caricature of higher education. Colleges and universities regularly platform views across the political spectrum, perhaps more than any other American institution.
Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:
How Higher Ed can Help Foster Hope and the Pluralism Dividend—Academica Forum ”higher education, agreement, consensus, disagreement, debate, dialogue, and deliberation are not interchangeable terms or relationships. Each names a distinct civic practice” #highered forum.academica.ca/forum/illumi...
We lost one of the great ones today. RIP to the saxophone colossus, Sonny Rollins. #SonnyRollins #Jazz #Musicsky
Federal court blocks Alabama’s midterm gerrymandering plan, a blow for Republicans
Federal court blocks Alabama’s midterm gerrymandering plan, a blow for Republicans
The three-judge panel blocked the state from reimplementing its 2023 congressional maps they found as “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”
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Pleased to share my new commentary: How Higher Ed can Help Foster Hope the Pluralism Dividend — Academica Forum, forum.academica.ca/forum/illumi...
How Higher Ed can Help Foster Hope and the Pluralism Dividend — Academica Forum
Malinda S Smith (University of Calgary) explains how higher ed institutions can play a critical role in fostering help to foster plural democracies and the pluralism dividend.
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How (not) to organise a panel at a global health conference - The Lancet Global Health @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
How (not) to organise a panel at a global health conference
Global health is unfortunately not very global—a contradiction that becomes most evident at global health conferences. Although convened to advance the field of global health, these conferences often ...
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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.: New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
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