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College Workforces: Canadian Association and University Teachers

college workforces: The result is faculties that fail to reflect the range of backgrounds and identities of the students they teach, says the study, released Friday by the Canadian Association of University Teachers, according to Toronto Star. Have your say Based on data from the 2016 census, it provides a snapshot of university and college workforces and incomes, and highlights entrenched differences in pay and positions. Yet when it comes to the academic workforce, little has changed in the last decade, with only a handful of Black and Indigenous professors, fewer women with coveted full-time positions than men, and significant wage gaps that penalize female and racialized staff, according to a new report. Article Continued Below The findings are discouraging, says Pat Armstrong, a York University sociology professor and co-chair of the association's equity committee. It's pretty clear there's a big gap between the student body and the faculty that's teaching them. Progress is very slow, she said in an interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.