UBC film studies professor Brian McIlroy reviews the last 25 years of hiring in academia in an op-ed for University Affairs. He notes that much progress still needs to be made, although there have been incremental gains made.
His own department at UBC has achieved gender parity but only one faculty member belongs to a visible minority and no one has identified as having a major disability, said McIlroy. “[W]e in the arts…have failed to make progress on issues relating to diversity in the round.”
