98 Percent of Academic Job Postings in Canada Use DEI Screening: Study

Nine in 10 academic job postings from some of the largest universities in Canada incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles in their hiring processes, a new study suggests.
The analysis, published by the Calgary-based think tank Aristotle Foundation, says that 98 percent of active job postings at 10 of Canada’s largest public universities include DEI requirements or strategies for filling vacancies.
The authors say such measures result in “discriminatory hiring” at the expense of merit, arguing they lead to preferential treatment, or exclusion, of people based on criteria such as race, ethnicity, or gender.
The study reviewed roughly 50 active academic job advertisements at each province’s largest public university between November 2023 and April 2024. It found that 477 of the 489 total postings employed some DEI measure….