Changing the name while keeping identity-based hiring rules means nothing has really changed

Alberta’s universities are not dismantling their DEI regimes. They are repainting the signs on the doors.

In January 2025, the University of Alberta announced it was dropping the language of “equity, diversity and inclusion” in favour of “access, community and belonging.” The move was presented as reform. It isn’t. The hiring policies remain. The administrative structures remain. The underlying framework remains.

Other Alberta universities have followed the same script. Mount Royal University quietly rebranded its DEI office as the “Office of Community and Belonging.” The University of Calgary eliminated its vice-provost for DEI and folded the portfolio into an “Office of Institutional Commitments.” The University of Lethbridge replaced its DEI branding with new language while leaving its hiring framework intact.

From a distance, that looks like change. Up close, it is relabelling.

Let’s stop pretending. Changing the sign on the door doesn’t change the system behind it. If the hiring rules are the same, nothing meaningful has changed.Troy Media

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The real test is simple: how many institutions have changed their hiring policies? One. Exactly one.

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