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63 out of 76 Canadian universities could not provide a breakdown of their student populations by race.

Gateway Cities News: A lack of racial data collection at Mac

"McMaster is one of 63 Canadian universities that cannot provide a breakdown of its population" Article published in The Silhouette newspaper by Shane Madill

Jun 01, 2017

As revealed by a CBC News investigation in March, 63 out of 76 Canadian universities could not provide a breakdown of their student populations by race. The data is not there to draw any conclusions from.

“How can you decide if access programs are working if you have no way of measuring the population that should be most affected by these access policies?” said Karen Robson, head of the Gateway Cities team and the Ontario Research Chair in Educational Achievement and At-Risk Youth. Keep reading.