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March 28, 2020

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$38B

enterprise

As a $35 billion enterprise in direct expenditures, universities are significant drivers of economic prosperity. They provide employment for close to 310,000 people.

Source: Statistics Canada, Financial Information of Universities and Colleges Survey 2017, and Labour Force Survey 2018.
1.4M

students at Canadian universities in 2019

There were about 1,090,000 full-time and 266,000 part-time students in 2019.

Source: Universities Canada estimates based on 2016 Postsecondary Student Information System data.
1.8M

new jobs

Between March 2009 and March 2019, 1,794,500 new jobs were created for university graduates, twice as much as those created for graduates of all other types of postsecondary education combined.

Source: Universities Canada approximation based on Labour force survey data.

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Presidents' perspective

Equity, diversity and inclusion: the challenge to lead

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Text on screen: [Equality, diversity and inclusion: the challenge to lead]

Annette Trimbee, president, University of Winnipeg:

Universities should be leading on a lot of these issues because we have this incredible passion and energy and expertise in our students and our faculty and our staff, and that’s really what we bring to the table. So we’re challenged every day, and I think our students, our faculty, and staff can definitely show us the way, and we just have to let them. It really is, to use a phrase from Rick Hansen, a time to “measure up”. Universities need to set stretch targets, we need to develop action plans, we need to measure progress, and we need to be held to account.

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