Universities team up to diversify future boardrooms

A new programme at universities across Atlantic Canada seeks to attract more Indigenous and Black students to business programmes in an effort to diversify boardrooms across the country, writes Aly Thomson for CBC News.

The Atlantic Promise Scholars Initiative includes 11 universities from the four Atlantic provinces and provides financial aid and other supports to Indigenous and Black students. The initiative started at Dalhousie University in Halifax in March 2020, but was expanded this spring to include business schools across the region.

Tarek Mady, the interim dean of the faculty of business at the University of Prince Edward Island, said the programme is going to make a “huge difference”. “This will benefit students individually, that’s the short-term effect,” said Mady. “But we’re hoping that in the long run, it will actually contribute to the mandate of creating a much more diverse business community.”
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