Last June, a group of 21 students and alumni from Canada’s Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication published a call to action directed at the school, saying that it has “created an environment where BIPOC students feel that they do not belong.”
A few days after the letter was published, Carleton responded to the letter with several promises to do better. Chief among them was hiring a new position — the Carty Chair in Journalism, Diversity and Inclusion Studies.
Nine months later, the school announced that Nana aba Duncan will be the Carty Chair. It’s a new role at Carleton (whose journalism school, launched in 1945, is the oldest in Canada) and one of just a handful of such positions at journalism schools in North America.
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