ALGONQUIN COLLEGE WORKFORCE DIVERSITY REPORT 2025

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2025 Workforce Diversity Data Infographic
All data as of April 3, 2025, as provided by employees in the ongoing equity census. 3,695 active employees were surveyed with a response rate of 76%. 2,822 employees responded to some or all of the questions.Categories with <5 responses were suppressed to ensure confidentiality


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Diversity Snapshot

Diversity Snapshot; 56.1% women (n=1584), 6.9% 2SLGBTQ+ (n=188); 2.4% Indigenous People (n=67)Workforce Diversity Snapshot; 23.8% Racialized People (n=672), 10.8% People with Disabilities (n=306), 7.1% Francophones (n=188)

Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation; Bisexual 24%, Aesexual 4%, Transgender 5%; Lesbian/Gay 29%; Queer 21%; Gender non-conforming 8%; Not listed 8%; n=261

Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous People; First Nation Non Status 10%, Metis 48%; First Nation Status 43%; n=67

Limitations Experienced by Persons with Disabilities

Limitations experienced by persons with disabilities; mental health or emotional disability 44% n=129 ; intellectual or a learning impairment 32% n=91; pain related disability, chronic or episodic 22% n= 64; physical disability 20% n=20 ; Sensory disability 16% n=50; not listed 12% n=36; n=431

Racial and Ethnic Composition

Racial and Ethnic Composition; 21% South Asian (n=153)' Black 17% (n=122); Arab 15% (n=107); Latin American 11% (n=79); Chinese 10% n=69); West Asian 7% n=53; Filipino 6% n=48; Korean 5% n=20; Southeast Asian n=7; Japanese 2% n=5;

Relevant Definitions

2SLGBTQ+: a person who does not identify as cisgender and/or heterosexual (these may include but are not limited to people who identify as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, two-spirited, queer, trans-gender, gender fluid, nonbinary, etc.) The terminology used is not meant to label individuals but rather to be helpful functional descriptors. They are not standardized and may be used differently by different people and is deeply personal.

Disability: Persons with Disabilities are persons who have a long-term or recurring physical, mental, sensory, psychiatric or learning impairment who,
a) consider themselves to be disadvantaged in employment because of that impairment, or b) believe that an employer or potential employer is likely to consider them to be disadvantaged in employment by reason of that impairment, and includes persons whose functional limitations owing to their impairment have been accommodated in their current job or workplace.

Francophone: a person who belongs to a population using French as its first or sometimes second language. In the OPSEU Academic Collective Agreement, Francophones are identified as an equity deserving group. 

Indigenous Peoples: Indigenous (Aboriginal) people are persons who are First Nations, Inuit or Métis, Status or Non-Status.

Members of racialized minorities (visible minorities): means persons, other than Indigenous (Aboriginal) peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. A person may be a member of a racialized (visible minority) group regardless of their place of birth or citizenship.

Women: a designated group under the Employment Equity Act. The Act does not define the term ‘woman’ and neither do we.