0:05 Good morning Ryersonians. I'm Muhad Ahrali. 0:08 And I'm Sevarina Chiu. This is Rye Report where we're bringing you the top stories of the week. 0:13 This week on the show we'll talk about the lack of racialized employees at Ryerson, startup zones in Vietnam and international students rising tuition fees. 0:22 Plus the fall launch of the Ryerson Image Art Center and a discussion with one of the exhibit curators. 0:28 A study in the Ryerson Board of Governors report shows a slight improvement in the number of racialized employees. The 2018 employee diversity self ID report shows an increase from 31% to 34% of racialized staff representation on campus. Ryerson's Director of Research and Planning in the Equity office says the university wants to have its staff reflect his students. 0:52 What's more important is to see where the progress is being made and where it isn't. And then to work with different members of the community to find ways to identify and remove barriers and to improve our progress. 1:07 Ryerson completes this diversity survey every three years, the next one will be published in 2021. 1:14 International Students are facing a rise in their already high tuition. First year students are now looking at anywhere from a 6.3 to 26.5% tuition fee increase. This is a dramatic climb from its usual 5%. Rising tuition and Toronto's high cost of living puts financial pressure on international students and their families. It's forced some students to find side jobs. The CBC reported in June that students find themselves working more hours than their visa lets them to. This puts them at risk for deportation. President of the Canadian Federation of Students and international student Filipe Ngada says that they have no choice if they want to survive in the city. If tuition fees continue to rise the way they are he says that this situation will only continue. 1:59 Ryerson Zone Startups in Vietnam says it has assisted 11 organizations in Hoshi Minh city since its launched 10 months ago. Companies under Zone Startup Vietnam received management advice, consulting and investment funds from the program. Matt Saunders is the president of the Ryerson program. He says it is helping liberal highschool. It uses SMS laptops and online forums to connect teachers with students. Another company is Fee Pass. It develops facial recognition and behavioral analysis technology to be used in security cameras. Ryerson says Zone Startup Vietnam receives a share in the startup organizations in exchange for the help. The Vietnamese startup market is much larger market than in Canada. There are 100 million people in Vietnam and 100,000 engineering graduates a year. 2:54 The start of a new semester means a new season of art. Ryerson Image Art Center celebrated its fall launch on Wednesday with two new exhibits on display. The Dot P year end exhibit was created by Ryerson Fine Arts graduate Lucy Lu. It looks into the cultural identity crisis that lots of Chinese Canadians face. Lu describes it as a love letter to her first home in China. The way she looks a history of female gazes and African portraiture showcases how African photography has evolved. The exhibit explores portraits through the eyes of women and their roles both in front and behind the camera. We had the chance to speak to Sandreen Colard, who was asked by Ryerson to curate this exhibit. Here she talks about how she approached the collection and the inspiration behind it all. 3:38 I wanted to approach the collection from a certain angle, because I didn't want just to repeat things that had been done before. And so I had this idea for a long time to try to tell a story of African women in photography, that was slightly different from what we are used to. You know very often, we tend to think about the photographers you know, who are usually male, I mean, up to the present point. They're usually male. And so they're very often the centre of the history. But I wanted to show how, as subjects and then as photographers, women had also an impact on their portraits and representation. And so I came up with this title the Way She Looks, because it was very, for me, it was interesting to point how the African women in history even before the contemporary period had, you know, the power to look to choose how they want to sometimes have the power to choose how they're going to be represented. And see, this is really what I wanted to put forward. And so it was interesting, because when I came up with this title, every single person I tested this title with immediately as soon as I was talking about the physical books, they very rarely understood what I was talking about the way they looked at something. And so for me, it was interesting because it said a lot about the fact that we rarely, rarely assume that women have the power to look at things and then to see things because of this power of being able to look at other things so. 5:08 Both exhibits run through reading week. 5:10 You've been listening to Rye Report, I'm Muhad Ahrali. 5:13 And I'm Sevarina Chiu. Tune in next week for Ryerson's top news stories.