Previously offered in the Equity Matters Seminar Series
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Equity Matters: Reckoning before Reconciling: Collective Commitment, Indigenous Nationhood, and the Individualistic Limits of EDI Policies, March 2023. **Recording of the session is available on YouTube** Professor Daniel Heath Justice discussed how Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) policies can prioritize individualized representation and obligation rather than systemic and sustainable transformation. He considered Indigenous nationhood and collective rights and responsibilities as fundamental to decolonial justice in and beyond the academy, as much in formal policy as in interpersonal, pedagogical, and professional relationships.
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Equity Matters - Presumed Incompetent: Lessons from the Struggle and Victories of Racialized and Indigenous Women in Academia, May 2022. **More information about this session, including a recording, is available here** Drawing upon the personal narratives and empirical studies in Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia (2020), Professor Carmen G. González discussed the obstacles that racialized and Indigenous women encounter as scholars, teachers, and participants in faculty governance, and the strategies that can be deployed to remove these barriers. This presentation will be of interest to those who seek to achieve greater equity and inclusion in the academic workplace. Following the seminar, a discussion was facilitated by Professor Sharlene Mollett.
- Equity Matters: A Conversation with the UTSC Campus Curriculum Review Working Circle, November 2021. **Recording available here.** During this session, the Working Circle shared preliminary findings of the campus-wide curriculum review, launched last fall to assess curriculum and related pedagogical supports as part of the campus’ commitment to inclusion, equity, decolonization and anti-racism. UTSC faculty, librarians, staff and students provided feedback as the Working Circle finalizes an action plan and recommendations. More information about the curriculum review: Curriculum Review website, UTSC Campus Curriculum Review Terms of Reference, 2020-2021, UTSC article: Inclusion at the centre of curriculum review working circle
- Equity Matters: Building a More Inclusive Curriculum - Amy Sueyoshi, Dean, San Francisco State University, January 2020. **Recording available here** This online event was organized in conjunction with campus-wide conversations about curriculum renewal as we work to ensure our commitment to inclusion, Indigeneity, and anti-racism outlined in the UTSC Strategic Plan is reflected across our programs, curriculum, pedagogical approaches and supports. The seminar, given by Dean Amy Sueyoshi (San Francisco State University), discussed a campus-wide initiative Sueyoshi led to promote undergraduate education in race, ethnicity, social justice, and equity. A panel discussion led by Professor Aarthi Ashok, Professor Dani Kwan-Lafond and Professor Lance McCready followed to discuss learnings, the local context and possible next steps. Discussions were moderated by Professor Jessica Fields and Professor Katherine Larson.
- Equity Matters: Representation at UofT: Are we Turning the TIDE? - Maydianne Andrade, Vice-Dean Faculty Affairs & Equity, University of Toronto Scarborough; February 2020. In this session, former Vice-Dean Faculty Affairs & Equity Maydianne Andrade discussed some of the challenges to the hiring and retention of diverse people in the academy, and reviewed programs at U of T aimed at ensuring equitable representation. The seminar was followed by a lunch and panel discussion with Prof. Mark Campbell and Prof. Prof Ruby Sullan to discuss learnings from the series to date within the local context, and importantly: where do we go from here?
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Equity Matters: Strongly Committed to Diversity - Professor Carl James, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, Faculty of Education, York University; October 2020. In this conversation, we reflected on the ‘strength’ of the ‘commitment to employment equity and diversity within the university community,’ and the efforts it takes to “contribute to the further diversification of [scholarly] ideas.” We examined the ways in which such commitments – commonly seen in universities’ Diversity Statement and job advertisements – are operationalized and hence evident in the hiring, retention and promotion of “designated group” scholars, as well as administrators and staff. For despite these statements of commitment to equity, diversity, access and inclusion, there are disconcerting paradoxes between the stated policies and the programs and practices of institutions. The fact is, as many have observed – and supported by research studies – even with the “multicultural” and community programs, the diverse student bodies, website images, and investigation reports, there continues to be lack of diversity amongst faculty.
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Equity Matters - Seminar & Discussion with Professor Imogen Coe, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Ryerson University; January 2019. In this session, Prof. Coe presented a talk on EDI in STEM, which was followed by a discussion.
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Equity Matters: Beyond Contested Diversities: Intersectional Equity Matters at Canadian Universities - Professor Malinda Smith, Pierre Elliot Trudeau Fellow; Provost Fellow, University of Alberta; October 2018. In this session, Prof. Smith presented data from her co-authored book 'The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities, which was followed by a discussion.
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Equity Matters: Finding Ways to Honour the Trailblazing Women of the Past & Future – Elly Zupko, communications specialist, founder of SMLX Good; 2017. In 2014, people across the world saw a lead scientist from the European Space Agency appear on international television to talk about the Philae lander mission wearing a garment covered in scantily-clad women. It became known as “that shirt.” Elly responded by designing “that other shirt,” which features over 50 notable women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics). Her successful Kickstarter campaign led to the formation of a non-profit, SMLX Good, which supports STEM programs for girls and has raised over $40,000. Elly discussed how women in STEM & EDI are supported through SMLX Good.
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