Dalhousie University
PAE-6: Diversity and Equity Coordination

The Council on Employment Equity Through Affirmative Action represents the Dalhousie community. The Council on Employment Equity Through Affirmative Action works through, and with, the Human Rights & Equity Advisor to implement and make continuously effective Dalhousie's policy on affirmative action and equal opportunity.

Bonnie Best-Fleming, Human Rights and Equity Advisor Robin Oakley, DFA representative Raymond Bundy, NSUPE representative Marcia Ozier, CUPE representative Cherilyn MacIntosh, NSGEU representative Christina MacNeil, DPMG representative Michelle McDonald, Aboriginal Peoples Representative Melvina Jones , Racially Visible Peoples Representative Michelle Mahoney, Person with Disability Representative Student Representative Ken Burt, Vice-President - Finance & Administration Bonnie Neuman, Vice-President - Student Services Katherine Sheehan, Assistant Vice-President, Human Resources Carolyn Watters, Vice-President Academic and Provost

The overall mandate of the Office of Human Rights, Equity & Harassment Prevention is to foster and support an inclusive working and learning environment where all members of the University community share responsibility for establishing and maintaining a climate of respect. The Office is responsible for administering a number of University policies including: the Accommodation Policy; the Employment Equity Through Affirmative Action Policy; complaints based on the Statement of Prohibited Discrimination; the Personal Harassment Policy; and the Sexual Harassment Policy. The Advisors also liaise with the Office of the Vice-President, Student Services regarding the Code of Student Conduct. Other initiatives in the Office include education and training on topics such as diversity, accommodation, respectful and inclusive working and learning environments, harassment awareness and prevention, sexual assault, conflict resolution and more. Workshops are offered regularly for students, faculty and staff.

Reporting directly to the President, the Human Rights & Equity Advisor, as executive officer of the Council on Employment Equity Through Affirmative Action, is responsible for the implementation and effective maintenance of Dalhousie's policy on affirmative action and equal opportunity. This Human Rights & Equity Advisor is a member of the President's Advisory Council and shall have free access to all information, general and specific, on employment at Dalhousie, including the right to attend all Committee, Senate or Board meetings dealing with employment. The Human Rights & Equity Advisor and his or her staff will: • Compile and monitor inventories of designated group members employed at Dalhousie. • Collect and analyze external workforce data. • Based on these inventories and workforce data, prepares and recommends measurable goals and timetables for the recruitment, advancement and work environment of members of the designated groups. • Devises and recommend to all levels of the administration of the University recruitment, outreach, training and sensitization strategies relating to affirmative action for members of the designated groups. • Advise and assist all levels of the administration in carrying out recruitment and outreach programs and training and sensitization sessions. • Monitor the University's performance under this policy, receive complaints, and, with the Council, recommend strategies for improvement to the President and other levels of administration. • Provide periodic reviews of the implementation of this policy to the President and the Council