| Overall Rating | Platinum |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 86.26 |
| Liaison | Karen Oberer |
| Submission Date | Jan. 17, 2024 |
McGill University
PA-5: Diversity and Equity Coordination
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Tynan
Jarrett Director, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Equity at McGill |
Does the institution have a diversity and equity committee, office, and/or officer tasked by the administration or governing body to advise on and implement policies, programs, and trainings related to diversity, equity, inclusion and human rights?:
Does the committee, office and/or officer focus on students, employees, or both?:
A brief description of the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer, including purview and activities:
The Equity Team at McGill is located in the Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic). The team aims to ensure that equity is a key consideration in all decisions affecting academic life at McGill -- whether this relates to student life, teaching and learning, or the appointment, tenure, and promotion of professors.
The Equity team consists of 20 staff members who work on four main strategies:
- Employment Equity, which seeks to ensure a diverse and representative McGill workforce, where all are fully supported in their efforts to flourish and succeed in their professional endeavours;
- Equity Education, which aims to enhance awareness and capacity in relation to equity principles, obligations, and best practices for ensuring a campus climate that is respectful and inclusive;
- Research Equity, which works to build research environments marked by diversity and equality of opportunity for training, funding, grants and awards, and to ensure the equitable assessment of scholarship and of researchers throughout the University community;
- Preventing and Responding to Misconduct, which commits to raising awareness about harassment, discrimination and sexual violence, the prevention of these harms, supporting those who’ve experienced such harms, and ensuring effective mechanisms for reporting and investigating complaints.
The Equity team offers workshops for faculty, staff, and students; has a Universal Access Capital Projects working group; organizes major events, such as McGill Black History Month; Indigenous Awareness Weeks, Queer History Month, etc.; and oversees the Awards for Equity & Community Building nomination and awarding process.
Estimated proportion of students that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
Estimated proportion of academic staff that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
Estimated proportion of non-academic staff that has participated in cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
A brief description of the institution’s cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities:
In 2019, McGill implemented It Takes All of Us, a mandatory online sexual violence education program for the entire McGill community, including students, staff, and faculty. The program was designed to increase awareness of sexual violence and help shift campus culture to one of respect and consent. The program includes four modules, which address sexual violence, consent, bystander intervention, and supporting survivors. A new, updated version was launched in early 2023.
Moreover, all members of Academic Search Committees must attend a two hour training on Equity and Inclusion in the Academic Search process.
The Equity Education Advisors offer 14 Equity Education Workshops for faculty and staff and organize ad hoc workshops on request. (https://www.mcgill.ca/equity/initiatives-education/equity-education)
Teaching and Learning Services offers the "Our Shared Spaces" series of workshops through SKILLS21, a skills development program for undergraduate students. Our Shared Spaces is an educational workshop series that creates spaces in which students are empowered to foster inclusive and equitable living and learning environments on campus. (https://www.mcgill.ca/skillsets/offerings/our-shared-spaces)
Website URL where information about the institution’s diversity and equity office or trainings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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