Equity and inclusion in action: Summer STEM series
Are you faculty, staff, post-doc or a graduate student leading an EDI initiative in the STEM field? This summer, join our virtual, informal, themed, community-of-practice sessions to help you create action within your unit.
Statement on the Missing Children of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools
We are heartbroken to learn of the confirmation of further burial sites of children at former residential schools. These discoveries are horrifying. UBC stands with First Nations seeking the truth about the missing children. For impacted UBC community members, support services are available.
IBPOC Connections: Building Community, Increasing Representation at UBC
“It’s the first time in my five to ten years at UBC that I’ve walked into a room where other people look like me. It’s the first time as a racialized person that I’m not being asked for something,” attendees of the IBPOC Connections inaugural luncheon told Dr. Maryam Nabavi, a staff and faculty strategist […]
Anti-racism Website, Fund Launched
New anti-racism website provides an overview of and accountability for UBC’s anti-racism efforts and connects the community with resources and updates, including new anti-racism funding available for student, faculty, and staff initiatives.
Activating Inclusion Toolkit
The Activating Inclusion Toolkit is designed to support units across UBC in incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion into their strategic planning, priority initiatives, and systems and structures more broadly.
Through the Lens
Back for a second year, Through the Lens workshop series aims to provoke meaningful conversations on issues of identity, intersectionality, diversity, equity and inclusion. Explore diverse theme and learn how you can help build a more inclusive UBC.
Revised: Listen, Change, Do More
Our work at the Equity & Inclusion Office is not just a job – it is deeply personal and political. For all of us, the commitment is to dismantle structures of power that allow for anti-Black violence to persist and to mobilize for Black liberation. It is essential for the EIO to listen, to see, to hear, to speak up, to change, to do more, and to do better.