What is a washroom audit? Here is what you need to know.
As part of UBC’s Inclusive Washroom Project, Darcy Bandeen, an Arts undergraduate student, conducted an audit of nearly 1050 washrooms across the UBC Vancouver campus in Spring of 2022. To learn more about the purpose of the audit, we asked Darcy to share some insights about their work. What is a washroom audit and what […]
Annual report highlights EIO efforts to advance inclusion
With increased university-wide engagement around equity, diversity, and inclusion, the Equity & Inclusion Office continued to respond to high levels of requests for advising and consultation and operate as a backbone for the implementation of the Inclusion Action Plan.
Inclusion Action Plan implementation underway university-wide: report
Inaugural Inclusion Action Plan (IAP) annual report provides an overview of structures to operationalize the plan and highlights efforts across institutional, Faculty, and unit levels.
New course to support inclusion of sexual and gender diversity
On the 20-year anniversary of Positive Space at UBC, the new Positive Space: Foundations online course is now available to students, faculty, and staff. The self-guided course, available through the Workplace Learning Ecosystem, provides a low-barrier access for UBC community members to learn about sex, sexuality and gender diversity, and ways to learn about and […]
Student editors reflect on launching an EDI magazine
RESPECT magazine has been developed by students for students with support from faculty members Anita Chaudhuri and Rishma Chooniedass. Funded through the Equity Enhancement Fund, the magazine seeks an alternative way to publish different student points of view on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and to develop a respectful and safe environment at UBC Okanagan. We connected with the student editorial team to […]
August 1st is Emancipation Day
Unanimously designated as Emancipation Day by the House of Commons in 2021, this day marks the enactment of the Slavery Abolition Act on August 1, 1834 across the British Empire.