Recommendations and Activities:
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- Collaborated with OVPR to fund postdoctoral fellowship for a Black scholar in 2021-22.
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2024 Update
- Started plans to incorporate topics addressing anti-Black racism into the Ethics Bowl.
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2022 Update
- Planning to expand Ontario’s High School Ethics Bowl to focus more intentionally on philosophical perspectives of Black students and other marginalized scholars and groups.
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2024 Update
- Continued to support the Canadian Philosophical Association’s summer program for under-represented students: five out of the program’s fifteen students in 2023 were Black.
- Organized program talks by Black philosophers, such as former U of T graduates Professor Charles Mills (formerly CUNY, now deceased) and Professor Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie). Created opportunities for Black philosophy students to meet and connect.
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2022 Update
- Supported the Canadian Philosophical Association’s first-ever summer camp for underrepresented students in 2022, led by UTM-faculty member Jennifer Nagel; planning to expand this camp in future years.
Other Efforts:
Planning to grow UTM’s philosophy summer camp
2024 Update
- Began work to re-start UTM’s philosophy summer camp, including intentional efforts to increase access for Black and other underrepresented students.
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2022 Update
- Planning to grow UTM’s philosophy summer camp to include deliberate outreach to under-represented students.
Aiming to collaborate with student clubs
- Aiming to collaborate with student clubs to organize networking events for Black philosophy students, along with seminars on anti-racist philosophical topics.
Creating Research Opportunity Project
- Created a research opportunity project focused on diversifying philosophy curricula, assembling teaching materials for faculty to implement in early-year courses across U of T’s three campuses.