Recommendations and Activities:
2.2
4.2
5.1
6.1
A2
A3
B1
B2
B4
B8
C7
2.2
- Helped launch a new research funding program for Black, Indigenous, and Racialized scholars and for anti-racist scholarship, which has already supported 25+ projects.
- Leveraging equity survey data to assess faculty recruitment and searches.
4.2
- Celebrating U of T’s support for Black Research Network; working with partners to develop BRN’s on-campus space.
5.1
- Volunteering to serve on a committee to support the creation of more campus spaces for Black students.
6.1
2024 Update
- Collaborated with EDIO to host two equity-centered workshops for academic chairs and directors, focusing on strategies to address racism and improve the complaints process for faculty.
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2022 Update
- Offering to support tri-campus efforts to improve the complaints and investigations process for UTM faculty.
A2
2024 Update
- Aimed to leverage equity census data to inform recruitment, hiring, and other initiatives, recognizing that divisional access to comprehensive data remains limited.
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2022 Update
- Preparing to support the collection of student equity data at the departmental level.
A3
2024 Update
- Completed the pilot for UTM’s STEM scholars program to recruit, and enable the advancement of, outstanding Black students in science, technology, and mathematics.
- Developed plans to support our pilot cohort of Black STEM scholars over time.
- Created the STEM excellence award – valued at $8,000 over four years – to recruit, and celebrate accomplishments of, more Black students than admitted through the STEM scholars pilot.
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2022 Update
- Actively exploring options to recruit more Black students, including through a UTM version of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program for diversity in STEM fields.
B1
- Offering to support a UTM-wide equity-focused lecture series for the Black Research Network.
B2
2024 Update
- Continued conversations with tri-campus partners to create new CLTA positions for Black faculty as a next step after the provost’s postdoctoral fellowship.
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2022 Update
- Looking for a commitment of funding to support new CLTA growth positions for Black faculty.
B4
- Exploring options to create a UTM-based program for Black postdoctoral fellows.
B8
2024 Update
- Accelerated work on a multi-year mentoring program for all UTM faculty.
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2022 Update
- Collaborating with Black Research Network on a new multi-level mentoring program to support and retain Black, Indigenous, and racialized faculty; exploring options for workshops to support equity-deserving graduate students.
C7
2024 Update
- Enabled eight academic departments and institutes to incorporate EDI into the annual PTR assessment process.
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2022 Update
- Encouraging all chairs and directors to incorporate EDI into their PTR assessment process.