

Equity, Diversity, And Inclusivity
EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ADVOCACY POLICY
The Students’ Union collectively represents tens of thousands of undergraduate students at the University of Calgary who come from an innumerable amount of diverse identities and backgrounds. To ensure the Students’ Union is appropriately equipped to include and advocate for all students it represents, this policy was created in the 77th SLC and reaffirms the SU’s commitment to the values of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Policy
SU INITIATIVES THAT SUPPORT EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSIVITY
SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES, AND AWARDS
- Created an EDI award to recognize and reward anti-racism work being done by student clubs
- Successfully fought for $2 million in needs-based bursaries for students through the university’s Tuition Reinvestment Bursary program.
- Created scholarship and bursary opportunities for students from traditionally marginalized communities:
- Violet King Engaged Scholar Award
- Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Advocacy (IDEA) Award
- SU Pride Scholarship
- SU Able Award
- International Student Financial Need Bursary
- Indigenous Award (more information coming soon)
COLLABORATION ACROSS CAMPUS
- Created an EDI taskforce so that student concerns can be heard by the SU
- Ongoing collaboration with the university community on EDI initiatives, including with Malinda Smith (Vice Provost EDI) and Michael Hart (Vice Provost Indigenous Engagement)
ANTI-RACISM AND EDI POLICIES
- Created an EDI Advocacy Policy for the SU
- Created and implemented an Anti-Racism Policy to ensure that the SU is an anti-racist workplace
- Successfully advocated for an acknowledgement of intersectionality to be included in the university’s Sexual Violence Policy
- The SU’s Policy Development and Review Committee has taken on the project of reviewing all SU policies to ensure they take into account issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion
ADVOCACY THROUGH AN EDI LENS
- Ongoing advocacy regarding the use of Online Educational Resources (OERs)
- Continued advocacy around scholarship and bursary criteria for students with learning disabilities and low income and BIPOC students
OTHER ANTI-RACISM AND EDI EFFORTS THROUGHOUT THE SU
- The Students’ Legislative Council takes anti-racism training annually
- Offer Ramadan hampers at the Campus Food Bank for community members who need assistance celebrating the holiday
- Teaching Excellence Awards criteria includes consideration of how instructors address inclusivity in the classroom
- Q Centre: SU Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity and its programming like Sex Week
- Created the only multi-stall gender inclusive washroom on campus (in Mac Hall, room 206W)
- Ensure the collection of race-based data in the annual SU survey
- Offer clubs funding for anti-racism training for their members
- Continuing to fund student anti-racism and EDI initiatives through SU Clubs Special Event Funding
- Employ accessibility best practices on all SU social media channels
- Amplify anti-racism and other EDI efforts by students all year long on SU social media channels
- Sharing anti-racism and LGBTQ2SIA+ positive resources on the SU website
- Annual Black History Month programming
EDI initiatives at the University of Calgary funded through the SU’s Quality Money program
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ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS DOING GREAT WORK
- ActionDignity
- Alberta Assembly of Social Workers
- Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies
- Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre
- Canadian Cultural Mosaic Foundation
- CommunityWise
- Edmonton Centre for Race and Culture
- YYC Voices
CANADIAN ORGANIZATIONS DOING GREAT WORK
- Black Lives Matter – Toronto
- Black Lives Matter – Vancouver
- Black Health Alliance
- Black Youth Helpline
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation
- Canadian Anti-Racism Education and Research Society
- Canada Anti-Hate Network
- Urban Alliance on Race Relations (Toronto)
- HuffPost – Black Organizations and Anti-Racist Groups Canadians Can Support Now
LEARN MORE
- Calgary Anti-Racism Education
- “The 1619 Project”
- “Remembering Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Colour killed by Canadian police” article
- Vox Explained – Racial Wealth Gap
- NowThis – Layla Saad on Her Book ‘Me and White Supremacy’
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis
- NPR’s Code Switch: A Decade of Watching Black People Die
- Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.
- Malcolm X on CBC’s Front Page Challenge
- James Baldwin debates William F. Buckley at Cambridge University
- Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada From Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
- The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindless by Michelle Alexander
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