2019 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2019

Session

W-PLEN2 EDI Plenary Session | Session plénière - M. Smith, U. Alberta

W-PLEN2

5 Jun 2019, 15:15

Simon Fraser University

Conveners

W-PLEN2 EDI Plenary Session | Session plénière - M. Smith, U. Alberta

• Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)

2870. “Why we can’t wait: The urgency of diversity and decoloniality in our times” / « Pourquoi ne peut-on attendre? : L’urgence de la diversité et de la décolonisation à notre époque »

Dr Malinda Smith (University of Alberta | ’Université de l’Alberta)

05/06/2019, 15:15

Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère)

This lecture will discuss why, despite over three decades of expressed commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, there are few, if any, Canadian universities, departments, or disciplines that can be held up as exemplars of EDI. Most universities’ approach to EDI seem compliance-based, driven primarily, if not exclusively, by external requirements (e.g. Employment Equity Act, Federal...