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UBC recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2022
March 9, 2022
UBC has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2022. This designation recognizes employers across Canada with exceptional workplace diversity and inclusiveness programs.
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Count yourself in: Complete the Employment Equity Survey
October 20, 2021
Count yourself in using the new and updated Employment Equity Survey. It’s quick, confidential and one way you can help build a more inclusive UBC.
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Statement on the Missing Children of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools
July 16, 2021
We are heartbroken to learn of the confirmation of further burial sites of children at former residential schools. These discoveries are horrifying. UBC stands with First Nations seeking the truth about the missing children. For impacted UBC community members, support services are available.
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IBPOC Connections: Building Community, Increasing Representation at UBC
July 16, 2021
“It’s the first time in my five to ten years at UBC that I’ve walked into a room where other people look like me. It’s the first time as a racialized person that I’m not being asked for something,” attendees of the IBPOC Connections inaugural luncheon told Dr. Maryam Nabavi…
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Anti-racism Website, Fund Launched
July 16, 2021
New anti-racism website provides an overview of and accountability for UBC’s anti-racism efforts and connects the community with resources and updates, including new anti-racism funding available for student, faculty, and staff initiatives.
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Activating Inclusion Toolkit
July 16, 2021
The Activating Inclusion Toolkit is designed to support units across UBC in incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion into their strategic planning, priority initiatives, and systems and structures more broadly.
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Listen, Change, Do more
June 11, 2020
Recent protests and resistance in response to the murder-by-police of George Floyd, of Regis Korchinsky-Paquet, of Breonna Taylor, of Tony McDade, of Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others, have forced the broad acknowledgement of historic and currently entrenched anti-Black racism. Universities reflect, produce, and reinforce the same anti-Blackness, and the structures, logics, and cultures uphold whiteness. […]
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UBC Recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2020
March 25, 2020
UBC’s exceptional workplace diversity and inclusiveness programs have, once again, gained the institution recognition as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2020.
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Equity & Inclusion Office Response to COVID-19
March 20, 2020
UBC’s Equity & Inclusion Office response to COVID-19 and commitment to delivery of services
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International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 20, 2020
Saturday 21 March is UN International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a timely reminder as xenophobia increases in Western nations. How will you engage?
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