Advancing equity action
The Equity Action Plan’s goals provide UVic with strategic direction to advance equity, diversity and inclusion, and to create the conditions in which everyone feels a sense of belonging: as connected and respected parts of the university community.
Credit: Scenes Of Knowledge by Claire Jorgensen
About
After months of community engagement in 2022, five overarching goals emerged as the focus of the Equity Action Plan (EAP). Drawing on the experiences, advice and recommendations from students, staff, faculty and other UVic community members, each goal includes a list of identified barriers and measurable actions to further that goal and address those barriers. Learn more about how to read this plan.
The EAP is an integral part of UVic’s institutional planning. We acknowledge that it is being published while other documents are in development: a new Strategic Plan, which will create a new vision for the university, and a new Indigenous Plan, which will further articulate our Indigenization and decolonization goals.
Within this dynamic environment, we are presenting the EAP and are prepared to make adjustments as these other plans come to life.
Equity-centred culture
Create an inclusive campus community that values diversity and challenges dominant systems of power, including colonization, white supremacy, historical trauma and patriarchal norms, through research, teaching, curriculum, policy and practice.
Relationality and belonging
Transform university structures and practices to show value for diverse lived experiences and ways of knowing to build relationships across and beyond UVic.
Recruitment and retention
Attract, advance, and retain students, staff, faculty, librarians and senior leadership from systemically and historically marginalized communities.
Access and support
Create equitable support structures that address the diverse access needs of the campus community.
Institutional accountability
Conduct ongoing, transparent evaluations of this action plan with continued opportunities for meaningful engagement and feedback with/from the community.
Territory acknowledgement
We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
We invite you to learn about the lands on which UVic stands and on which you are situated. One way to do this is to watch UVic’s territorial acknowledgment video.