UVic community action archive
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A year of Better Data
November 18, 2024
Submitted on behalf of Equity and Human Rights.The Better Data Questionnaire has now been available for a year. Over 10,000 students and 5,000 employees have completed their questionnaires to date....
New EDI program at UVic
March 6, 2024
Submitted on behalf of Continuing Studies. The Division of Continuing Studies launched the Micro-certificate in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) program in September 2023. This new program is...
Map teaches W̱SÁNEĆ place names
February 26, 2024
Submitted by Kim Shortreed. As part of Kim Shortreed’s PhD project “Contracolonial Practices in Salish Sean Namescapes,” he collaboratively built the Untitled...
Creating a model to advance equity priorities
February 2, 2024
Submitted on behalf of HR Equity Pollinators Group. In response to the many UVic plans that have been released over the past two years, Human Resources held a collaborative session to map out a...
EAP implementation case study: Financial Services
January 23, 2024
Submitted on behalf of Financial Services. During the spring and summer of 2023, Financial Services (FINS) volunteered as one of the first groups to try out the new Equity Action Plan (EAP)...
New resources for career development
August 4, 2023
Submitted on behalf of Co-operative Education Program and Career Services.This past year, UVic Co-op’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Team developed and released a new suite of...
Artificial intelligence helps students find work
July 19, 2023
Submitted on behalf of Co-operative Education Program and Career Services.Currently, UVic Co-op and Career Services is piloting the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to help students find...
Increasing all-gender washrooms on campus
June 16, 2023
Submitted on behalf of the Office of the Vice-President Finance and Operations and Equity and Human Rights. A cross-campus wide project to increase all-gender washrooms is...
New self-ID questionnaire in development
May 1, 2023
Submitted on behalf of Equity and Human Rights. Work on the Better Data Project, which seeks to improve the identity data gathered at the University of Victoria, continues to progress. Over the...
Pilot of EAP implementation tools
April 27, 2023
Submitted on behalf of Equity and Human Rights. This April, seven units across the University of Victoria signed up to participate in a pilot of the Equity Action Plan (EAP) Implementation...
Custodial Services expands applicant pool
April 5, 2023
Submitted on behalf of Custodial Services, Facilitaties Management. Recently, as part of a greater strategy to improve applicant numbers in a challenging labour market, Custodial Services expanded...
Updated faculty equity course
February 16, 2023
Submitted on behalf of Equity and Human Rights and the Vice-President Academic and Provost’s Office. September 2022 marked the first full year of offering "Increasing...
Art exhibition: Gule Wamkulu
February 7, 2023
Submitted on behalf of School of Indigenous Governance. Until April 8th, Gule Wamkulu: Dancing Indigenous Governance will be open to the public at the University of Victoria Legacy Art...
Record-breaking 5 Days of Action
January 27, 2023
Submitted on behalf of Equity and Human Rights. This past November, the week-long 5 Days of Action saw a record-breaking number of registrants and number of events.
Increasing transparency in graduate student funding
November 18, 2022
Submitted by Patrick Duke. Earlier this year, Patrick Duke asked his fellow School of Earth and Ocean Sciences students to anonymously disclose details about their graduate funding. He...
Fall action lab update
November 9, 2022
Submitted on behalf of Equity and Human Rights. In April, Equity and Human Rights staff working to develop UVic’s new Equity Action Plan invited a group of staff, faculty, and students to...
Calling EDI researchers!
November 7, 2022
Submitted on behalf of the Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation. Application deadlines have just been announced for this year’s Aspiration Postdoctoral Fellowship...
Learning and action in UVic gallery
October 28, 2022
Submitted on behalf of Legacy Art Galleries. In early 2021, UVic Legacy Art Galleries began holding regular check-in meetings as a way for staff to learn about and address issues relating...
Student projects become new Antiracist resource website
October 20, 2022
Submitted by Georgia Sitara. A new website, Antiracist History and Theory, featuring the work of UVic students was launched earlier this fall with the goal of making some of the most important...
Project seeks to collect better diversity data on campus
October 18, 2022
Submitted on behalf of Equity and Human Rights. Launched this September, the Better Data Project aims to improve the collection of disaggregated demographic data at UVic. By setting up ethical data...