Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA) Initiatives
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- Failure Learning in Progress
The Failure: Learning in Progress (FLIP) project examines pedagogical struggle and failure using an equity-focused approach. With students-as-partners, the FLIP team has developed discipline agnostic teaching and learning resources and […]
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- The Peer Support Model as a Path to Student Academic Success, Resilience, and Well-Being
This two-year LEAF-funded initiative integrates robust mental health, accessibility, community-building, and academic peer support directly into English A02—a large, multi-section, first-year writing course that serves as a prerequisite for further […]
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- Promoting Engagement with Anti-Racist University Pedagogy
The Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP) at UTM, with its skilled staff and faculty expertise, is leading an initiative to create programming and resources supporting anti-racist curricular […]
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- UTSC Campus Curriculum Review Resource Hub
The University of Toronto Scarborough’s the UTSC Curriculum Resource Hub is an inclusive hub developed in response to curriculum review recommendations and in partnership with the UTSC Campus Curriculum Review […]
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- Weaving EDIIA into Basic Medical Science Research and Program Curricula
This multi-pronged project integrates Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity and Accessibility (EDIIA) principles across undergraduate health science education programs within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, enhancing diversity, equity and cultural competence. […]
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- Students-as-Partners Approach in Development of Inclusive and Equitable Resources
We used a students-as-partners approach to enrich and strengthen EDI in the Department of Biology curriculum at UTM. Student fellows built an initial set of equitable and inclusive activities and […]
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- The Social Justice Classroom: Dismantling Racism and Destabilizing Power Structures in Curriculum with Students as Partners
This project drives social justice change in curriculum design by leveraging students as partners to co-create anti-racist curriculum while dismantling structural inequities and destabilizing power structures in the classroom. The […]
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- Embedding Inclusive Excellence Strategies and Resources for a Video Assignment in a Large First-Year Life Science Breadth Course
The context for this project is a large 500-student first year science breadth course that focuses on drug discovery from science in the laboratory to human testing in clinical trials. […]
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- Fostering Science Identity for STEM Students: Developing Curricular Resources for First-Year STEM Courses to Promote Contributions of Underrepresented Scientists
This project aimed to create an on-line, open-access database of PowerPoint slides featuring STEM scientists from underrepresented groups whose work connects directly to topics in the curriculum of first-year STEM […]
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- Using Generative AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation for Accessibility Services Note Taking Requests
Students requesting note taking as part of their accessibility accommodations experience many barriers in being able to fulfill their needs. Such barriers include (but not limited to): no available note […]
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- Understanding Psychology in Context: Taking a Students-as-Partners Approach to Support the Development of a New Breadth Course in Psychology
This project took a ‘students-as-partners’ approach to support the development of a newsecond-year breadth course titled “Psychology in Context” (PSYB80), which was taught for thefirst time in Winter 2025. Guided […]
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- Integrating EDI Principles into the Arts & Science Co-op Curriculum
The Arts & Science Co-op program is committed to integrating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) principles into every aspect of our curriculum. Our goal is to make EDI central to […]
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- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office (EDIO) Curricula Enhancement Initiative
Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) aims to nurture academic excellence by understanding and responding to the root causes of inequity and exclusion. The Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office’s […]
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- Master of Public Health – Black Health Program Development
Evidence suggests that experiences of anti-Black racism in the healthcare system led to higher rates of chronic health outcomes, including increased morbidity and mortality among Black community members. Dalla Lana […]
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- Scaffolding an EDI Explicit Curricula across Orientation, Foundation and Advanced Years
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW) aims to ensure the MSW curriculum represents the lived experiences and learning goals of our diverse student group while preparing students with the EDI […]
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- Decolonizing Curriculum Faculty Fellows Program
The Decolonizing Curriculum Faculty Fellows Program, launched in collaboration with the Faculty of Information and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, is a key initiative aimed at empowering faculty to […]
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- Enhance Faculty Capacity to Continuously Seek and Include Multiple Divergent Voices in Curricular Content and Pedagogical Practices
Anticolonial Curriculum and Pedagogy Project Aspirations Noting that the Daniels Faculty already has resources in place to advance anti-colonial, Indigenous-centred and anti-racist pedagogical practices through their more traditional course delivery […]
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- Foundations of Equity in Music Studies: A Multimodal Pedagogical Resource
This Faculty of Music project responds to the need for a comprehensive and accessible resource on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in music, building on existing text-based Quercus modules. This […]
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- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Law Resource Centre
In response to the demand for centralized resources on anti-racism, allyship and inclusive teaching practices, the EDI Law Resource Centre project within the Faculty of Law seeks to establish a […]
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- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Speakers Series
Amidst the evolving discourse on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within the Faculty of Law, the EDI Speakers Series addresses the critical need for targeted training sessions, engaging legal experts […]