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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 […]

  • Canada Constructed: Architecture, Landscape, History

    Canada Constructed aimed to transform how the Canadian built environment is taught and studied through a cluster of newly developed courses in the Department of Art History. Designed to be […]

  • 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 course that serves as a prerequisite for further English […]

  • Collaborating Across Biology Programs to Enhance Communication Skills

    This project aimed to strengthen undergraduate students’ science literacy, communication, and critical thinking skills through a coordinated and scaffolded series of assignments across large first- and second-year life sciences courses (BIO120, […]

  • Animated Interactive Storylines for Global Health

    The Animated Interactive Storylines for Global Health project leverages digital storytelling to engage undergraduate students with key concepts in global health through immersive, web-based learning modules. The project centres on […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • Beyond Reconciliation in English Language Arts: Indigenous Literatures Lab

    Beyond Reconciliation in English Language Arts responds to the critical need for teacher preparedness to support ethical engagement with Indigenous literatures in secondary level English Language Arts (ELA) courses, comprised […]

  • New Respect Cultural Safety Program Revisions 

    The New Respect Indigenous Cultural Safety (CS) Program aims to deliver effective online, Indigenous-led cultural safety training to health service professionals including nurses, physicians and social service providers, as well […]

  • Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigenous Engagement Student Fellows

    Three student fellows at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy will be hired (two undergraduate PharmD students and one graduate student) who will contribute to EDI and Indigenous Engagement teaching […]

  • Students-as-Partners Approach in Development of Inclusive and Equitable Resources

    We are using a students-as-partners approach to enriching and strengthening EDI in the Department of Biology curriculum at UTM. Student fellows will gather, select, and build an initial set of […]

  • Indigenous Research Ethics Webinars

    Using exemplars and case studies drawn from the Arts & Science Indigenous research community, this series of four webinars will welcome audiences to develop a deeper understanding of ethical engagement […]

  • 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 […]

  • Embedding Inclusive Excellence Strategies and Resources for a Video Assignment in a Large First-Year Life Science Breadth Course

    In a large 500-student first year science breadth course, students currently create a short video as one of the assessments. Assignment instructions are currently in written form. We will support […]

  • Fostering Science Identity for STEM Students: Developing Curricular Resources for First-Year STEM Courses to Promote Contributions of Underrepresented Scientists

    With the assistance of work-study students, preferably themselves from underrepresented groups and who have just completed the core STEM courses of biology, calculus, chemistry and physics, we will compile a […]

  • 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 […]

  • Understanding Psychology in Context: Taking a Students-as-Partners Approach to Support the Development of a New Breadth Course in Psychology

    This project will take a ‘students-as-partners’ approach to support the development of a new second-year breadth course titled “Psychology in Context”. Guided by principles of equity, inclusion, and diverse ways […]

  • Writing for University and Beyond Undergraduate Editorial Experience

    This project transformed a student journal volunteer experience into an internship curriculum for student volunteers. The journal, Writing for University and Beyond, is closely associated with UTM’s first-year writing course, ISP100. […]

  • First Assessment, First Feedback

    A&S is aiming to provide enhanced academic skill-building and peer support opportunities for students in identified first-year courses with high DFW rates. Through First Assessment, First Feedback (FAFF), students will […]

  • Enrolment Research Project

    UTM is facilitating a comprehensive review of available data, and collecting additional information via focus groups, related to the decisions of applicants/students who a) accepted an offer to UTM but […]

  • Get Finished Scholarship Program Project

    We would like to further develop the Get Finished (GF) Scholarship Program by focusing on three current areas of the incentivized program for students who are working towards the “finish […]

  • Implementing Psychologically Attuned Communications

    UTM is implementing a variation of the ‘Ideal PAC Development Process’ (Fricker, 2024) to redevelop communications we sent to students, related to academic standing and POSt-refusal. Specifically, drafts of “attuned” […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Decolonizing Curriculum Faculty Fellows Program  

    In response to the evolving landscape of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) discussions, the Faculty of Information (FoI) has established dedicated offices for EDI and teaching and learning over the […]

  • Enhance Faculty Capacity to Continuously Seek and Include Multiple Divergent Voices in Curricular Content and Pedagogical Practices  

    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 methods. However, design studios, laboratories and fieldwork still […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

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