Skip to Content

Providing Chemical Analyses for Community Partners
With the support of the LEAF Seed Grant, we built a partnership with the Toronto Zoo’s Nutrition Science team by co-creating community-engaged learning and research opportunities within and beyond a […]
EPIC Forestry – Experiential Learning in Forest Conservation
EPIC Forestry was a pilot program to develop and deliver a new undergraduate field course (FOR301: Field Methods in Forest Conservation) that blends knowledge of conservation science with hands-on experiential […]
Language is Material: Experiential Learning in Book Making and Creative Writing
Toronto’s literary and cultural scene is full of independent organizations making creative work that reflects the diversity and energy of our city. From local publishing houses such as Coach House […]
Canada Constructed: Architecture, Landscape, History
The purpose of the initiative was to transform teaching and learning about the Canadian built environment through a cluster of new courses at various curricular levels in the Department of […]
Reimagining computer science education through digital storytelling with tangible objects
Instructors in computer science (CS) often adopt mathematical abstractions and entities when explaining concepts. As the academic preparation of learners has become more diverse, the low retention rate of students […]
Design Research Internship Project (DRIP)
The Design Research Internship Project (DRIP) is a curricular initiative that is designed to provide undergraduate students with a critical educational experience outside the classroom/studio while continuing to call on […]
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Alignment and Pedagogical Collaboration Through Communities of Practice and Learning
Our project aimed to bring the three disciplines of our department – Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics closer together in terms of curriculum and pedagogy. By comparing detailed curriculum maps […]
Digital Tools for Enhanced Music Pedagogy: Creating, Developing, and Implementing Online Learning Modules for Music & Culture
This project supported the creation, development, and implementation of digital learning modules for the A-level course “Foundations in Musicianship,” which is a prerequisite to virtually all courses in the UTSC […]
Revamping a first-year writing course curriculum (English A02) – The Peer Support Model as a path to student academic success, resilience, and well-being
This two-year LEAF project entails a robust, embedded mental health, accessibility, community building, and academic peer support system in each of the 13/15 sections of English A02—a multi-sectional, first-year, English […]
Scaffolding Computation and Data Science Throughout the Chemistry Curriculum
Over a three-year period, we developed and integrated computing and data science (CDS) materials into five chemistry courses: a large-enrollment first-year life science course (CHM135H1); a first-year course for physical […]
Undergraduate Tutoring – Foundational Computer Science and Statistics
Victoria College, in partnership with the Faculty of Arts & Science, is expanding its peer-led Undergraduate Tutoring program to support core first-year Computer Science and second-year Statistical Sciences courses. Building […]
Retuning! A Refreshed Learning Strategy Support Program for First-Year Faculty of Music Students
The Faculty of Music is enhancing its first-year learning strategy supports by building on the “Tuning Up!” pilot launched in 2025–26 academic year. Based on early pilot results showing improved […]
First Year Academic Peer Mentorship Program
The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering is launching a peer mentorship program to support first-year students who may be experiencing academic difficulty following early-term assessments. Beginning mid-way through the […]
Proactive, Holistic Advising for Lower Admission Average Year One Students
UTM is piloting an advising model for incoming first-year students whose high school admission average falls at the lower end of the admissible range: an identified group typically linked to […]
Learning Strategy Mentorship Project for Students Returning from Suspension
The Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre (RGASC) at UTM is enhancing support for students returning from suspension by adding learning strategy mentorship to support academic re-entry and progression. The project […]
Connected from Day One: An International Peer Support Pilot for Year 1 Students
The Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design is piloting a peer support initiative for first-year international students to help them find connections and develop help-seeking skills at the start […]
Quantitative Skills using R in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quantitative skills (statistics, mathematics, and computing) are essential parts of an academic and professional portfolio across ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB). Quantitative Reasoning is also identified as one of five […]
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 writing course that serves as a prerequisite for further […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 (two undergraduate PharmD students and one graduate student) have been hired to contribute to EDI and Indigenous Engagement teaching and […]
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 […]
Indigenous Research Ethics Webinars
This series of films and related curricular resources will welcome audiences to develop a deeper understanding of ethical engagement with Indigenous peoples and communities. Using exemplars and case studies drawn […]
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
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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  
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]