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 equitable and inclusive materials, activities, and assignments that could be used across courses. They will also collaborate with EDI and curriculum committees in our department. In their work, they will also engage with peers and members of the CTSI-based EDI network, which includes the Department of Psychology at UTSC and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. Student fellows in this network will foster shared knowledge and capacity building around equity, diversity, and inclusion related to teaching and learning in each perspective field. Through the unit-based EDI network, we plan to share the curricular resources we develop with other STEM, psychology, and other units seeking to integrate inclusive excellence into the curriculum.