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Strategic Planning
Principle I: An Inclusive and Respectful Community
A UBC Sauder community with EDI knowledge, skills, and practices and the organizational capacity to enhance a culture of inclusion, belonging, and collaboration.
1. A Community That Embraces EDI
Strategic Planning
The UBC Sauder EDI Committee has articulated a set of principles and goals to guide the EDI work of the School. The EDI Committee and the UBC Sauder Dean’s Office have also worked together to create an EDI strategic planning document that outlines specific strategic actions we are taking, consistent with our articulated goals and principles. This report largely reflects the actions and tracking of this strategic planning. The Senior Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion has been working with unit heads and various stakeholders throughout UBC Sauder to set our strategic plan in place. As part of this strategic planning process, the UBC Sauder EDI Committee worked with a leading EDI consultancy group, Bakau Consulting, to conduct focus group sessions with students, staff, faculty, and alumni. These sessions focused on gathering feedback from our UBC Sauder communities about their experiences and recommendations related to enhancing EDI at UBC Sauder. Based on what we heard from our community members we have prioritized these five EDI goals, which reflect the themes throughout this report.
Strategic Focus
Create more ways to listen and get feedback from our UBC Sauder Communities
Communicate better to our UBC Sauder communities on values, priorities, and initiatives
Improve the process around complaints or concerns
Better integrate EDI into coursework and programs; more resources and training
Encourage more “grassroots” participation and ways to get involved from our UBC Sauder Communities Examples of Ways We are Responding
Working Group (ongoing) to collect and analyze community feedback • Feedback survey development and dissemination to students, staff, and alumni (underway) • EDI course mapping survey with faculty (underway)
• New UBC Sauder EDI webpage (ongoing) • UBC Sauder EDI Annual Report (annually, ongoing) • Establishment of the EDI Committee Communications
Working Group
• Communications Working Group is developing a resource on the complaint process (ongoing)
• Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) Grant:
Course mapping and EDI resources (underway) • Establishment of the EDI Committee Inclusive Pedagogy
Working Group (underway) • Establishment of the EDI Committee Training Working
Group • Several UBC Sauder-wide events and training sessions related to EDI
• Creation of the UBC Sauder EDI Action Fund • Creation of the UBC Sauder EDI Research Catalyst Grant • Information on how to get involved is now better showcased on the UBC Sauder EDI webpage • Establishment of the Equity and Inclusion Committee of the Commerce Undergraduate Society (CUS)
