Training and Learning Opportunities to Develop EDI competencies

Inclusive Hiring Training

Our existing hiring training module was audited, revised, and provided to faculty members who were hiring this year. Topics included UBC policies and procedures related to hiring, implicit bias, and best practices on strategies for hiring inclusively.

Inclusive Teaching and Learning Food for Thought Session

This session on Inclusive Teaching and Learning was offered to UBC Sauder’s instructional staff and faculty and was led by Kate White, Senior Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Sustainability. The goal of this session was to highlight best practices and principles of inclusive pedagogy, and to have a dialogue around different ways to incorporate these principles into teaching across different business disciplines. To do so, the session showcased specific examples of inclusive teaching practices by five of our own faculty members—Harish Krishnan, Kai Li, Tamar Milne, Rebecca Paluch, and Wayne Rawcliffe.

Indigenous Cultural Awareness

Three sessions on Indigenous Cultural Awareness with Qwastånayå (Maynard) Harry have been delivered in the past year. The goal of these sessions is to increase awareness and understanding of Indigenous People and their history in the Canadian context. The sessions aim to increase knowledge on topics such as Canada’s Indian Act, the Indian Reserve System, the Indian Residential School System, as well as reconciliation and Aboriginal rights and title. To date, over 160 staff and faculty have attended these sessions.

Decolonial 101 Workshop

Members of the UBC Sauder Dean’s Office and the Ch’nook office completed a Decolonial 101 workshop, which focused on helping participants to locate themselves on the land, connect with the colonial history found there, and understand their personal relationships with that history as it shows up in their work and lives. The workshop also explored privilege, positionality, and institutional norms. The goal is to expand this workshop and offer it more broadly to additional faculty and staff moving forward.

Foundations in Diversity and Inclusion Certification

Through the Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council (DLC) in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI), all staff in HR have completed level one of this training and are working towards completion of the full certification in 2022. The purpose of this training is to provide basic knowledge around the fundamentals of EDI, implicit bias, and respect in the workplace.

UBC Sauder Engaged: Onboarding

Two sessions of UBC Sauder Engaged onboarding for new staff were conducted. The goal of the sessions is to familiarize staff with the School and its values. These sessions included specific components delivered regarding Indigenous initiatives at the School, EDI priorities and initiatives at the School, and implicit bias in organizations. Positive Space Training

Rachael Sullivan, Equity Education Strategist, from the UBC Equity and Inclusion office facilitated a Positive Space workshop specifically for UBC Sauder faculty and staff on gender inclusivity and creating positive spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. To date, 47 UBC Sauder staff and faculty have participated in a UBC Sauder Positive Space training session and others have participated in sessions offered by the UBC Equity and Inclusion Office.

EDI Events: A number of additional events have been formally hosted by UBC Sauder over the past year, which have helped to explore and spur discussions around several topics related to EDI. The goals of these events are to further enhance our culture of EDI and to increase understanding, comfort, and competencies on key EDI topics: These events include: • The Orange Shirt Story with Phyllis Webstad. • A UBC Sauder Engaged Coffee Convo session with Christie

Stephenson on EDI work in the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for

Business Ethics. • Pink Shirt Day: Challenging Bullying and Creating Belonging with Parker Johnson. • International Women’s Day: Women’s Leadership and

Catalyzing Impact with Indy Batth, Rupeela Gill, Martina

Valkovicova, and Kate White. • Applying Behavioural Insights to Cultivate Diversity and

Inclusion with Sonia Kang hosted by the Peter P. Dhillon

Centre for Business Ethics and Decision Insights for Business and Society (DIBS).