Other Initiatives and Activities by UBC Sauder Units

Undergraduate Office (UGO)

In the spring of 2021, the UGO team developed an EDI action plan to identify specific actions and steps to weave EDI into their orientation programming. The goals of these actions were to reinforce UBC Sauder’s positive culture of collaboration, respect, and inclusion, to be inclusive and welcoming in our orientations and other programs, and to increase comfort, knowledge, and competencies in EDI.

Examples of some specific actions are:

• The UGO held the annual UBC Sauder Unlimited Student

Leadership Conference for approximately 100 student leaders from the CUS. The opening ceremonies included an

“Introduction to EDI” workshop facilitated by Bakau

Consulting, covering topics of intersectionality, privilege, and unconscious bias. • To help strengthen a culture of EDI, the School’s culture of inclusion and commitment to EDI was communicated with greater prominence on the website, in orientation speeches, and orientation videos. • In order to reinforce our culture of EDI and to enhance understanding of these important EDI topics, student orientation leaders took part in Community Building

Education training that covered Indigenous learning, identity exploration, active bystander training, and microaggressions. • Events are programmed to ensure event speakers are representative of our diverse student body and identities.

Robert H. Lee (RHL) Graduate School

In order to reinforce our culture of EDI and to develop initial comfort and understanding of core EDI concepts, all RHL students completed an online module (created specifically by the RHL Graduate School for RHL students) on EDI as part of their pre-program onboarding. It teaches students EDI concepts and terminology, and includes reflection questions to help them better understand the material and connect it to their own experiences. To further enhance EDI competencies and to continue to weave EDI throughout the student experience, several additional sessions were conducted including: • Students from the MMDD, MM, MBAN, PMBA, and FTMBA programs all received additional EDI training as part of each program’s opening. This past year these sessions were led by

Bakau Consulting and Carol Liao, UBC Allard School of Law

Associate Professor/UBC Sauder Distinguished Scholar, and

Shona McGlashan, Vice-President, Governance, Vancity. • Toni Schmader led an interactive EDI workshop for students in PMBA Residency 1. Professor Schmader shared some of her current research (testing the efficacy of inclusive culture training to foster greater everyday allyship for women in science, engineering, and technology industries), and asked students to reflect on their own work/educational experiences. Guided discussion in breakout rooms (about implicit bias, cultural defaults, and other topics) helped to create space for students to share if they wished to. • A follow-up workshop was given to the Master of

Management Dual Degree class of 2022. This workshop focused on power and privilege and was led by EDI Facilitator and Indigenous Relations Specialist and UBC Sauder Alum,

Soundous Ettayebi.

Hari B. Varshney Business Career Centre (BCC)

The Hari B. Varshney Business Career Centre has supported a number of key initiatives related to EDI themes. Some examples include: • Refreshed career toolkits to enhance gender inclusion/ cultural-specific resources, and enhance students’ knowledge of pronoun usage. • Continued to provide support for organizing activities of student-led UBC Sauder clubs, including clubs that are specifically dedicated to support historically marginalized groups (e.g., Women in Business club).

3. Continued to highlight the resource that the BCC helped co-develop with the UBC Centre for Student Involvement &

Careers, which provides career navigation support for historically marginalized students. https://students.ubc.ca/ career/career-resources/career-resources-indigenous-colourdisabilities-lgbtq2sia 4. Continued to offer negotiation workshops across all graduate programs, with specific programming content embedded to help reduce the gender pay gap and empower all students with the skills they need to successfully negotiate. 5. Continued EDI training and education for BCC staff. For example, Efe Fruci, Career and Confidence Coach led a session to empower coaching staff to show up as their true selves to inspire a greater culture of authenticity. 6. Initiated an employer project to provide resources and support employers recruiting IBPOC students. Project goals included reviewing best practices of business schools in

Canada, benchmarking the BCC’s current recruiting services, and proposing recommendations for recruiting IBPOC UBC

Sauder students. David Lam Library and Canaccord Learning Commons

The David Lam Library and Canaccord Learning Commons have supported a number of key initiatives related to Indigenous and EDI themes. Some examples include: • Working as a member of the Indigenous Strategic Plan – ISP-LIST members have worked on highlighting Indigenousfocused resources and professional development opportunities via the Library Update. This involved gathering information from library unit heads on Indigenous-focused initiatives with their units and adapting the ISP toolkit into a

Qualtrics survey that reflects the library employee experience. In addition, it involved identifying core elements of key resources (Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s

Calls to Action, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of

Indigenous Peoples, and the Missing and Murdered

Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry’s Calls for Justice) and exploring ways in which to launch the adapted toolkit and engage all employees with the process. • Supporting other key projects and courses at UBC Sauder mentioned in this report, including the TLEF Grant on

Enhancing Business Education with Indigenous Knowledge, the Aboriginal Management Program, Ch’nook Indigenous

Business Education, and Indigenous Based Assignments in

Comm 390 Business Writing.