Core Area
People and Place
Strategic Area
Advancement of decolonization, EDI, and anti-racism throughout the Faculty
Goal Status
In Progress
Objectives
- Office of Experiential Education to pilot and evaluate a Regional Practicum Model whereby students will complete a series of their pharmacy practicum experiences within a selected rural/remote community/region (i.e., PHRM 371, 471, 472 and 473) beginning in S2024.
- In collaboration with the Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Manager, the Associate Dean Students portfolio will focus on recruitment of and build connections with students from under-represented and under-served groups/communities. A starting point will be relationship-building with guidance counsellors and applicants from schools in specific regions (2024).
- Continue prospective student engagement efforts to build connections with prospective students via a series of recruitment events targeted at both high school and post-secondary students (2024).
- Increase support for staff hiring committees to enhance EDI efforts (2023).
- Implement further 4 career fair visits to institutions with targeted approaches for recruitment for Indigenous and Black students (2024).
Achieved Goals
- SPIIF fund approved project to support recruitment pathways for Black and Indigenous students in the Graduate program (May 2023). Initiated visits to graduate career fairs at schools nationwide with targeted approach to Black and Indigenous student groups in addition to the general student population (summer 2023).
- SPIIF fund approved project to support rural cohort model for experiential training in the Entry-to-Practice PharmD program (May 2023).
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($55,889 over 2 years) awarded to Swidrovich J (UofT), Kellar J (UofT), Jarvis-Selinger S (UBC) for: “Exploring the Experience of Senior Indigenous and Black Pharmacy Students' Professional Identity Formation: A Dual Canadian University Site Approach.” The team includes Lim T (UBC/UofT).
- As per approval of BC Human Rights’ Commissioner, launched recruitment to exclusively hire self-identified people with disabilities, Indigenous people, racialized people, women, and people with minoritized sexual orientations or gender identities for 2x tenure-track positions in Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology (July 2023).
- Provided support to faculty hiring committees in partnership with Equity Inclusion Office (EIO) (ongoing).
- Worked with EIO to obtain aggregate data about diversity of faculty recruitment applicant pools (ongoing).
- Extended requirement to take Hiring Equity course, beyond search committees, to all hiring managers (2023).
- EIO launched Employment Equity Advisor (EEA) pilot training of faculty members (Oct 2023).
- Enhanced content on graduate programs website to better support students applying to the program with respect to admissions, awards, scholarships, professional development opportunities and support services, in particular information for equity-seeking students (2024).