Article from University Affairs: U Sports to Include Trans Athletes
A recent article talking about the adoption of a new policy to allow Trans Athletes to participate in U Sports.
U Sports Adopts Policy to Include Trans Athletes
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Category Archives: Resources
Unconscious Bias: When Good Intentions Aren’t Enough
Unconscious Bias: When Good Intentions Aren’t Enough, by Sarah E. Fiarman. Educational Leadership, November 2016 | Volume 74 | Number 3.
“Deep-rooted biases hinder our best intentions. Learn how to recognize and address them.” A longer (5 pages) article that goes through a number of unconscious ways in which inequities can be perpetuated, and that challenges us all to hold each other accountable to make change.
How to do a territorial acknowledgement
“How to do a territorial acknowledgement” by Jordan Mae Cook. Folio.ca. January 2019
A short piece that offers some guidance to faculty (or anyone) who wants to do a territorial acknowledgement (in a syllabus, for instance), but doesn’t know how or where to go from there.
Is there space for Indigenous knowledge in academia?
“Is there space for Indigenous knowledge in academia?” Unreserved episode, CBC, Feb. 2018 (46 min).
A 46 min episode of the CBC show Unreserved. Feel free to comment on all of it if you like–but our focus here is especially on the first interview.
A really good resource; several short interviews addressing different aspects of this question. Especially interesting for many profs is probably the first interview with a student talking about being singled out in classes and the behaviours and practices of other students and professors
Politicising ‘Diversity’ inside the White Male Academic Powerhouse
“Politicising ‘Diversity’ inside the White Male Academic Powerhouse.” DIS/CONTENT. 2015.
A short piece that is about the Netherlands but applicable to Canada too; it thinks about how addressing the lack of diversity in academia requires looking at both representation and knowledge.
If someone wants to be called “they” and not “he” or “she,” why say no?
Robin Dembroff and Daniel Wodak, “If someone wants to be called ‘they’ and not ‘he’ or ‘she’, why say no?” The Guardian, June 2018.
Top Ten Ways to Foster an Inclusive Classroom
Jennifer McWeeny, “Top Ten Ways to Foster an Inclusive Classroom.” (John Carroll University, 2012)
A list of ways to think through behaviour and how assumptions work in the classroom; especially useful for many faculty are 2, 5, 7. Includes a short 10 min video specific to LGBTQ students
“Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Settler Privilege”
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Settler Privilege” November 08, 2018
An article that clearly refers back to Peggy McIntosh’s “white privilege” article, with another list of examples that while not specific to teaching, again highlight everyday things many people do, in and out of the classroom, that bear rethinking.
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” 1989
A well-known and oft-quoted and referred to piece in which McIntosh lists a number of examples of “white privilege,” focusing in on the idea of privilege as reflected in structures and practices around her. While not specific to teaching, many of the examples she lists are the kinds of everyday things many people do, both in the classroom and outside of it.
Diversity is an organizational strength
“People from different backgrounds have varying ways of looking at problems, what I call ‘tools.’ The sum of these tools is far more powerful in organizations with diversity than in ones where everyone has gone to the same schools, been trained in the same mold and thinks in almost identical ways.”
– Scott E. Page, Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science and Economics, University of Michigan