Adrienne S. Chan, PhD University of the Fraser Valley Canada

To examine social justice within Canadian universities (experiences, practices, policies, contexts, institutional culture). This includes a consideration of diversity and equity.

 Research conducted over a three year period  Background research – documentary review : 20 universities  Field research – three universities, interviews

 Fairness and equity  Access, resources, rights, and treatment for marginalized individuals, and groups of people who do not share equal power in society.  (Constantine, Hage, Kindaichi, & Bryant, 2007)

 Research intensive and teaching intensive

Human Rights & Harassment Policy Equity and diversity policy Aboriginal Access Policy and Services; International Education Disability issues and services Relationship to the community

 University of British Columbia  McMaster University  St. Francis Xavier University

MARCH 2008 International Women’s Day ~~~Guest Speaker ~~~ Kim Pate, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies will speak on Women Prisoners in Canada: the Criminalization and Institutionalization of Women on the Margins. This is sponsored by StFX Human Rights & Equity Office, StFX Women's Studies and the Antigonish Women's Resource Centre.

 “ it’s a discrimination and harassment policy. … the word equity was a bit of a trigger word. So we’ll all talk in terms of equity but we’re really talking in broader terms.”  Human rights and harassment prevention  Equity and diversity  Disability issues

 Surviving in the academy requires compliance to the “community rules, language and culture”… This community is uni-cultural; it is the uni-versity,”

 “…working with an equity advisory committee I began to draft a policy, I looked at policies across the country and took what I thought were best practices from other universities because there really was no equity policy regarding that. …there was a lot of resistance…  …faculty through various departments expressed concerns around issues like employment equity”

 Some human rights harassment policy tends to focus on sexual harassment only.  Policy discourses evokes a sense of containment and gatekeeping (e.g. hiring): there is a “reification of qualities and characteristics” that make a ‘good’ faculty member

The purpose of policies: Diversity, equity, human rights, harassment Addressing campus “culture”: inclusion Training and education about policy – related to “live” processes Individual and collective agency; advisory groups to advocate for policy change and policy action Re-examination of what it means to say we are committed to Social Justice, Equity, and Diversity.

 Adrienne S. Chan  University of the Fraser Valley  Canada 