I am writing a discussion paper on the topic for the Committee on Publication Ethics. Thanks for your answer
Hello Deborah - my Australian University's Inclusion, Diversity and Equity policy (and associated resources) can be accessed here:
https://www.utas.edu.au/equity-diversity
Clearly it is important that policies like this are more than aspirational and rhetorical and actually mean something on the ground, with meaningful reflection, review and action. In this regard there are separate College committees with inclusive membership, including students and professional staff as well as representative academics who seek to progress Inclusion, Diversity and Equity practices across schools and disciplines as well as within wider institutional commitments and processes. Perhaps a conscious role for University IDE committees should be to 'unsettle' status quo practices?
We are developing policy. I am on the committee that was formed at the end of Spring semester. I am sure we will dive in and start working on it when we go back in the Fall. As a sociology instructor, I have been an advocate for DEI for quite some time. I co-created a training module for the NCCCS Student Success Center last year on Equity in the Classroom. My research taught me a lot.
In my university (Complutense University of Madrid) there is an Equality department ("Unidad de Igualdad"). Later, in each faculty, there is a local equality department and also a space called "violet point" (punto violeta), which handles complaints and reports of sexual harassment.
https://www.ucm.es/unidaddeigualdad/
https://twitter.com/puntovioletasa/status/1367843362552897539
Thanks very much, Maria, and thanks for including the sites. Best, Deborah
Thanks to you for proposing such an interesting topic. If you need more information from my university on this subject, do not hesitate to tell me. All the best
Deborah Poff Unfortunately this is a still distant reality in the university where I work, here in the Northeast of Brazil. They are important elements in the guarantee of rights and respect for diversity. However, at the university where I completed my doctorate in the South of the country, policies are discussed that can ensure a greater presence of women, blacks, indigenous peoples... both as students, as professors of the permanent staff of the Master's and Doctorate Program.
Thanks, Wellyngton.
Part of what I am interested in is regional presence of such policies (of lack of) in different countries.
Best,
Deborah
In my first semester University ( Global Campus of Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice Italy), diversity, Equality and inclusion we very much mainstreamed in all the courses with special options for further specialization. And there are MOOC cycles that treat each aspects of these, in nexus with concepts like participation, fight against climate change, movement- building, ...
In my second university ( RUN, Germany) under the NOHA programme, there specialised courses on each, treated in humanitarian settings. For ex, Disabilities and Inclusive Humanitarian Action. Gender, Minorities, and Rural Communities also have specialised courses.
Thanks, John Paul.
This is very interesting. Am I to understand that these are all credit courses?
Best regards,
Deborah
I am on the committee that was formed at the end of this semester. Because this one really interesting
Thanks, Shashi
I will share information as I move forward.
Best, Deborah
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