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Engineering for Everyone arrives following a year of consultations

Written on January 28, 2022. Posted in News.

Engineering for Everyone, launched in December, is the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences (FEAS) new platform for improving equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). “Engineering for Everyone invites members of our community to know that time has passed for us to do the talking. Now, we actually...

President Kasim says University is ‘self-satisfied’ at AMS Assembly

Written on January 14, 2022. Posted in News.

On Dec. 2, AMS Assembly convened to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 and EDII feedback from the equity townhall meeting in November. President’s report AMS President Zaid Kasim’s provided a recap of the Senate meeting that took place on Nov. 30. “The Student Senate caucus brought forward a list of...

AMS discusses EDI framework at November Assembly

Written on November 19, 2021. Posted in News.

On Nov. 18, the AMS gathered for the November Assembly. Megan Divecha, President of Queens’ Student Alumni Association, opened Assembly with a presentation on Queen’s Connects Career Network for Students & Alumni. Created in 2014, Queen’s Connect is a LinkedIn group that allows students and alumni...

Queen’s medical students talk EDII research

Written on November 19, 2021. Posted in News.

Two Queen’s medical students are researching equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigeneity (EDII) in medical school educational curricula in a student research initiative funded by the Faculty of Health Sciences. Researchers Simran Sandhu and Ishita Aggarwal, both Med ’23, believe EDII integration...

University to launch consultation on Indigenous identity

Written on November 5, 2021. Posted in News.

On Nov. 2, Queen’s announced it will be launching consultations with Indigenous community members to “ensure hiring and other internal policies and procedures are more clear, equitable, and reflect key aspects of verification of Indigeneity.” Led by the Office of Indigenous Initiatives (OII), this...

A year since @ErasedbyFEAS

Written on September 17, 2021. Posted in News.

Queen’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (FEAS) has renewed its commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) values for the 2021-22 school year. The Instagram account “@ErasedbyFEAS” was one of many social media accounts created to provide a safe space for Black people, Indigenous...

EDII identified as most pressing issue in Queen’s 2020 Orientation Week

Written on March 5, 2021. Posted in News.

The Senate Orientation Activities Review Board (SOARB) has released its annual report on Orientation Week 2020—with strong recommendations for orientation groups to focus on Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Indigeneity (EDII). The SOARB report is completed annually by a committee that works with...

How the Smith Transparency Project is inspiring change through data

Written on February 5, 2021. Posted in Features.

In the wake of Instagram account ‘Stolen by Smith’, there was harsh criticism from those who questioned the credibility of the anecdotal evidence the account relied on. Commerce students were missing empirical evidence to support the patterns demonstrated by the page when trying to understand the...

Tag: EDII

Engineering for Everyone arrives following a year of consultations

President Kasim says University is ‘self-satisfied’ at AMS Assembly

AMS discusses EDI framework at November Assembly

Queen’s medical students talk EDII research

University to launch consultation on Indigenous identity

A year since @ErasedbyFEAS

EDII identified as most pressing issue in Queen’s 2020 Orientation Week

How the Smith Transparency Project is inspiring change through data

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