Our work on EDI and VPFO projects supporting UBC’s EDI journey
Check back regularly for updates on our EDI progress and to learn how we’re performing as a portfolio. We will also be posting feature stories to illustrate how EDI at UBC comes to life though our day-to-day work.
Nov 02, 2021
Are you taking care of your own mental health?
Burnout is real and can be very damaging to our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. This week's EDI article discusses how the pressures in the modern workplace are distorting our identities by often placing success at work at the expense of our mental and physical well-being.
Oct 27, 2021
What does it mean to appreciate vs. appropriate culture?
Cultural Appreciation is appreciating another culture in an effort to broaden their perspective and connect with others cross-culturally, while cultural appropriation is taking one aspect of a culture that is not their own and mimics it without consent, solely for personal interest. Learn about how cultural appropriation fuels social inequality, injustice, and racism in this EDI article.
Oct 20, 2021
What is Environmental Racism?
In this week's EDI article, learn more about environmental racism — a form of systemic racism whereby communities of colour are disproportionately burdened with health hazards through policies and practices that force them to live in proximity to sources of toxic waste such as sewage works, mines, landfills, power stations, major roads and emitters of airborne particulate matter.
Oct 12, 2021
Giving Thanks
In Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October. While Thanksgiving is also known as Columbus Day, established to recognize the Christopher Columbus’ voyage and landing in the “new world”, Indigenous People had a call to action in the 1980’s to acknowledge the losses suffered by Native Americans as a result of the historical conquest of North America by Europeans. Learn more in this EDI article.
Sep 27, 2021
