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.
Jun 18, 2021
UBC’s National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism: Where are you really from?
Actor and Creative Andrea Bang shares how she feels when she is asked, "where are you really from?"
Jun 11, 2021
UBC’s National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism: Why has anti-Asian racism resurfaced?
Sʔəyəɬəq Elder of Chinese and Musqueam Ancestry, Larry Grant of Musqueam, discusses the persistence of anti-Asian racism in Canada.
Jun 07, 2021
UBC and community resources for those distressed by the recent residential schools coverage
We were heartbroken to learn of the confirmation of the burial site of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Our thoughts are with the families, the communities, residential school survivors and all who mourn. If you need support, we recommend you reach out and get help from these UBC and community resources.
Apr 19, 2021
How do we foster cultural safety in the workplace?
Like most workplaces, UBC is an institution with hierarchies and power imbalances. While the notion of cultural safety emerged as a response to Indigenous people’s experience with health care inequalities in the 1980s, it also applies to the modern workplace.
Apr 12, 2021
