TRUFA Equity Committee Good Practices Project

Territorial Acknowledgement

Thompson Rivers University campuses are on the traditional lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops campus) and the T’exelc (Williams Lake campus) within Secwépemc’ulucw, the traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc. The region TRU serves also extends into the territories of the St’át’imc, Nlaka’pamux, Tŝilhqot’in, Nuxalk, and Dakelh, and Métis communities within these territories.

Welcome!

Weyt-kp, hello, and welcome to the Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association (TRUFA) Equity Committee Good Equity Practices Project.I am Jenna Woodrow, a Philosopher from the department of Philosophy, History, and Politics, and current Chair of the TRUFA Equity Committee. I am here to tell you a little bit about the Good Practices Project.This project is, really, an end goal: That each discipline at TRU–from biology to philosophy to adventure studies to trades—has a set of Good Equity Practices. Good practices commitments help faculty members establish common understandings and set Equity priorities for their disciplines, which help us advance the goals making TRU increasingly equitable, inclusive and diverse.To help move this end goal forward, we have started this Website which lists each Faculty, and each discipline in each faculty. As part of the project, we invite departments and disciplines within each Faculty to post their Good Practices Documents to this website.

For some disciplines, this might be quite straightforward. There might be an up-to-date discipline-specific set of practices that you can simply adopt. However, we imagine that this will not always be the case. Not every discipline will have a disciplinary set of practices that they are happy to adopt. Moreover, there is significant variation between the equity, diversity, and inclusion priorities of different disciplines, so no single set of good practices will likely be apt to the different disciplinary contexts.

For some disciplines, the Good Practices project will require substantive effort, and we know how busy everyone is. To help, the TRUFA Equity Committee has provided a Sample which we have adapted to the TRU Context from the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Good Practices Document. We offer this as SAMPLE to you to adapt to your disciplinary circumstances and adopt if you wish. The TRUFA Good Equity Practices Sample is intended as a starting point, and expected to change in response to changing knowledge and circumstances. A really important resource that we hope TRU faculty members will help flesh out on their discipline-centric Good Equity Practices documents are the links to resources at the end of the document. For example, the link to Equitable philosophy syllabi is particularly helpful.

We will be having a series of Faculty-by-Faculty Good Practices Project presentations and we will ask for volunteers among TRU Faculty to begin adopting, adapting, or developing their own Good Equity Practices document.

Kukwstsétsemc (Thank You) and I look forward to working with you on the Good Practices Project.