The Equity Officer is available to students, staff, and faculty. The fundamental objective of the Equity Office is to prevent discrimination, sexual harassment, and personal harassment from occurring.
The Equity Officer's Roles and Responsibilities are:
Take reasonable steps to protect the health, safety, and security of any member of the University community in relation to the Harassment & Discrimination Policy.
Receive, investigate, and resolve complaints by informal resolution, mediation, or formal complaint.
Provide and promote programs that raise campus awareness of the nature of, and problems associated with, discrimination, sexual harassment, and personal harassment and educate those in positions of responsibility in the objectives and implementation of the policy.
50904猪八戒易记网's Policy Against Harassment & Discrimination
The purpose of the is to provide and maintain a learning and work environment free from discrimination, sexual harassment, and personal harassment. These behaviours are demeaning and degrading.
All members of the University community have the right to learn and work in an environment free from discrimination, sexual harassment, and personal harassment.
The University and all members of the University community share responsibility for ensuring that the work and learning environment of Acadia is free from discrimination, sexual harassment, and personal harassment.
"The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture." 鈥� Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
As a settler, I cannot write this article without acknowledging the fact that I am writing this from a place of privilege. I am privileged to need to learn about the history of residential schools and truth and reconciliation rather than having experienced it myself or having had a family member experience any of it. If you are reading this as someone who is not Indigenous or First Nations, then so are you.
Right To Be has multiple upcoming training webinars 鈥� but why should you take them?
Having a community full of people means we have a responsibility to take care of each other and online training like bystander intervention and conflict resolution webinars are great opportunities for us to learn and grow together. Harassment and discrimination don鈥檛 need to be a part of our university experience, we CAN do something about it and these webinars are easy ways for us to address it.
On Monday June 19th the Acadia Campus community acquired a new Rainbow Pride Bench!
Polly Leonard, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer, and Allison Smith, Sexualized Violence Response and Education Coordinator drove down to New Minas to the Flower Cart Opportunities and spoke with Tammy Provencal, an Acadia alum, who runs the Rainbow Pride bench program.
Happy belated Lunar New Year! This year, the New Year鈥檚 Festival began on January 21st, and it ended on February 5th. Communities across China are usually packed with people, with countless numbers of them setting off fireworks this time of year, while herds of people who reside and work in cities return to their hometowns to reunite with their families.
The day is focused on acts of service, a day on and not a day off. Dr. King was a Baptist minister and a leader of the modern American Civil Rights Movement (The King Centre). Often quoted and misquoted on this day and throughout the year, it is important to remember not to take his words lightly or out of context.
Today on Martin Luther King Day, we celebrate and honour Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The theme for this year according to the King Centre in Atlanta is 鈥淐ultivating a Beloved Community Mindset to Transform Unjust Systems.鈥�
