{"id":70003,"date":"2020-10-13T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=70003"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:54:19","slug":"inclusion-week-pandemic-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/inclusion-week-pandemic-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton’s Inclusion Week Explores Solutions to Pandemic and Social Justice Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the wake of a public health crisis, worldwide protests against systemic racism and in recognition of the priorities of Carleton\u2019s new Strategic Integrated Plan<\/a> (SIP), the Carleton University community will come together during the second annual Inclusion Week<\/a>, which runs virtually from Oct. 19 to Oct. 23, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weeklong event series will raise awareness of the value of human rights work, celebrate the power of inclusion in our community, and explore practical ways to further integrate inclusion into the life and mission of the university.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cCarleton is a diverse community that strives for inclusion, but we are part of the broader world and in no way immune from these issues and challenges,\u201d Carleton President Benoit-Antoine Bacon and Provost Jerry Tomberlin wrote in a recent message to the community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cWe have made progress this year<\/a>, but there is no question that much remains to be done. It is our shared responsibility to always seek to do better, and to be part of solutions. The burden of change is on each of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant Vice-President and University Advisor for EIC Michael F. Charles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Carleton\u2019s SIP outlines how the Carleton community will work together in ways that demonstrate Carleton\u2019s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the past, Carleton has often engaged in EDI work in silos. Attention was paid unevenly across campus, relying on different conceptual understandings and sometimes disconnected and inconsistent approaches,\u201d says Assistant Vice-President and University Advisor, Michael Charles<\/a>, in the Department of Equity and Inclusive Communities<\/a> (EIC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInclusion Week will allow members from across the institution to come together in the same place at the same time to exchange within a shared virtual experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The theme of Inclusion Week\u2014Inclusion in Transition\u2014reflects the unsettled times in which we live. It will address the subject of inclusion in the context of this historic moment of pandemic dislocation, racial reckoning and technological transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThese circumstances present opportunities to accelerate accessibility on campus. As concerns grow about engaging students in a virtual learning environment, EDI-infused pedagogy and curriculum looks even more promising. And although we had conceived of the idea of a panel devoted to the experiences and insights of black faculty before the police-involved killings of this past summer, the urgent need for such discussion has since been made quite clear,\u201d says Charles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cIn more general ways, it is also an opportunity to re-examine the relationship between the university and the broader society in this transformational period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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