{"id":79923,"date":"2021-11-17T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T22:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=79923"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:21","slug":"carleton-university-signs-scarborough-charter-on-anti-black-racism-and-black-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2021\/carleton-university-signs-scarborough-charter-on-anti-black-racism-and-black-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton University Signs Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton University Signs Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University is proud to count itself among the 40 universities across Canada to sign and endorse the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utsc.utoronto.ca\/principal\/scarborough-charter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Scarborough Charter&nbsp;on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education<\/em><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith this endorsement, Carleton reaffirms its commitment to address anti-Black racism and foster Black inclusion across our university,\u201d said Ikram Jama, interim assistant vice-president and university advisor, Equity and Inclusive Communities. \u201cThe <em>Charter<\/em> presents us with opportunities to build on our institutional <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edi-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan<\/a> and to design and implement specific actions that target systemic and structural racism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The virtual signing of the <em>Charter<\/em> will take place on Thursday, Nov. 18 from 3 to 4 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lbIu1PdxkNY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis important Charter marks an important commitment of standing against anti-Black racism in Canadian Higher Education and in broader society,\u201d said Carleton President Benoit-Antoine Bacon. \u201cWe look forward to working with partner institutions to collectively advance the principles and actions of the <em>Charter<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signatories of the&nbsp;<em>Scarborough Charter<\/em>&nbsp;are following through on the promises at the October 2020&nbsp;<em>National Dialogues and Action for Inclusive Higher Education and Communities<\/em>, to move to meaningful concrete action to address anti-Black racism and to promote Black inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Scarborough Charter<\/em>&nbsp;reflects a collective recognition of the realities of anti-Black racism, shared aspirations to address it, and a concrete framework for delivering on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University is proud to count itself among the 40 universities across Canada to sign and endorse the&nbsp;Scarborough Charter&nbsp;on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education. \u201cWith this endorsement, Carleton reaffirms its commitment to address anti-Black racism and foster Black inclusion across our university,\u201d said Ikram Jama, interim assistant vice-president and university advisor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":79924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1660],"class_list":["post-79923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-equity-and-inclusive-communities"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79934,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79923\/revisions\/79934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}