Silver

Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 47.xv
Liaison Elenore Breslow
Submission Date November. 24, 2020

Brock University
PA-vii: Back up for Underrepresented Groups

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.92 / 3.00 Leela Madhava Rau
Manager, Homo Rights & Equity
Office of Man Rights & Equity Services
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Does the institution have a publicly posted non-discrimination statement? :

Yes

The not-discrimination statement, including the website URL where the policy is publicly accessible:

Brock University is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive community where our students, staff, faculty, course participants, volunteers and visitors can work and learn in an environment that respects the dignity and worth of members of the Brock community. Brock Academy has a published Respectful Work and Learning Environment Policy, Sexual Set on and Harassment Policy, and Accessibility Policy.

The purpose of the Respectful Work and Learning Environment policy is to:
- Develop and support a work and learning culture that values variety and inclusion, fosters respect, and does non tolerate prejudice, discrimination, harassment and/or bullying;
- Outline rights, responsibilities and types of behaviour which fall within the scope of this policy;
- Make provision for support services, including training and awareness initiatives, to promote a respectful work and learning environment; and
- Outline procedures for handling and resolving complaints when this policy is breached by discrimination, harassment and/or bullying.

The purpose of the Sexual Set on and Harassment policy is to:
- Promote a prophylactic and inclusive environment that is free of Sexual Violence;
- Provide Survivors with a procedure to study incidents of Sexual Violence to the University;
- Create a decision-making procedure that meets the requirements of procedural fairness and holds those who take committed Sexual Violence accountable; and,
- Run across legal requirements under the Ministry building of Preparation, Colleges and Universities Deed, the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Occupational Wellness

The purpose of the Accessibility policy is to:
Outline the commitment of Brock University (the "University") in promoting accessibility, equal participation and inclusion as an inherent right of persons with disabilities by implementing the requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Deed, South.O. 2005, c. 11 ("AODA") and its regulations: Integrated Accessibility Standards, O. Reg. 191/eleven("IASR").

https://brocku.ca/policies/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/Respectful-Work-and-Learning-Surroundings-Policy.pdf

https://brocku.ca/human-rights/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/Brock-Sexual-Attack-and-Harassment-Policy.pdf

https://brocku.ca/policies/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/Accessibility-Policy.pdf

Does the institution accept a discrimination response protocol or commission (sometimes chosen a bias response team)?:

Yes

A cursory clarification of the institution'south discrimination response protocol or team:

Brock University has a team dedicated to human rights and equity that is provided through the Office of Human being Rights & Disinterestedness Services (OHRES). The OHRES is a resources for all Brock customs members, including students, staff, and faculty. Contact with the office is a confidential service. OHRES provides information and communication on a broad range of issues relating to harassment and discrimination. The University has a variety of policies, procedures and codes of conduct that prohibit Brock customs members from harassing, bullying, or discriminating against others. The OHRES staff works with individuals to determine on an arroyo to resolution that works best for a given situation, often making use of alternative dispute resolution techniques that permit the parties to rebuild their relationship in a more positive, respectful way.

Does the establishment have programs specifically designed to recruit students from underrepresented groups?:

Yes

Does the institution accept programs specifically designed to recruit bookish staff from underrepresented groups?:

Yes

Does the establishment take programs designed specifically to recruit non-academic staff from underrepresented groups?:

No

A brief description of the institution's programs to recruit students, bookish staff, and/or not-academic staff from underrepresented groups:

Students:

Domestic undergraduate recruitment has supported activities such equally: Ability and Empowerment Day, 100 Strong Foundation, and other such initiatives. The inaugural Power Empowerment 24-hour interval includes a series of workshops and activities for high schoolhouse students experiencing disability to discover opportunities in post-secondary education. In 2019, more than forty students from high schools across Ontario attended Brock's Ability Empowerment Day. Participants were treated to mini-workshops from various academic departments and services, dejeuner in Market Hall, a mock lecture where they practiced note-taking, participated in a Mirror Theatre activity and met with a representative from Pupil Accessibility Services.

The 100 Strong Foundation aims to support young blackness men to accomplish across their circumstances. In 2018, on Nelson Mandela Day, effectually 80 youths from the Toronto-based 100 Strong Foundation's summer program visited Brock. The students were greeted by Brock University President Gervan Fearon, the showtime and but blackness president of a Canadian University. Students from the Strong Academy who came to Brock, spent the twenty-four hours visiting science labs, attended a mock Social Science lecture, completed a workout in the Brock Sports High Performance Centre, participated in the High Ropes team building activeness, travelled to the St. Catharines Museum to detect the rich legacy of Niagara'due south African-Canadians as a role of the "Northward Star" showroom, and stayed overnight in the Academy residences. The Strong Academy is a summer program that works to instill the value of education in boys aged eleven to 14 through traditional schooling and experiential learning opportunities.

Bookish Staff:

Brock University's Canadian Research Chair – Equity, Multifariousness, and Inclusion Plan demonstrates Brock'due south shared commitment to achieving great disinterestedness, variety, and inclusion (EDI). Post-obit the provisions of the Employment Equity Act, a central consideration within the Canada Research Chairs Program is the need to engage in proactive employment practices that are bulwark-free, accommodate deviation, address under-representation, and correct the conditions of disadvantage in employment experienced by members of particular demographic groups. The federally designated employment disinterestedness-seeking groups are women, persons with disability, Indigenous peoples, and members of visible minorities. Through the Collective Understanding Betwixt Brock University and the Brock University Faculty Association (referenced as the BUFA Collective Agreement), Brock besides recognizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons as a designated employment disinterestedness seeking group.

Brock is committed to EDI-informed practices and policies, both with the research enterprise and broadly throughout the university. As function of this delivery, President and Vice Chancellor Dr. Gervan Fearon has signed the Dimensions Charter. Brock Academy is actively committed to diverseness and the principles of employment disinterestedness and invites applications from all interested candidates. Women, Aboriginal peoples, members of visible minorities, people with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily cocky-identify as a member of a designated group as part of their application. Candidates who wish to be considered as a member of ane or more designated groups should fill out the self-identification questions include in the questionnaire at the fourth dimension of application.

Brock University and the Brock Academy Faculty Association (BUFA) accept a Collective Agreement and Article xx of the Agreement addresses Employment Equity. Whereby it is best-selling that Brock University and BUFU agree to the principle of employment equity and agree to piece of work towards increasing the proportion of women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons at the University. Please see the link to the Collective Agreement below for exact diction and further particular of this Understanding.

Does the institution accept mentoring, counseling, peer support, academic support, or other programs designed specifically to support students from underrepresented groups on campus?:

Yes

Does the institution have mentoring, counseling, peer support or other programs designed specifically to support bookish staff from underrepresented groups on campus?:

Yes

Does the institution have mentoring, counseling, peer support or other programs to support not-academic staff from underrepresented groups on campus?:

Yes

A cursory description of the institution's programs designed specifically to back up students, academic staff, and/or non-bookish staff from underrepresented groups:

Students:

Brock Academy has implemented many dissimilar services and programs to meet the increasing mental health needs of our constantly changing student population. Brock offers free counselling services and several on-campus mental health resource including those for international, ancient and students with disabilities. Brock offers peer support programs through the HRE, the Peer ii Peer Back up Drop-in program provides a safety space that offers support, resources, or only someone to talk to. There are likewise resource available for students who have been impacted by sexual violence and may brainstorm by contacting Brock's Sexual Violence Back up and Education Coordinator, additionally at that place are racial injustice resources including the HRE Sexual Trauma and Self-Intendance resource page, Resources for Blackness Healing Back up, and Aboriginal Educatee Services.

Brock Pride is the official Brock Academy club devoted to creating a safe, social surroundings for students of diverse gender and sexual identities. They offer a welcoming atmosphere which provides an opportunity for students of the pride customs (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, two-spirited, intersex, queer, questioning or otherwise associated) and their allies to create support networks and gain guidance in maintaining good for you relationships, coming out, and other issues relevant to having a queer identity.

Academic Staff:

The Women and Leadership initiative aims to discuss the current situation for women in leadership roles at Brock, to consider ways to support women in formal and informal leadership positions and encourage the next generation of potential women leaders.

Academic Staff and Non-Academic Staff:

Brock has undertaken a mentoring program through which individuals may make a asking for a specific mentor, particularly to address issues that may arise for members of marginalized communities.

Brock is commencement a procedure to develop affinity groups for members of marginalized communities. Some are specific to creating changes for that customs, such as the 2SLGBTQ+ Group, Decolonization Working Committee, Anti-Ableism and Mental Wellness Group, Ethnic Faculty and Staff group, Blackness Faculty and Staff Group. In addition, Brock has supported the cosmos of a grouping of white employees working on their own white supremacy.

Does the institution have grooming and development programs, teaching fellowships and/or other programs that specifically aim to back up and prepare students from underrepresented groups for careers as kinesthesia members?:

No

A brief description of the institution's programs to support and prepare students from underrepresented groups for careers equally faculty members:

Does the institution produce a publicly accessible inventory of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus?:

Aye

Does the institution offer housing options to accommodate the special needs of transgender and transitioning students?:

Yes

Website URL where information well-nigh the establishment's support for underrepresented groups is available:

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