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Social Justice in the University Context
University of Kent at CanterburyMarch 2012
Adrienne S. Chan, PhDUniversity of the Fraser ValleyCanada
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To examine social justice within Canadian universities (experiences, practices, policies, contexts, institutional culture). This includes a consideration of diversity and equity.
Objectives of the research
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Research conducted over a three year period
Background research – documentary review : 20 universities
Field research – three universities, interviews
Overview
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Fairness and equity
Access, resources, rights, and treatment for marginalized individuals, and groups of people who do not share equal power in society.
(Constantine, Hage, Kindaichi, & Bryant, 2007)
Social Justice
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Research intensive and teaching intensive
Twenty universities
Alberta
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“Pillars” of social justice on the basis of the 20 universities
Human Rights & Harassment Policy
Equity and diversity policy
Aboriginal Access Policy and Services;
International Education
Disability issues and services
Relationship to the community
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University of British Columbia McMaster University St. Francis Xavier University
Three case studies
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UBC
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UBC
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McMaster
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McMaster
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McMaster
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St. Francis Xavier
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Equity@XMARCH 2008International Women’s Day
~~~Guest Speaker ~~~Kim Pate, Executive Director of the Canadian Associationof Elizabeth Fry Societies will speak on Women Prisonersin Canada: the Criminalization and Institutionalization ofWomen on the Margins. This is sponsored by StFXHuman Rights & Equity Office, StFX Women's Studiesand the Antigonish Women's Resource Centre.
St Francis Xavier
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St. Francis Xavier
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Theme 1- Policies for International Education, Aboriginal Education, and Inclusion
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“it’s a discrimination and harassment policy. … the word equity was a bit of a trigger word. So we’ll all talk in terms of equity but we’re really talking in broader terms.”
Human rights and harassment prevention
Equity and diversity
Disability issues
Theme 2 – Human Rights and Equity: Policies for inclusion?
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Surviving in the academy requires compliance to the “community rules, language and culture”… This community is uni-cultural; it is the uni-versity,”
Theme 3 – Contradictions resistance to change
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Contradictions
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“…working with an equity advisory committee I began to draft a policy, I looked at policies across the country and took what I thought were best practices from other universities because there really was no equity policy regarding that. …there was a lot of resistance…
…faculty through various departments expressed concerns around issues like employment equity”
Theme 4 – Policy discourses
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Some human rights harassment policy tends to focus on sexual harassment only.
Policy discourses evokes a sense of containment and gatekeeping (e.g. hiring): there is a “reification of qualities and characteristics” that make a ‘good’ faculty member
Policy discourses
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The future…
The purpose of policies: Diversity,
equity, human rights, harassment
Addressing campus “culture”: inclusion
Training and education about policy – related
to “live” processes
Individual and collective agency; advisory groups
to advocate for policy change and policy action
Re-examination of what it means to say we are
committed to Social Justice, Equity, and Diversity.