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Equity Action Plan

Recruitment and retention progress

Attract, advance, and retain students, staff, faculty, librarians and senior leadership from systemically and historically marginalized communities.

Full goal

By the numbers

Check out the tallies that show the number of actions (out of 13) under this goal that are being implemented at each level of the university.

10

unit level actions

8

faculty-wide actions

8

portfolio-wide actions

8

university-wide actions

Check out the FAQs to learn about the levels.

Activity examples

Responses to the Equity Action Plan reporting survey suggest that recruitment and retention is an area where leaders feel they can make significant impact. Multiple actions across the goal are being implemented at every level. Because recruitment of both employees and students typically occurs in specific contexts within portfolios, faculties and units, several actions across the goal may benefit from being implemented at a university-wide level. Below are three examples of activities advancing this goal.

Advancing equity through community-driven education

Submitted on behalf of the Faculty of Education. For more than fifteen years, the UVic Faculty of Education’s Centre for Outreach Education (CORE) has been a resource for K–8...

Housing and development

Submitted on behalf of Community and Government Relations . In partnership with provincial and municipal governments, Vice President External Relations (VPER) and Vice President Finance...

Job description templates

Submitted on behalf of Human Resources. Job description templates are a helpful tool for hiring managers across the 樱花影视 as they develop and update the roles within their teams....

Achieved actions

Action Completion notes
Action 6: Develop guidelines, under the terms of the Faculty Collective Agreement, to recognize the student support work done by faculty from systemically and historically marginalized communities as university service.  Additions were made to the meaning of service in the Faculty Collective Agreement(2022-2025) to include “contributions to student life in relation to their academic success with specific recognition of support and mentorship provided to students from marginalized groups” (25.22 (d)).
Action 7: Design and implement committee chair training as part of the Equity in Decision-Making Processes online training. A tool was developed to assist chairs in embedding equity into all appointment, reappointment, promotion and tenure processes. Workshops and individual support for using the tool are available. A public link to the tool will be available later in 2025.
Action 10: Develop a collection of job description templates that are written in plain language, equity-centred and focused on skills. New equity-centred job description templates have been designed and released as part of the .
Action 11: Undertake a survey on faculty and staff housing needs and use this information to develop appropriate housing strategies. In Fall 2022, UVic conducted an employee housing survey the results of which informed the development of the UVic Real Estate Strategy.