Events by month

This online module is available anytime and focuses on the faculty hiring process and promotes best practices for recruitment and selection to ensure that the committee reaches an unbiased and fair decision.

Audience: Faculty

This online module is available anytime and focuses on ensuring UWaterloo employees are equipped to understand and identify behaviours that may be considered harassment or discrimination.

Audience: Staff

This e-course is available to all Waterloo students, faculty and staff and is an opportunity for (un)learning and gaining tools to better take anti-racist action in our own lives, at work, home, and in our communities.

Presentation on Métis culture and history, including with the ethnogenesis of the Métis, "Who Are the Métis?", their unique and rich culture and language. Why did they disappear in history? Where are they today? 

Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff

The presentation by Pride at Work Canada will encompass a history of 2SLGBTQ+ Canada with a focus on Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ employment discrimination starting in the 1970s.

Available to University of Waterloo employees  

This workshop provides an opportunity to learn how to manage difficult conversations when they arise, whether it be with a manager, supervisor, colleague or even family member.

Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff

This foundational workshop is designed to give you an understanding of equity and how our interactions with one another are shaped by systems of oppression, power, and privilege.  

Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
Level: Introductory

This virtual panel discussion hosted by Pride at Work Canada will look at how we move from discussion of equity towards justice for all in our workplaces. 

Situated within the values and frameworks of anti-racism, the session facilitated by Rania El Mugammar explores the historical foundation of anti-Black racism within Canada and its present day implications on Black communities.

Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
Level: Introductory

The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) is in the process of developing an Active Bystander Program for campus to reduce the amount of harassment and sexual violence students’ face.

Audience: Students

This is an introductory workshop to help students, faculty and staff develop greater understandings of 2SLGBTQ+ identities; gain knowledge about protected rights; and,  identify and explore barriers to develop and foster actions that create a more welcoming campus environment and offer meaningful and relevant support.

Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
Level: Introductory

The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) is in the process of developing an Active Bystander Program for campus to reduce the amount of harassment and sexual violence students’ face.

Audience: Students

This workshop hosted by Pride at Work Canada will address the unique experiences of non-binary employees and jobseekers and what needs to change for their full participation.

Available to University of Waterloo employees  

This workshop will raise your awareness of behaviours and attitudes that may contribute or lead to workplace harassment

Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff

The Indigenous Initiatives Office is pleased to have Ela Smith present this two-part workshop where campus community members will gain a deeper understanding of historic and current realities for First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) people in Ontario and Canada.

Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff

This workshop/presentation facilitated by Dr. Gauthamie Poolokasingham focuses on topics of culture, intersectionality, social determinants of health, racism, and White privilege in Canada and Canadian institutions of learning.

Audience: Faculty, Staff and Students
Level: Introductory