Access, Community + Belonging in Teaching + Research
Access and equitable teaching and learning helps to ensure that all students can participate and succeed. Research teams which have reduced inequities, removed barriers, and have a strong sense of belonging contribute to innovation and research excellence.
Teaching
- Accommodations and Accessibility: The U of A and its instructors are obligated to provide accessibility-related accommodations to students with disabilities. This website provides information about accommodations for students, instructors, staff and faculty.
- Essential Practices in Accessible Teaching: The Centre for Teaching and Learning website includes valuable resources for access and accessibility, and community and belonging.
- Safety and Belonging in the Field: A Checklist for Educators: This article provides valuable guidance for instructors of field courses in CNAS.
- 5 ways of making your syllabus more inclusive: Before classes start, consider these five additions to your syllabus.
- Inclusive Design: A list of practical suggestions and resources for instructors related to equity, diversity and inclusion, maintained by psychology teaching professor Jennifer Passey
- Community Service Learning enables instructors to link academic coursework to community based experiences. Students work with community organizations as part of their studies.
Research
- CNAS Tip Sheet for Incorporating EDI in Research and Grant Applications: This tip sheet aims to assist all researchers in CNAS to incorporate EDI into their research.
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research, Office of the Vice-President (Research & Innovation)
- Safety and Belonging in the Field: A Checklist for Educators This article includes valuable guidance for researchers involved in field research.
- A research group/lab code of conduct example for research teams