Overview
ISUP recognizes the importance of ensuring all members of UTM’s teaching and learning community have the opportunities, support, and tools to succeed. The ISUP Staff Award for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) acknowledges and celebrates efforts by staff to achieve this goal by promoting EDI in their work at ISUP.
This award will be presented to individuals who have either demonstrated leadership in promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion or developed innovative practices that remove barriers and build new opportunities for those who traditionally have been under-represented (e.g., visible/racialized minorities, members of Indigenous communities, disabled people, 2SLGBTQ+) on campus.
Examples of practices, events, policies, programs, or other activities that ISUP Staff may have led or helped develop may include the following:
- An initiative or program that embeds a commitment to the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion;
- An initiative or program that helps students, staff, or instructors from under-represented groups feel included;
- A tool or practice that provides support for an equity-seeking group;
- An initiative or action designed to revise or create procedures, policies, or practices to make them more inclusive;
- Showing leadership in promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion on campus.
Eligibility
All staff with a minimum of one year of service at ISUP and who are currently employed at ISUP at the time of the award presentation are eligible for this award.
Selection Criteria
Nominees for this award will be evaluated according to some or all of the following criteria:
- Showed leadership in promoting equity, diversity, or inclusion.
- Developed or reformed existing practices, activities, or programs to promote equity, diversity, or inclusion.
- Helped build respectful environments to enhance equity, diversity, or inclusion.
Nomination Process
A nomination package must be submitted via this nomination form before February 2nd of the current academic year to qualify for this award.
The nomination package must include the following:
- A detailed nomination, maximum 2 pages in length (1000 words), from an ISUP staff or faculty member specifying how the nominee meets the criteria for the award.
- A letter of endorsement (maximum 1 page in length) from the nominee’s direct supervisor if the nominator is not the nominee’s direct supervisor.
- A letter of support from one additional person.
The ISUP Awards Committee will determine the recipient, based on the criteria outlined, and announce the winner before April 30th of the current academic year.