The broad goal of this committee is to support excellence within the Faculty of Science by developing programs and policies that foster an environment in which all of our students, faculty and staff can succeed and thrive.
Launched in December 2018, the SECC meets once a month during the academic year. The committee aims to develop programs and policies that align with and support the University’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), as well as more general measures that will support our EDI principles indirectly through approaches that will improve the working and learning climate for everyone in our community.
With representation from all Faculty of Science units, the committee will serve as a hub that will function to disseminate information about University EDI policies and initiatives, to collect information from the units about their EDI-related activities and concerns, to create knowledge and capacity through group discussions, and to ensure that unit-level EDI activities are aligned with University policy.
SECC committee members:
- Adrian Liu (Chair; Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Equity)
- Ava Colangelo (Graduate student representative; Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
- Ben Yu (Science Undergraduate Society)
- Bruno Tremblay (Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
- Diane Dechief (Office of Science Education)
- Eric McCalla (Dept. of Chemistry)
- Jason Hessels (Dept. of Physics)
- Kalil Bouhadra (Graduate student representative; Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics)
- Khalil Zaidi (Science Undergraduate Society)
- Maha Ibrahim (Dept. of Physics)
- Marcy Slapcoff (Office of Science Education)
- Nicolas Cowan (Depts. of Physics and Earth and Planetary Sciences)
- Pallavi Sirjoosingh (Dept. of Chemistry)
- Pascale Gourdeau (School of Computer Science)
- Rebecca Maymon (Faculty of Science Office of Graduate Education)
- Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics)
- Sarah Turner (Dept. of Geography)
- Stephanie Weber (Dept. of Biology)