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 (Dept. of Physics)
- Bruno Tremblay (Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
- Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia (Trottier Space Institute)
- Charlotte Spruzen (Graduate Student Representative)
- Diane Dechief (Faculty of Science - Office of Science Education)
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Elaine Xiao (Undergraduate Student Representative, Science Undergraduate Society)
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Eliot Bergeron (Undergraduate Student Representative, Science Undergraduate Society)
- Flavio Affinito (Graduate Student Representative)
- Jacky Farrell (Faculty of Science - Office of Science Outreach)
- Kris Onishi (Dept. of Psychology)
- Kit Malo (McGill Equity Team)
- Laura Nilson (SECC Organizer/Chair; Faculty of Science – Associate Dean of Graduate Education; Dept. of Biology)
- Lindsay Marie Wilmot (Faculty of Science - Student Affairs)
- Marcy Slapcoff (Faculty of Science – Office of Science Education)
- Nagissa Mahmoudi (Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences)
- Pallavi Sirjoosingh (Dept. of Chemistry)
- Rebecca Maymon (Faculty of Science - Office of Associate Dean, Graduate Education)
- Reihaneh Rabbany (School of Computer Science)
- Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics)
- Sarah Turner (Dept. of Geography)
- Sarah Woolley (Dept. of Biology)