EUS Equity

EUS Equity Committee

Established:	2014
Email:	equity@mcgilleus.ca
Current Executives Equity Commissioners Emilie Froeliger Emily Curling Workshop Coordinator Kwesiga Kahigi

Template:Incomplete The EUS Equity Committee is a committee under the President's portfolio. EUS Equity promotes diversity, inclusion, and equity in engineering at McGill University. The committee is chaired by the Equity Commissioner. The committee communicates mostly through the EUS Equity facebook page.

General

McGill’s EUS Equity Committee promotes diversity, inclusion and social equity in Engineering at McGill.

Social equity states that everyone should have access to the same resources and be able to succeed in our society. Contrarily to equality (is given the same resources) equity takes into consideration people’s identities and how that allows them to move through society. In summation: “Equality is giving everyone shoes, Equity is giving everyone shoes that fit.”

The committee creates discussions about how to make our university environment more inclusive. This group of students talks about issues regarding gender identity, race, sexual orientation, ability, mental health, universal design, teaching & learning and much more. EUS Equity conducts equity training for student leaders to incorporate equity values within our engineering culture. The committee also works with faculty in order to coordinate our efforts to increase diversity in engineering at McGill.

If you are looking to get involved, feel free to email the Equity Commissioner at equity@mcgilleus.ca or message the committee on the EUS Equity facebook page.

The EUS Equity policy can be found online.

Complaints

Equity complaints are brought up to the Equity Commissioner following the equity policy. The commissioner can provide safe, non-judgmental, and confidential support to the people involved in the complaint.

Events

Workshops

The objective of the workshop is to give the participants a different perspective and inform about equity and inclusivity. It is a meeting that engage a discussion or an activity between the participants and the workshop instructors. The norms of the workshops given by the equity Committee are respect, engagement, openness, inclusiveness and confidentiality. Scenarios are discussed, opinions are shared and list of resources are usually made accessible during the workshops. The Equity Committee wish to provide tangible tools for the audience to know how to

1. make events accessible
2. use inclusive language
3. deal with students with specific needs
4. learn what resources and services are available and how to access them.
5. solve real-life situation

The workshops are given to multiple councils of McGill University.

Architecture (ASA)

Mining (CMEUS)

Mechanical (MAME)

Chemical (CHESS)

Materials (MEUS)

Civil (CEUS)

Electrical, Computer, Software

Junior Council

Queer Engineer (QE)

POWE

Blues Pub Managers

EUS Execs

The committee also gave workshop during classes FACC 100 with an intro to safer space and diversity

Structure of the Committee

The committee is based on commissioners and there are several other positions. These positions are the financial officer, the workshop coordinator, the forum coordinator, the communication director and the outreach coordinator. These positions can be filled by one or more people. Their respective duties are listed below.

• Commissioners: ?

  Financial officer: The financial officer is responsible for creating the committee’s budgets, keeping the Committee’s financial records up to date (filling out check requirements & updating budgets), and applying for funds both within EUS and externally.

  Workshop coordinator: The workshop coordinator is responsible for booking, scheduling facilitators and all logistics regarding the EUS Equity Committee’s workshop series.

  Forum coordinator: The forum coordinator is responsible for organizing the forums (fall & winter) with the help of the committee. They head the team organizing the forum.

  Communications director: The communication director is responsible for sharing articles and information on the Facebook page, maintaining the wiki page up to date and the overall social media part of the committee.

  Outreach coordinator: The outreach coordinator is responsible for planning events to recruit new members, collaborate with other equity organizations, etc. (Ex. Open forums, tabling)