{"id":2285,"date":"2025-01-22T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/researchdev\/?page_id=2285"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:42:48","slug":"crcs-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/research-excellence\/research-chairs\/canada-research-chairs\/crcs-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"CRC's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Home<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Research Excellence<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Research Chairs<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Canada Research Chairs<\/a><\/span> \u00bb CRC's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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On May 4, 2017, the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Secretariat launched its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan<\/a>, in response to concerns on equity and diversity raised during the program\u2019s 15th<\/sup> year evaluation<\/a>. As part of the Plan, all institutions with an allocation of five or more Chairs were required to develop an equity, diversity and inclusion action plan (institutional plan), which describes how the institution will sustain the participation and\/or address the under-representation of individuals from the four designated groups (FDGs: women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples and members of visible minorities) within their allocation of Chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, the CRC Secretariat has published a 2019 Addendum<\/a> to the 2006 Canadian Human Rights Settlement Agreement, which outlines new terms of the revised agreement. These new terms were developed collaboratively between the Canada Research Chairs program and the eight academics who filed complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2003 and update the original settlement agreement to align with best practices. Further to this, the Canada Research Chair program statistics can be found here<\/a>, the program\u2019s population based Institutional Equity Targets 2021-29 can be found here<\/a>, and the program\u2019s Requirements for Recruiting and Nominating Canada Research Chairs can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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York's EDI Action Plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University\u2019s institutional plan was developed with input from a committee chaired by Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Professor and York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health, and former Associate Vice-President Research. The committee membership<\/a> included representation from the FDGs; CRC chairholders; faculty members with expertise in equity\/diversity\/inclusion issues; and University administrators with responsibility for implementing the CRC program. The Executive Co-Sponsors of the initiative were Lisa Philipps, Vice-President Academic and Provost, and Dr. Robert Hach\u00e9, former Vice-President Research & Innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The committee was tasked with developing York\u2019s institutional plan to enable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n