• A brief history of the group
• Education/Trainiers for Office Equity and Inclusion Education Officer posting has been released
• Once the persons are hired, we should setup a meeting with them to see potential partnerships
• Will arrange a meeting with Gurdeep Parhar
• Lack of concrete strategy provides CTLT with an opportunity to “play ahead of the game” and start relationships with other/new staff and units
• Look into Universal Instructional Design for face-to-face classes
• Some work has already been done by the DBL team
• Maybe collaborate with Equity office for resources
• What about language inclusion? (e.g. Afsaneh’s culturepedia)
• Ask others what else have we been doing regarding Equity and Inclusion
• Shaya wants to plan a workshop for the next ETUG workshop (http://etug.ca/2013/07/29/fall-workshop-2013-call-for-proposal-open/)
• Hanae will do a Doodle for next meeting

Questions for Gurdeep

• What do you have on your plate?
• Information exchange
• Include mission, blog of the Intercultural Working Group in email

Work related to Equity and Inclusion

• Offer Classroom Climate Workshops
• Workshop Request (e.g. Peer Programs, TA Training, Go Global, JUMPStart)
• Challenges regarding student-instructor relationships, peer mentorship
• History of Aboriginal at UBC Timeline workshop
• Accessibility in distance learning courses
• TRC-related projects
• Pecha Kucha at Intercultural U
• Intercultural Understanding Working Group
• “Who Are You” Session at ETUG Fall Workshop
• Participated in the IdleNoMore Conference, Encounters in Canada Conference (relationship between immigrants and Aboriginal peoples)
• Living Lab

CTLT Dialogues Article

• Write an article after the TRC
• Reflections from different projects
• Maybe for now a short list of TRC related projects for the CTLT homepage
• Target the October Newsletter
• Digital signage in the Library
• Shaya will send an email to Sukhi about digital signage

Attendees: Amy, Hanae, Judy, Shaya, and Zack

1. Report on the Implementing Inclusion meeting on July 30 (Judy and Hanae attended.)

• New structure for equity and inclusivity at UBC
• Some of the key concerns addressed at the meeting pertaining to our work at CTLT: How can we support the teaching and learning of students, faculty, and staff?

2. Future actions

• Next meeting (Hanae will initiate a Doodle poll for the last week of August): Review the final and full version of the equity implementation and discuss how we may be able to act proactively to insert our work into the new structure of equity and inclusivity.
• Hanae will propose a meeting with kele, Alden, Gurdeep (Acting AVP), and someone from the Intercultural Working Group to discuss how we may be able to be part of the new equity and inclusivity initiative at UBC.
• Other activity/action ideas:
  – Create an email template to announce our monthly meeting, which the facilitator of the meeting for the month uses to send out to CTLT-All email list (to encourage more CTLT staff to participate in our initiative).
  – Inform widely about our initiative through CTLT Dialogues (Possible themes: flexible learning, identity, colonial perspective/space)
  – Present at ETUG (Education Tech Interest Group), Intercultural U