Inclusion Week: Moving from Tension to Connection: Tools for Restorative Conversations (At Markham Campus)

Whether you support or teach students, collaborate across teams, or lead within your department, this 90-minute interactive workshop offers staff, faculty and leaders a welcoming space to build skills that strengthen communication, repair, and connection. Even small moments of tension can strain relationships and make repair feel risky. How we respond in these moments often […]

Inclusion Week: Empowered Expressions

Empowered Expressions is a gentle, community-centered art and journaling session created to encourage advocacy, awareness and supportive practices for survivors. Through creativity, empowerment, and connection. This open event offers a calming space to express, reflect, and heal—no artistic background or experience needed. Come as you are; participation and sharing are always entirely optional. All community […]

Inclusion Week: Care, Conflict, and (in)Civility in Academic Life

Faculty Affairs is delighted to welcome a special guest, Professor Alice MacLachlan, Vice-Provost & Dean, Graduate Studies to an online conversation series on (re)building academic spaces of care and inclusion. In an era marked by political polarization, social fragmentation, and moral disagreements, how can individuals, communities, institutions including universities rebuild trust and move forward together? […]

What Does Inclusion Look Like to You?

Students will write, draw, paint, etc. what inclusion means to them on a canvas. This event is held in partnership with Student Accessibility Services, Markham. This is a drop-in event. Registration is not required. For further information, visit the the Inclusion Week 2025 micro-site.

The Paradox of Accommodation in a Disabled and Disabling World

Accommodating disability is vital to removing barriers in everyday life for disabled people/ people with disabilities. However, there are many paradoxes within the accommodation process including how disability is conceptualized, how systemic barriers are reinforced or dismantled, and how accommodation can bring about in/exclusion.  In this fireside chat, Enable York will host Marian McGregor and […]