On February 3rd, the Dean’s Committee on Gender, Accessibility and Diversity will release its first Equity and Diversity Survey. It will be available online to all students until February 18.
The aim of the survey is to ascertain the extent to which the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is meeting its commitment to creating and fostering an environment that is welcoming to all, with particular sensitivity to students from minority or equity-seeking groups.
On behalf of the Gender, Accessibility and Diversity Committee, we would like to encourage all students to complete the survey. We know that you are all busy people and you might be thinking it’s not worth your time to fill it out, that the responses from the survey will simply sit on the proverbial shelf, but nothing could be further from the truth.
The Committee is composed of faculty, staff, JD and graduate students, and has spent almost a year designing the survey. The information gathered will go directly to helping the Committee make recommendations on what programs or initiatives should be introduced in order to make the law school a more welcoming place for all students. But we can’t do that without knowing what the issues are.
Of course we know there are anecdotal stories, but they’ve never been gathered and documented in a systematic way – that’s what the Committee hopes to do with this survey. We want to hear from all law students, since a greater number of responses will give us a more accurate picture of student experiences. So please, take a few minutes between February 3rd and 18th to fill out the survey, and tell us your experience of diversity at the law school.
