Inclusion Week

 

Upcoming event: March 17 - 21, 2025

Inclusion Week at Mount Royal University (MRU) serves as a catalyst for important conversations and education on equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility (EDIA). The event creates a safe space for diverse topics and presentations that might not otherwise be shared. Past sessions highlighted the need for adaptability in teaching and research roles, emphasizing that EDIA is an ongoing journey across various professional contexts beyond community advocacy. These insights reflect MRU’s commitment to a sense of belonging, accessibility and being a welcoming environment free from discrimination and systemic racism.

 

Check back in February for the event schedule!

 

“Inclusion Week provided a safe environment for specific topics and conversations to be had. Without Inclusion Week, some presentations may not have been created and shared so it opened up that space…”

— Inclusion Week 2024 attendee

 

 

 

Get involved in Inclusion Week

 

 

Present at Inclusion Week 2025

Calling all students, staff and faculty at MRU! Are you interested in raising awareness and sharing tools for change? Consider applying to present your ideas, project work, experiences and/or research to the MRU community at Inclusion Week 2025.

 

Applications will be open from Dec. 15 2024 to Jan. 31, 2025. For the regisration application, Click Here.

If you have any questions, please contact Lisa at lcole@1mtroyal.ca.

All applications will be carefully reviewed by the planning committee. Presentations that nurture a space of belonging for all will be given priority. The committee aims to feature a diverse range of community members and topic areas. If your presentation is not selected, you may request to be considered for future campus events.

 

Join the planning committee

The planning committee is now full, but we have space for volunteers to help during Inclusion Week. If you are interested in volunteering, please email Lisa at lcole1@mtroyal.ca

 

 

 

Reflections from MRU Inclusion Week 2024

Inclusion Week 2024 featured 25 presentations with 40 presenters across 5 days, including MRU students, employees and community members. Student voices were central, with 20 student speakers among the presenters who shared their ideas. 594 members of the MRU community registered to attend.

 

“It brings people together to start conversations and to educate themselves or others on important topics. As inclusion and empowerment are an ongoing journey with no endpoint and Inclusion Week provided a space for that, it is an event that is a part of the journey!”

“Dr. Adesola's session really emphasized the need to be adaptive in teaching and researching roles. He said EDIA is an ongoing process and that resonated with me. I have not heard a lot of EDIA practices in the teacher/researcher role, only the community advocate role, so it was great to hear.”

“I loved learning the differences between ableism and disablism, as I hadn't really considered those two things before. I also found the ADHD presentation to be very helpful (and noticed a huge number of employees that found it exciting to be able to talk about neurodivergence from their own perspective, when so many staff are neurodivergent). Perhaps this is a good clue that staff would like to participate in conversations about how it affects their lives, in addition to how to help students.”