Educate
One of our primary objectives is to ensure that the EDI lens is incorporated in our education. Ted Rogers School's award-winning faculty cares deeply about creating inclusive and safe learning environments for all students. In our belief that students carry their learnings with them, and in our aim to equip them with knowledge of critical and emerging trends, our curriculum is intentionally designed to be representative of culturally diverse and equitable perspectives. Through their research, teaching and service, our faculty members work in concert with students and staff to make the Ted Rogers School a leading institution for EDI-centered learning.
Learning and teaching grants
This year, several Ted Rogers School faculty members were among a dozen who received 2022-2023 Learning and Teaching Grants, which are funded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, and reflect the University’s continuing commitment to teaching excellence and pedagogical leadership and dedication to EDI in the classroom.
Assistant professor Dr. Ellen Choi was awarded a grant for her project, “Experientially Cultivating Skills to Advance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusions in Classrooms Through Simulations.” The project develops live actor simulations on issues related to equity, diversity and inclusion specifically focusing on microaggressions. Simulations offer students and faculty the opportunity to engage in conversations that are crucial to the advancement of equity and inclusion but are often insufficiently addressed in the classroom.
Assistant professor and Indigenous Advisor Michael Mihalicz was awarded grants from the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) and the Indigenous Education Council (IEC) for his project "Being and Belonging: Fostering a sense of belonging amongst Indigenous students in university spaces." This is a course-based recruitment and retention initiative where current TMU students work collaboratively with high school students from equity-deserving groups to develop projects that are important to them and their learning.
“We know that a lot of Indigenous students don’t pursue university education and we have a fairly good understanding of why. What we don’t know is how we can do better as a university. Only Indigenous students know what we need to do better or do differently. Design thinking is a user-centric approach to creative problem solving that places the students at the centre of the design process,” Mihalicz explained.
“Design thinking is a user-centric approach to creative problem solving that places the students at the centre of the design process.”
Associate Professor and Chair of the Law and Business Department, Dr. Chris MacDonald, was awarded a Learning and Teaching Grant (LTG) for his project, “TMU Assignment Guru: AI to improve student success and decrease academic misconduct.” The project supports the development of TMU Assignment Guru, a GPT-3 powered app that breaks assignments down into steps and projects the amount of time required for each step for students and to assess the ability of an AI-driven assignment planner to improve student performance and decrease academic misconduct.