Anti-Black Racism
New Student-Led BIDE Institute Seeks to Tackle Issues of Racism and Inclusivity on UWindsor Campus
The new Belonging, Inclusivity, Diversity, and Equity Institute is run entirely by students through the Office of Student Experience. The goal of the Institute is to create and implement different initiatives that uplift marginalized and underrepresented groups on campus. Its creation comes in the wake of incidents of anti-Black racism and issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion that have transpired on campus in the last year. This includes the University’s mishandling of a Black student’s assault complaint, the racist messages sent in the private group chat of the school's now-defunct Delta Chi fraternity, and incidents of professors using the N-word
No Small Task : A Conversation With Anti-Black Racism Task Force Members
by: Donneyha Ellis Geohagen “I am optimistic that the task force will do what it was created to do,” says Anti-Black Racism Task Force co-chair Jessica Bona-Mensah. What the task force has been created to do is wide-ranging: collect data to best identify and review policies, programs, pedagogical practices, and research about racism on campus. Created in Fall 2020, the task force is made up of racialized faculty members and students and acts as an advisory board to the President. While approaching the initiative with open minds, task force members are maintaining a critical eye. The University of Windsor’s Students’ Association representative to