BCIT seeks to foster a climate of collaboration, understanding, and mutual respect between all community members and ensure an inclusive, accessible working and learning environment where everyone can succeed. In recognition of this, BCIT is embarking on designing and creating an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) strategy that will be finalized and shared with the community.
RDI’s Action Plan for 2025-26
This RDI Action Plan sets out priority action items in four key areas, aligned with the areas identified in the Anti-Racism Framework. The Action Plan is also informed by an inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and belonging audit that was conducted in 2023 which led to the emergence of a number of recommendations for BCIT. These action items are intended to be achieved in 2025-26 and will build towards a more fulsome institute-wide action plan in the future.
Education and Raising Awareness
Building awareness that racism and other forms of discrimination exist everywhere, educating the BCIT community about the various forms that discrimination can take, and developing approaches to prevent or address it.
Data collection, analysis, and utilization
Using data to increase our understanding of the experiences and impacts of different intersecting identities on student and staff recruitment, retention and advancement, as well as the broader experiences of equity-deserving groups in the BCIT community.
Human resources and policies
Enacting strategies that will result in greater diversity in hiring; reviewing and adjusting policies to enable equity for staff and students; and expanding the application of a lens of accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion in BCIT’s operations.
Inclusive learning environments
Creating an environment where students feel a sense of belonging and respect at BCIT by enacting strategies within programs, co-curricular activities, and services that contribute to a more accessible, equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment.