About

The Toronto Initiative for Diversity and Excellence (TIDE) is a grassroots service group consisting of University of Toronto (U of T) faculty members from across disciplines who volunteer their time to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion at the university. Founded in 2016, TIDE provides free, evidence-informed workshops and seminars to the U of T community, and shares resources and promising practices for inclusion. With a focus on how varied challenges to inclusion can negatively impact equity-deserving groups in the academic context, TIDE provides recommendations on practical actions that aim to mitigate and overcome these barriers. TIDE’s sessions cover various aspects of departmental culture and the academic career arc, and are customized to capture the issues most pressing in a given unit. TIDE also provides confidential counsel to academic leaders, staff units, and administrators.

TIDE gratefully acknowledges budgetary support from the office of the Vice President & Provost U of T and administrative support from the Vice Principal Academic and Dean, University of Toronto Scarborough.

Join TIDE

Perspectives and personal experiences from different scholarly fields, divisions, and campuses are welcome and necessary for TIDE to be effective.

 There are many ways that members can contribute to TIDE’s mission, including: 

• sharing literature for our database, 
• joining a working group
• supporting grant applications
• co-developing resources
• acting as discussion facilitators
• leading or co-leading talks or workshops

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