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 administrative support from the offices of the Vice President & Provost U of T and the Vice Principal Academic and Dean, University of Toronto Scarborough.
Would you like to join TIDE? Apply here.
Co-chairs
Maydianne Andrade
University Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Co-Chair, TIDE
Bryan Gaensler
Professor, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics & Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Co-Chair, TIDE
Staff
Staff Contributors
Eileen Egan-Lee
Faculty Development Administrator, Office of the Vice Principal Academic & Dean, UTSC
Loretta Ho
Program and Faculty Development Consultant, Office of the Vice President and Provost
Members
Aarthi Ashok
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Associate Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Department of Biological Sciences
(on leave)
Alexie Tcheuyap
Professor, Department of French & Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience
Alison Chasteen
Professor, Department of Psychology & Acting Associate Dean, Unit-Level Reviews, Faculty of Arts & Science
(on leave)
Alison Keith
Professor, Classics and Women's Studies & Director, Jackman Humanities Institute
(on leave)
Anthony Wensley
Associate Professor, Emeritus, Information Systems and Accounting, Department of Management
Bojana Stefanovic
Professor, Medical Biophysics
Christine Allen
Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Dwayne Benjamin
Professor, Economics & Vice Dean, Graduate Education, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Emmanuel Nikiema
Associate Professor, Department of French, Faculty of Arts & Science
Ernie Lam
Professor & Associate Dean (Graduate Education), Faculty of Dentistry
Fiona Rawle
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Associate Dean, Undergraduate, University of Toronto Mississauga
(on sabbatical)
France Gagnon
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Associate Dean, Research
Isabelle Aubert
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Jaris Swidrovich
Indigenous Engagement Lead & Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Julie MacArthur
Associate Professor, Historical Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Lachmi Singh
Director, Education Programs & Administrative Services & Director, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI), Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Lisa Sheinin
Clinical (MD) Adjunct Appt., Medicine
Nadia Alam
Clinical (MD) Adjunct Appt., Public Health
Nicole Laliberte
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Geography, Geomatics and Environment
(on leave)
Renée Hložek
Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Faculty of Arts & Science
Robert Gazzale
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream; Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics
Sarah Mayes-Tang
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream; Mathematics
Tom Coyle
Vice-Dean, Undergraduate Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and Associate Director, Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies