Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility
Based on Concordia’s Code of Rights and Responsibilities, our mandate as a committee is to mediate and advocate for students in our department regarding issues of conflict in the Department, including, but not limited to race, gender, sexuality, class, ability and age.
Our mandate
The Advisory Committee on Equity and Diversity is formed of faculty and students.
Our mandate is as follows:
- To provide the Department with learning opportunities: to open conversations about issues of conflict with students, faculty, staff.
- To provide members of the Department and others with opportunities to better develop strategies for personal and systemic change.
- To consider and recommend possible solutions pertaining to conflict in our Department, in our curriculum, in our productions, and in the profession of theatre more generally.
- To consider and recommend possible solutions towards equity in the Department, in classrooms and on productions.
- To consider and recommend possible solutions to situations where issues related to gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, and age conflict are encountered in classrooms, in productions, and in relations with other students and with faculty.
- To provide forum opportunities as needed for consultation where both students and faculty can bring forward concerns about inequities.
- To consider grievances and make recommendations on a case-by-case basis.
- To build a resource base for academics and practitioners who wish to incorporate values and ethics of diversity and pluralism in their work.
Committee members
The current committee members are:
- Assistant Professor Moe Beitiks, Committee Chair
- Liz Valdez, Part Time Faculty Representative
The committee generally invites three student representatives a year; often one ACTT, one SCEN and one PERC student, but representation depends on community initiative, investment and interest.
If you are interested in becoming a student EDIA representative, please contact CAST at writetoedia@gmail.com.
Resolution Guide
The Committee has prepared a guide to help students resolve issues related to the Committee’s mandate. You can download the guide or find it in performance and design studios, the Department office, or the C.A.S.T. office.
If during approaching Steps one through five there is any discomfort speaking on your own to the said issue, we encourage you to invite either the Student Representatives of our committee or the Chair of the Equity and Diversity Committee, an Area Coordinator or an officer from the Ombuds or the Office of Rights and Responsibility to accompany you in the process.
For any of the steps outlined in the guide, we recommend if further clarity is needed, that you speak to the student representatives on the Equity and Diversity Committee.
Contact us
Students with questions related to the committee or the guide may contact the committee chair at or other committee members at their Concordia email addresses.
Meghan Moe Beitiks
Committee Chair
meghanmoe.beitiks@concordia.ca