CHREI develops instructional materials, guides and other practical tools to promote and support DEDI at York. Handouts from our workshops, which include links to sources, are available to the participants at the end of the sessions.
We also collaborate with partners across the York community in developing online modules, tools and resources for students, faculty and staff. If you have questions about integrating any of our modules and resources into your team's DEDI plan at YorkU, send us an email at chrwkshp@yorku.ca.
View a complete list of the resources on our website listed according to theme.
Accessible Guides
Accessible PDF Guides are available to download
Know Your Rights:
Resource Guides
These resource guides provide a succinct overview of various Human Rights issues and the applicable York policies.
Hate Propaganda: A Guide for Students, Faculty & Staff Accessible PDF (This guide is available in French)
Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Students, Faculty, & Staff Accessible PDF
Gender Expression/Gender Identity: A Guide for Students, Faculty, & Staff (Inclusive Language) Accessible PDF
Accommodating Disability: A Guide for Students, Faculty, & Staff Accessible PDF
Additional resources from Student Accessibility Services are available for and . See also: Accessibility Hub
Accommodating Creed (Religion): A Guide for Students, Faculty, & Staff Accessible PDF
Faculty Resource Guide: Teaching Students with Disabilities Accessible PDF
You can also visit the page on Filing Human Rights Complaints in this website.
Online Harassment Guide for Faculty & Staff
Students, staff, and faculty at York are working, learning, teaching, and collaborating online and in virtual spaces more and more.
Many forms of unacceptable behaviour, including personal harassment and harassment based on the grounds listed in the (which includes sexual harassment), can take place online much the same as they might take place in person.
This guide will assist staff and faculty members in understanding when workplace harassment protections apply, where those protections are codified, what type of harassment is at issue, and where to go for recourse.
Additional Guides
Ramadan 101
This resource serves as a guide for folks interested in learning more about Ramadan, one of the most significant days commemorated by Muslims. It provides useful tips on practising allyship as well as an overview of York's policies on Accommodation.
Guides de ressources en fran莽ais
Guide vers un fran莽ais plus inclusif par rapport au genre du Coll猫ge universitaire Glendon
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La propagande haineuse : Guide pour les 茅tudiants, les membres de la Facult茅 et le personnel
This guide is available in English.
Looking for specific information about YU Human Rights policies ? See: YU Human Rights Policies & Procedures
Additional Resources
2025 Featured Resources
Blackness at YU - A Guided Tour of Resources for Black students
This microsite documents the resources included in a guided tour that curated and led during Inclusion Week 2025. The resources and facilities appear in the order of the tour that took place on March 4, 2025.
DEDI in Research
Upcoming in June 2025: How can DEDI Make Research Impactful and Innovative? Watch this space for resources developed by the Education Team for the
Inclusion Lens
Planning an event? This Event Management Tool is designed to assist 快播视频 in engaging all peoples in events from planning, advertising, implementation to evaluation. It was developed by CHREI in partnership with the Lassonde School of Engineering.
The Human Rights Praxis Project E-Book
The eBook is an experiential education tool, collaboratively created by CHREI and .
This resource provides an opportunity to learn and apply skills such as empathy, civility, effective communication, critical thinking and emotional intelligence which are necessary in responding effectively to situations of discrimination.
Inclusion for whom? Housing and the cost of living at York: A Walking Tour of 快播视频
This website documents an alternative campus tour organized by the Human Rights and Health Equity Collective during Inclusion Week 2023. It reflects on the challenges to inclusion and community in the ongoing housing and cost of living crisis that impacts many Yok students.
Online Harassment: A Guide for Faculty & Staff
Overview
The Scope of York's Human Rights Policy
Faculty and staff members can still be considered to be acting in the course of their duties even when they are not physically present on campus.聽
You have options
If you believe you are experiencing harassment online or in virtual spaces, you have options for taking action to ensure the harassing behaviour ends and that York Community members are held accountable for their conduct or comments. Scroll and view some important basic information.
Examples of Harassment covered
This can include: remote teaching, whether by video, phone, message board, internet chat, or some other mode of communication; while corresponding with York Community members including: students, faculty, or staff, whether by email or another method, electronic or otherwise; during Zoom or Skype video meetings or calls with students, colleagues, or staff; while using Moodle or other similar online learning platforms; and at conferences or other off-campus events or meetings; while at working lunches or dinners.
York Community Members
The common feature of the examples listed is that there is some real connection to the faculty or staff member鈥檚 work for 快播视频 at the time and in the context when the alleged harassment occurred. The alleged harasser (the person(s) you believe is harassing you) must be a York Community member. A聽鈥淵ork Community member鈥聽is a broadly defined but generally refers to students, staff and faculty. There are other categories of people, who have special and unique relationships to York, that may also be covered by some or all of these policies.
Alleged behaviour by a Staff or Faculty Member
Option 1听鈥聽Occupational Health and Safety Act
罢丑别听聽addresses workplace harassment and violence.
Option 2听鈥 using the聽Human Rights Code
罢丑别听聽also addresses harassment (and discrimination) based on a protected identity or characteristics.
Option 3听鈥 through a Collective Agreement
Certain harassment concerns may also be addressed through the labour relations regime, as a grievance brought through the appropriate bargaining unit (where applicable). This applies to both personal harassment and聽Code颅-based harassment.
Alleged behavior by a student
If the person is a student, the聽聽oversees the聽聽which governs student conduct. OSCR can assist the staff or faculty member to engage the dispute resolution and/or complaint process under the聽Code.聽 All complaints about student conduct or comments, whether聽Code-based or not (with the exception of sexual harassment), begin with OSCR.
Book a consultation with us.
快播视频 is a large institution with a broad and diverse community of staff, students, and faculty.聽 There are a number of policies and procedures which have been developed to ensure the needs of this community are met and to comply with legislative requirements.聽This network of policies can appear confusing or daunting when someone is faced with a harassing situation. CHREI is available for confidential consultations to provide summary advice and information regarding the workplace harassment protections and procedures in place at 快播视频.