{"id":87430,"date":"2023-08-23T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=87430"},"modified":"2023-08-23T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:43:13","slug":"spaces-new-dates-available-for-some-employee-focus-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/08\/spaces-new-dates-available-for-some-employee-focus-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaces, new dates available for some employee focus groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spaces remain available in a number of employee focus groups that will help inform Brock\u2019s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/08\/focus-groups-to-inform-upcoming-equity-census-and-edi-strategy\/\">Equity Census and Employee Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While most groups are now full, the following sessions, some of which are on new dates, have availability:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Members of First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit communities (staff): Sept. 6, 10 to 11 a.m.<\/li>\n<li>Members of First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit communities (faculty): Sept. 21, 10 to 11 a.m.<\/li>\n<li>Persons with disabilities (faculty): Sept. 11, 3 to 4 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Members of Black communities (faculty) \u2014 Sept. 15, 2 to 3 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In alignment with Brock\u2019s strategic priority of fostering a culture of inclusivity, accessibility, reconciliation and decolonization, the University organized open focus groups as well as identity-specific focus groups that faculty and staff can self-select to participate in.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of focus groups is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/human-resources\/equity-census\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Equity Census web page<\/a>, where Brock employees can also sign up for the remaining sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will be contacted directly with meeting details by consultants MNP, and interview guides will be sent in advance of the focus group sessions.<\/p>\n<p>What is shared with MNP will remain anonymous and confidential.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the Equity Census will be provided in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaces remain available in a number of employee focus groups that will help inform Brock\u2019s upcoming Equity Census and Employee Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,7,3319,1,4],"tags":[12826,12825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87431,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87430\/revisions\/87431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}