Resist • Dismantle • Reimagine
The Equity Studies Student Union (ESSU) is a student-run course union that represents the Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity program, supporting students in exploring course concepts while dealing with world issues. ESSU functions to promote the program as well as provide a voice and resource for our membership, individually and as a collective.
Our objectives are:
- To promote open and mutual educational opportunities and awareness of equity issues, locally and globally.
- To actively recognize and include the concerns of all marginalized and diverse groups and work toward a fully egalitarian and inclusive environment dealing with equity issues.
- To encourage and promote a sense of community, understanding and support among professors and undergraduate students of the Equity Studies program, and to provide a safe and comfortable meeting space for social gatherings and discussions.
- To provide a voice and resource for our membership, individually and as a collective.
- To promote activism among the student body and create links with equity groups
within the community.
- To represent the members of the ESSU on ASSU Council and on departmental
committees.
- To organize events that reflect the needs and wishes of the membership, and to
encourage participation and involvement in the organization of these events.
- To supervise the execution of the course evaluations in the program.
- To resist and dismantle colonial imperialist ideologies embedded in the academic realm and to strive towards creating accessible education for all (i.e. education that is based on merit not wealth, race, class, ethnicity, legal status, sex, gender, sexuality, disability, nationality or any identity marker).