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UBC school of social work equity and diversity strategic plan: A compilation of case studies 31 Work for many years. The Inner-City program, Thompson Program, and the Distance Education Initiative are examples of this commitment. The University of Manitoba, Faculty of Social Work Equity Plan was created through the Faculty’s Educational Equity Committee and Equity Initiative in June, 2006. The intent of the Equity Plan is to provide the basis for the continued development and institutionalization of policies and practices which support a faculty wide strategy which embraces equality, inclusion and accessibility. The purposes of the Equity Plan are: 1. To recognize the existence and effects of current social inequities and past disentitlements and to redress these through specific and measurable strategies. 2. To ensure that the Faculty is in every instance meeting or exceeding the standards and guidelines set out in the CASSW Accreditation Standards and Educational Policy Statements, particularly with reference to diversity. 3. To ensure that the Faculty offers an educational program that enables graduates to engage in professional action to remove obstacles to social functioning and to eliminate all unjust forms of inequality. 4. To ensure that the rights and freedoms of all individuals as guaranteed under the Manitoba Human Rights Code and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are protected and promoted in all aspects of the program. (University of Manitoba, Faculty of Social Work, Educational Equity Committee, 2006.) Student Outreach, Admission, and Support In the early 1990’s the most significant changes regarding equity at the Faculty of Social Work involved admission criteria. The Inner-City Social Work Program, an inner-city extension of the Faculty of Social Work on the Fort Garry Campus, was launched to make the
UBC school of social work equity and diversity strategic plan: A compilation of case studies 32 Faculty more accessible. This BSW program is an Access program, designed to support students who have traditionally faced systemic barriers common to inner-city life experiences; such as poverty, racism, school failure, and marginalization, all factors preventing accessibility to postsecondary education. Other structural barriers acknowledged by the Faculty of Social Work include racism, English as a second language, social class, breaking the cycle of poverty, having a history of being a child in care, Indigenous students living on reserves (access and quality of education), single mothers (barriers such as finding affordable childcare). The Inner-City Program addresses more of these barriers than the mainstream program on Fort Gary campus. For example, there is now a daycare at the Inner-City Program campus to remove the barrier of childcare for single mothers. The Inner-City Program has a history of 30 years in the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Social Work. This program provides a support network designed to increase student success. This program recruits mature students with a Grade Point Average’s lower than the standard admission criteria. With the educational equity admission criteria, students can still apply and be admitted with GPA’s lower than 3.0; for example, between 2.5 – 2.99 (the standard admission criteria is a GPA of 3.0 or higher). Applicants for both the BSW and MSW programs can identify as being in more than one priority group. There is strong support for these students. For example, they have longer terms and admission is through interview (the faculty looks at people who are active in, and committed to working in the community, but due to structural barriers they could not enter the university). Major foci are academic and personal supports. These include an extensive orientation to university expectations, a course on study skills and exam preparation, individualized academic advising and personal counselling. Candidates for the program must have a
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