About The Project

Supported by the Equity Enhancement Fund at UBC Okanagan, the RESPECT magazine is a digital space coordinated and edited by students.

The objective of this interdisciplinary project is to plan and produce a student-facing and UBC student-run e-magazine titled, RESPECT that publishes their understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues as essays, interviews, artwork, photographs, multimodal, and interactive presentations to enhance UBC’s Inclusive Action Plan (IAP). By promoting conversations around sensitive topics that are current and impactful, this e-magazine will develop opportunities for engagement, development of ideas, individual and shared understanding with fellow UBC students and the community at large.

RESPECT magazine is an Educational Leadership project as it informs the teaching and learning process at UBC. It is an example of immersive learning for students who are project coordinators and part of the editorial team as well as contributors who choose to go above and beyond their classrooms to share informed perspective with diverse stakeholders. It is experiential in nature as the team of instructors and students have created a digital platform and a dialogic space for EDI matters which will allow reflection in this area and generate ideas to inform the challenges that face all of us.

RESPECT is also an open educational resource (OER) that hopes to prepare UBC students to not only run an open access publication but also share their “perspectives on the inclusiveness of their learning experiences” (IAP, Goal 4) and network with peer groups and EDI scholars. Representation of student voice in the published texts will advance learning opportunities in EDI as instructors from multiple disciplines can direct course learning goals towards, for instance, researching community needs and sharing of cross-cultural experiences.

Image: Public Art installation at UBC Okanagan by Les Louis (more information here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjC0XmlvWME)
Photo by UBC Okanagan Communications & Marketing

Land Acknowledgement

The project and editorial team members respectfully acknowledge that their work takes place on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Syilx people.

The project and editorial team members of RESPECT would also like to acknowledge that UBC has two main campuses that are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xwmə0– kwəyˇəm (Musqueam) and Syilx (Okanagan) peoples, and that UBC’s activities take place on Indigenous lands throughout British Columbia and beyond.

You can explore the following resources to learn more on Indigenous peoples, engagement, and territorial acknowledgement.

CAUT (2021). CAUT Guide to Acknowledging Traditional Territory. Ottawa: Canadian Association of University Teachers. https://www.caut.ca/docs/default-source/professional-advice/list—territorial-acknowledgement-by-province.pdf?sfvrsn=12

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. (2021, December 8). Indigenous peoples and lands. Government of Canada. Retrieved February 18, 2022, from https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1605796533652/1605796625692

UBC Okanagan Campus (2022). Indigenous Engagement. Okanagan: University of British Columbia. Retrieved February 18, 2022, from https://ok.ubc.ca/about/indigenous-engagement/

Creative Commons License

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes only.

BY: Credit must be given to you, the creator.

NC: Only noncommercial use of your work is permitted. Noncommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.

ND: No derivatives or adaptations of your work are permitted.

Notes on Attribution

When referring to the magazine use the following citation information:

RESPECT Magazine © 2022 by Anita Chaudhuri and Rishma Chooniedass is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

2. When referring to a specific contributor/ text use the following citation information:

___Name of Contribution___ in RESPECT Magazine © 2022 by ___Name of Author(s)___ is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/