As a Department of Politics we have an obligation not to replicate and sustain these exclusionary constructions in our systems, policies, practices and behaviour. Faculty, students and support staff should act to ensure a working milieu that is open and non-discriminatory.
Faculty have the responsibility to ensure a respectful learning environment.
Lack of respect and actual or perceived exclusion may take many forms and their existence should be determined on the basis of procedures that are consistent with the principles of natural justice and administrative due process. A respectful learning environment is created and maintained by faculty, students and staff through relationships between and among them and by their individual behaviours. Such an environment includes many behaviours both psychological and physical as well as those prohibitions explicitly noted below. Taken together, these behaviours constitute and characterize the environment. Teaching and Learning Environment Faculty are to ensure that they promote critical thinking in the classroom through the presentation of a variety of perspectives.