Status of Women, Diversity and Equity Action Committee
If you would like to join the SWDEAC, please contact the WUFA office at wufa@uwindsor.ca
SWDEAC 2024-2025
Vicki Jay-Leung, Chair, Library
Rajesh Seth, VP SWDE, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Pierre Boulos, President ex officio, CTL
Zareen Amtul, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Natalie Bownes, Nursing
Pardeep Jasra, School of the Environment
Annie Kavanagh, Library
Tranum Kaur, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Brandi Lucier, Women’s & Gender Studies
Rong Luo, Library
Sharon Munro, Library
Kristina Nikolova, School of Social Work
Padma Ravi, Nursing
Amelia Ritchie, Library
Shuzhen Zhao, Library
SWDEAC Newsletter to the Membership
Click on the following links to access SWDEAC's monthly newsletters
Employment Equity Coordinating Committee (EECC)
The Employment Equity Coordinating Committee is a body which implements employment equity at the University of Windsor. The committee is made up of representatives from each bargaining unit on campus and an equal number of representatives from the administration; there is one rep from WUFA and one rep appointed by the SWDEAC (totaling 2 reps from WUFA). The committee meets approximately four times in each academic year. The committee works to ensure fair, equitable and barrier-free employment practices in accordance with the Employment Equity Act and its Regulations.
2024 - 2025 WUFA representatives on EECC
Rong Luo, SWDEAC representative
Vicki Jay Leung, WUFA representative
Review Committee on Employment Equity (RCEE)
The Review Committee on Employment Equity shall be response for identifying where there is serious under-representation of members of the designated groups in any AAU and/or Library. The RCEE is also responsible for recommending reasonable goals and timetables for hiring by any AAU and/or Library where serious under-representation of members of the designated groups exists. The RCEE shall consist of two (2) persons appointed by the University, and two (2) persons from the membership of the Faculty Association appointed by the President of the Faculty Association. At least one representative shall be a member of the SWDEAC.
2024 - 2025 WUFA representatives on RCEE
Vicki Jay Leung, SWDEAC representative
Yasser Alginahi, WUFA representative
Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award 2024 - Call for Nominations
The Mary Lou Dietz Equity Award is a prestigious award that was established to honour the memory of Mary Lou Dietz. The Windsor University Faculty Association’s Status of Women, Diversity and Equity Action Committee bestows the award each year to honour an individual who demonstrates leadership through their contributions to creating a climate of equity, diversity and inclusion on campus. Nominations for the award may be submitted by Faculty, Staff, Administration, Corporations, Tribunals, Student Groups or any other interested parties or individuals.
Click on the following link for The Award Nomination Form and Criteria .
Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award
This award is given by the University of Windsor Faculty Association in honour of Mary Lou Dietz, BA. MA. PhD., who was a faculty member and Department Head of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Windsor. Dr. Dietz served on WUFA's Executive and council numerous times. In 1972 she lobbied for and became a founding member of WUFA's Status of Women Committee. Dr. Dietz helped to establish an executive position of Vice-President, Women's Issues within the faculty association and was the first person elected to this office. Dr. Dietz was involved in collective bargaining as a member of the Contract Committee and the Negotiating Committee, and she was Chief Negotiator in the year that our pay anomaly fund for women was established. In 1994, Mary Lou Dietz was awarded the CAUT Sarah Shorten Award, in recognition of her outstanding achievements in the promotion of the advancement of women in Canadian universities and colleges. She passed away December 29, 2008.
Previous Recipients
2024 - Dr. Charlene Senn, Department of Psychology and Interdisciplinary & Critical Studies
2023 - Dr. Tricia Carmichael, Department of Chemistry & Biochamistry
2023 - Dr. Barbara Thomas, Faculty of Nursing
2022 - Dr. Richard Douglass-Chin, Department of English/Women's & Gender Studies (Declined)
2021 - The 2020 award presentation was held no call for nominations in 2021 due to COVID-19
2020 - Dr. Catherine Hundleby, Philosophy
2019 - Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo, Psychology
2018 - Dr. Laverne Jacobs, Faculty of Law
2017 - Dr. Victoria Paraschak, Human Kinetics
2016 - Dr. Anne Forrest, Women's and Gender Studies
2015 - Dr. Andrew Allen, Faculty of Education
2014 - Dr. Lynda D. Corkum, Faculty of Science
2013 - Dr. Richard Moon, Faculty of Law
2012 - Dr. Angela Sodan, Faculty of Computer Science
2011 - Dr. Margery J. Holman, Faculty of Human Kinetics
2010 - removed by request
