Voices of Diversity/Equity: Transforming University Curriculum is a training kit which grew out of the FES pilot project. A DVD with short video clips (one to eight minutes) and one longer piece (one hour) offers key moments of critical questionning, contradiction, and debate from the workshops. They can serve as catalysts for discussion in classrooms, in the professional development of teachers, in workshops with affirmative action officers or union equity committees, or in meetings with relevant committees and administrators concerned with practices and policies related to diversity and equity. A twenty-four page Users' Guide suggests questions and other activities to accompany the video clips and to stimulate their creative and collective use. A bibliography and York resources list are also included. The video clips are listed below with a sampling of the kinds of issues raised.

Clips on Class and Poverty

"If we think of the affirmative action policy on campus, it is quite accepted for us to talk about racial inequality or gender inequality, but it's not accepted or acceptable to talk about class inequality." - Tania Das Gupta, Atkinson Social Science

• A Question of Language (6.5 min) - How does academic language reflect class? For whom is it a barrier?
• Academia & Alienation (2 min) - In what ways does university education alienate students from their families and peers?

Clips on Disabilities

"Have we built an education system that speaks to the experiences of people with disabilities, makes use of the knowledge that circulates in universities - a knowledge that accounts for the diverse and unique standpoints of people with disabilities in our culture and society?" - Michael Bach, Canadian Association for Community Living

• Accommodating Disabilities (4 min) - As a student or faculty member with a disability, how can you make your needs known? As a faculty member, how can you rethink the way you offer support to students with disabilities?
• Viewpoint on Disabilities (3.5 min) - In what ways can we see the social construction of disabilities operating in the university?

Clips on Gender

"Poverty and racialization is often conflated with the gender position of women of colour who are rendered largely invisitble, not only within the academic project, but within society as a whole, within public policy, within government policy, within employment structures." - Punam Koshala, Graduate Program in Environmental Studies

• Privilege & Oppression (2.5 min) - How and why are we often unaware of both our privilege and our oppression?
• Power of the Researcher (5 min) - What research ethics could guide more equitable university/community relations?
• Parenting & Academia (2 min) - In what ways do academic schedules and expectations conflict with parenting responsibilities?

Clips on Sexual Diversity

"Sexuality, sexual diversity and gender diversity are power relations that have an enormous impact not only on social life in general but also on academic inquiry and dynamics of academic institutions and classrooms...It is not just that people may feel excluded, but that the whole knowledge system in which disciplines work are organized along those foundational assumptions of natural heterosexuality and natural gender dimorphism." - Cate Sandilands, Environmental Studies

• Exclusionary Assumptions (4 min) - How can we address diversity from within heteronormativity and Eurocentrism?
• Queering International Development (2.5 min) - How can a field such as International Development be challenged in terms of the assumptions it makes about gender and sexuality?
• Transgender Challenges (4 min) - How can teaching faculty become better oriented and prepared to support transgendered students?
• Community Partnerships (2 min) - Who sets the agenda in communityuniversity relations?

Clips on Race and Ethnicity

"Racialization and ethnicity are the products of years of prejudice that happens within society but also within institutions and that is often intersected by issues like classism. As a result in North America, we tend to take white skin and European culture as the standard and the norm, leading to other cultures and other skin colour becoming ethnicized with mostly negative meanings attached to these others." - Ilan Kapoor, Environmental Studies

• Rethinking Whiteness (7.5 min) - What classroom ethics can help students and faculty deal with issues of racism?
• Racism: Intellectual or Moral Issue? (3.5 min) - What are the particular challenges of addressing racism in an academic context?
• Creating New Knowledge (1 min) - What is the role of the professor in a process which sees the classroom as creating new knowledge?
• Aboriginal Ways of Knowing (60 min) - This tape presents the entire panel discussion on this subject, offering a contextualized introduction to key principles and practices of Aboriginal education.