Year 2 Implementation Plan for the UPEI Action Plan shared with community

The following message was issued by email to UPEI students, staff and faculty on behalf of the UPEI Board of Governors and Office of the President on May 1, 2025.

Dear UPEI Community,

We are pleased to share the Year 2 Implementation Plan for the UPEI Action Plan: Building a Culture of Trust, Safety, and Inclusion on the upei.ca website.  

We have completed Year 0 and Year 1, and have engaged our external auditor, Deloitte Canada, to review the work completed. Year 0 and Year 1 included a great deal of capacity building in the form of creating and populating new offices, creating communication pathways, developing and replacing policies. This foundational work will support our goal of cultural change.

Thank you to Kate Richard for coordinating the approximately 240 items comprising Year 1, and the 20 implementation leads who completed those items. Thank you to everyone for completing the items and collecting the evidence that will be examined by our auditors.

We remain committed to ensuring that the completed items become part of the fabric of the University, and not simply a checklist of tasks done. We continue to appeal to all of you, all members of the community, to support the goals and intent of the Action Plan, to make UPEI a better place, a place where people can thrive, and reach their potential as learners, students, scholars, researchers, staff, faculty, managers, and administrators. Every person is an important part of the UPEI culture.

Sincerely,

Shannon MacDonald, FCA, CPA, ICD.D (she/her)
Chair, UPEI Board of Governors

Wendy M. Rodgers, Ph.D. (she/her)
President and Vice-Chancellor