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ACD 2025 Breakout Session

Evaluating with Intention: Relationship-Centred Approaches to Program Assessment
AM & PM Session — An interactive session on program evaluation, with a heavy emphasis on the importance of relationships as a key element of access assessment work. Through hands-on engagement with our proven evaluation tools, participants will explore how intentional program design can help foster meaningful community partnerships and deepen their impact. The session […]
Brick by Brick: Building (Y)our Access Story
AM & PM Session — LEGO Serious Play is a facilitation technique that focuses on sharing your experiences through the use of LEGO. Each person creates stories through their models, creatively expressing themselves as you answer open-ended questions. You will think with your hands, sharing ideas that resonate the most with you. No LEGO building […]
A Grassroots Approach to Access through Outreach: “Linking Laboratories to Curriculum in STEM (LinC STEM)
AM & PM Session — Although STEM education is an important part of school curricula, more than 50% of Canadian students drop math and science in senior high school. This is exacerbated for Black, Indigenous, Queer, low SES, and English-language learning students who are disproportionately “counselled” into applied courses that limit their post-secondary education opportunities. […]
Support, Engage, Experience University of Toronto Mississauga (SEE UTM) – Collaborative Approach to Access Programming
AM Session — Contemporary universities are places where student identities converge within complex historical notions of community. SEE UTM was created to disrupt disparities in access to higher education for historically underrepresented students in the Peel Region. An intra-institutional and inter-institutional collaborative approach to developing the program included internal units such as student recruitment and […]
Rooted in Relationships: Building A Strong Foundation for Partnerships
AM Session — Community Partnerships & Engagement at U of T Scarborough invites you to a dynamic, interactive session on U of T Scarborough’s Partnership & Engagement Framework—a grounding model that demonstrates how we build relationships with internal and external partners across the tri-campus community and beyond.   The Framework envisions partnerships as fluid, reciprocal, and […]
Indigenous Access Days: Combining Traditional Knowledge and Western Education
PM Session — This presentation will give an insight to the APUF funded initiative; Indigenous Access Days which gives Indigenous students a chance to experience a university campus while becoming familiar with the supports and services available at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). As Western post-secondary institutions have historically been a site of exploitation […]
Supporting Neurodivergent Students in Postsecondary Institutions: Creating Opportunities for Community, Skill Development, and Access
PM Session: A student’s ability to integrate themselves into their postsecondary community and find a sense of belonging can often be difficult; this can be particularly challenging for neurodivergent students. Neurodivergent students may struggle to navigate social interactions with their peers and/or mentors and to form and maintain meaningful relationships on campus, impacting their postsecondary […]