Our History
The President’s Advisory Committee on Building an Inclusive Community (PACBIC) was established at McMaster in 2002 to contribute to the third goal of the university’s then new strategic plan: ‘to build an inclusive community with a shared purpose’ (Refining Directions, 2002).
Read more about the President’s Advisory Committee on Building an Inclusive Commuity
UPCOMING PACBIC MEETING: April 26, 2023 (virtual)
SAVE THE DATE!
PACBIC Meeting on Wednesday April 26, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. to be held virtually.
All member of McMaster community are welcome to attend. Please email: pacbic@mcmaster.ca if you would like to attend.
PACBIC Meetings (Open to the McMaster community)
Please note that all members of the campus community are welcome to attend PACBIC meetings and participate in the working groups.
PACBIC Agenda and Minutes
2021-2022
Information Box Group
October 20, 2021 PACBIC Meeting Read Minutes
Meeting will be held virtually.
November 30, 2021 PACBIC Meeting
Meeting will be held virtually.
January 18, 2022 PACBIC Meeting
CANCELLED
March 22, 2022 PACBIC Meeting
Meeting location TBD
April 27, 2022 PACBIC Meeting
Meeting location TBD
Agenda and Minutes for 2020-2021
Due to COVID-19, all meetings were held virtually
Information Box Group
April 1, 2021 PACBIC Meeting Read Minutes
Meeting was held virtually due to COVID-19
February 11, 2021 PACBIC Meeting Read Minutes
Meeting was held virtually due to COVID-19
November 11, 2020 PACBIC Meeting Read Minutes
Meetings were held virtually due to COVID-19
Agenda and Minutes for previous meetings
2019
October 2
November 14
December 12 (cancelled)
2020
January 14
February 5
April 2 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
May 5 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2018
October 4
November 8
2019
January 15
February 5
March 5
April 4
May 7
2018
January 25
February 15
March 27
April 20
May 31
Resources
Coming Soon!
PACBIC Annual Reports to the Community
PACBIC’s 2021 Reflections and Recommendations
This report reflects on the work accomplished by PACBIC in the 2021/22 academic year and highlights recommendations members have elevated for priority attention in the 2022/23 academic year.
This past year, in addition to the initiatives advanced through the Working Groups, the PACBIC undertook to renew the Statement on Building an Inclusive Community with a Shared Purpose – an important statement of the university’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. In addition to engaging the campus community and the appropriate governance processes to finalize updates to this Statement, the PACBIC will focus on the following recommended priorities through the next academic year.
- Continue to enhance supports and spaces that centre the 2STLGBQIA+ community, with particular attention to the diversity of this community and its intersections with race, disability, neurodiversity, Indigeneity, faith/spirituality, and class.
- Continue to enhance structures, resources, and opportunities for collaboration across equity-denied/deserving communities to address issues at the intersection of multiple systemic inequities.
- Continue to bring voice to vigilant, responsive, and proactive support for all members of the McMaster community during the transition back to in-person work and learning, with particular attention to the specific experiences, concerns, and needs of staff, students, and faculty from historically marginalized communities.
- Continue to amplify the accessibility and disability inclusion training, education imperatives, opportunities for students, faculty, and staff and explore more programming grounded in and contributing to critical disability studies.
- Continue to advocate for robust supports for Black students, faculty, and staff, aligned with McMaster’s pledge advance the recommendations of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion. Continue to enhance all hiring practice to improved recruitment of Black Indigenous and Racialized faculty and staff.