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Queen’s University has updated its Harassment and Discrimination Prevention and Response Policy (H&D Policy) to include specific language responding to the anti-hate and anti-racism directive issued by the Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities late last year. The directive requires all publicly assisted colleges and universities to implement the directive requirements by Jan. 31, 2025. The Queen’s Board of Trustees approved the updated H&D Policy in December 2024.

The updated H&D Policy highlights the ways in which Queen’s addresses racism and hate, largely through education from units in the Office of the Vice-Principal (Culture, Equity, and Inclusion).

Under the Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024, the Ministry of Colleges and Universities will require colleges and universities to review their anti-racism and anti-hate policies at least once every five years and amend them as appropriate. With the elements of the new directive embedded in the H&D Policy, the university aims to ensure that existing and new measures continue to complement each other over time.

The H&D Policy was first approved by Queen’s Board of Trustees in 2021 to provide a central process to receive and address concerns about harassment and discrimination at the university. Amending the existing policy, rather than creating a new separate one, enables Queen’s to maintain one centralized process for addressing issues related to harassment and discrimination.

Learn more about the amendments to the H&D Policy on the University Secretariat’s website.