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King's is committed to the care of the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. Our equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization (EDID) initiatives are part of our commitment to these beliefs, and to you.
At King’s, you will be part of our strong community – a community diverse in beliefs, colour, gender expression, backgrounds. We welcome you to be part of our commitment to all members of our community, a commitment to recognizing, engaging and celebrating all of us, and building an equitable, diverse and inclusionary King’s. You can be part of this important work. You can join one of our student groups, like the 2SLGBTQIA+ or BIPOC support groups, as a member of those communities or an ally, or educate yourself at a lecture or workshop. King’s is a place where you can flourish.
King's has a consultant available to all for EDID issues and concerns; you can reach Jen Slay by email. EDID resources are available to members of the King's community on myKing's.
Land acknowledgments are intended to inspire us to take action to support Indigenous communities, to increase the visibility of Indigenous People and to provide space for Indigenous voices to be heard. At King’s University, we are taking steps to reconcile and build positive relationships.
One step is to recognize and acknowledge that our campus at King’s University is situated on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Chonnonton Peoples, all of whom have longstanding relationships to the land of Southwestern Ontario and the City of London. The First Nations communities of our local area include Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Oneida Nation of the Thames, and Munsee Delaware Nation. In our region, there are eleven First Nations communities, as well as a growing Indigenous urban population. King’s University values the significant historical and contemporary contributions of local and regional First Nations, and all of the Original Peoples of the Turtle Island (also known as North America).
King’s honours the rich cultural and natural landscape our buildings and spaces are a part of and the connection Indigenous Peoples have to the land. In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge our responsibility to address past and present injustices and provide space for Traditional Knowledge and worldviews to shape the landscape of Turtle Island. We are trying to be intentional in our commitment to learning Indigenous ways of knowing, in our recruitment of Indigenous students, faculty and staff, in creating safer spaces for our Indigenous community members.
For our alumni, our current students, prospective students, and King’s community, we encourage you to also use intentionality in learning and informing yourself about the traditional lands, treaties, history, and cultures of the Indigenous People local to our region.
Pronunciation guide
Anishinaabek: Ah-nish-in-a-bek
Haudenosaunee: Ho-den-no-show-nee
Lūnaapéewak: Len-ah-pay-wuk
Chonnonton: Chun-ongk-ton
The common good of society depends upon the search for knowledge and its free exposition. Academic freedom is recognized by King's as essential to the life and functioning of the University as an institution of higher learning and as a centre for research and scholarship. Academic freedom does not imply neutrality on the part of the individual. Rather, it is academic freedom that makes commitment possible. The right to academic freedom carries with it the duty to use that freedom in a responsible way in the instruction of students, in the production of scholarly work, and the efficient functioning of the University. All members of the faculty have a responsibility to promote or at least respect the Catholic identity of King's.
All faculty members are entitled to carry out their research and publish its results; to teach; to employ a pedagogical style of their choice; to be creative; to select, acquire, disseminate, and use documents of their choice in the exercise of their professional activities; and to criticize the University and the Faculty Association in a responsible way, irrespective of any prescribed doctrine and free from any and all institutional censorship. Faculty members shall not be hindered or impeded in any way by the employer or the Faculty Association in exercising their contractual rights as members of the University community or legal rights as citizens of the community at large, nor shall they suffer any penalties because of the exercise of such legal rights. Finally, faculty members have the right to cite affiliation with and title at King’s University College when exercising their rights of action or expression. They shall, however, endeavour to ensure that their actions or expressions are not interpreted as representing the official position of King’s University College.