Chancellor Discussion with the Alumni Association
Join an open discussion with the Emily Carr University Alumni Association on what interview questions will be posed to candidates for the Chancellor role at ECU.
Please join us this Friday for a discussion hosted by an allied group of Staff, Faculty, Students and Alumni aimed to uncover the important questions we want to ask potential candidates for the Chancellor role at Emily Carr. This new Chancellor is coming into our school at a time of change and transformation. As university members, we have the oppurtunity to help to inspire and create the purpose for this role, and shape how this person will interface with the various parts of the university and the community at large.
This space is not to discuss the Chancellor search specifically, but to get to the bottom of what's important as we emerge from worldwide pandemic. As we look forward to relating to each other physically again and to experiencing our environment in new ways, what will we prioritize and how will we spend our time on campus? The university is not an island, even if it seems like that at times. It has a cause and effect relationship with the city that needs to be rekindled after its relocation to Great Northern Way. How might we re-situate our school on these unceded territories and play a meaningful and caring role in the culture and community on and off campus?
Bring your imagination, your creativity, and your critical listening and thinking. This is a space where new connections can be formed, synergies can be made. Collectively we can produce art through open dialogue, mutual respect and a commitment to shared outcomes.
The Emily Carr Alumni Association is committed to activating this space as a means to enable important discussions that relate to the Emily Carr Community at large. This work is part of the questions we are asking ourselves about the role our association plays within at Emily Carr. This space has been requested by the ECU community and we, the Alumni Association, are supporting it – to see where it goes and what comes up as a means to guide us forward.
- What could the Chancellor help to CREATE in an art University that is at the heart of Vancouver on unceded ancestral homelands of the Tsleil-Waututh people?
- How could a Chancellor BE for a University in a time that demands change and transformation as we emerge from a worldwide pandemic that forced us to reconfigure how we learn and work together?
- What could the Chancellor DO that could have the most impact in the challenges and opportunities we face today as students, staff, faculty and alumni?
- What ACTIONS could a Chancellor champion towards Decolonization, Anti-Racism and inclusion that support the health and wellbeing of the Emily Carr Community?
- How might the Chancellor INFLUENCE government to recognize and support the important role an arts university plays in the culture and community of the places we live and work across the province?