Dear Students:

We are writing you today to request your support in participating for a research study examining the experience of multiply-marginalized students on campus.

Emerging from a gap in the literature on the climate of marginalized students on campus, this study has two primary objectives:

1. To analyze how equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) discourses attend to intersectionality as means to address the problem of social and systemic oppression on university campuses. 2. To identify how EDI discourses attend to the issue of physical space, and the extent to which campus geography both reflects and contributes to the experience of oppression among multiply-marginalized students.

Our aim is to recruit 10-15 multiply-marginalized students on campus to share their experiences and opinions on a host of questions ranging from student experience to campus spaces. We also ask the participants to describe their inclusion/exclusion experiences on the campus map. We hope to uncover ways to make improvements to EDI practices through this research project.

We will certainly protect the confidentiality of all participants and have received ethics approval from the Education/Nursing Research Ethics Board at the University of Manitoba to conduct this study. If you would like a detailed copy of the study description, please let us know. We would be happy to provide this to you.

If you had concerns about the ethics of this research study, you are welcome to contact us or the Human Ethics Coordinator at 204-474-7122 or by email at: humanethics@umanitoba.camailto:humanethics@umanitoba.ca.

Please contact Chris Yendt (mapping.project@umanitoba.camailto:mapping.project@umanitoba.ca) if you have questions or would like to participate. Qualifying students are entitled to a $40 gift card for their participation in this research project.

We look forward to sharing the results with you when this project is complete.

Regards,

Robert Mizzi and Chris Yendt Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba