Share your Experience

This form is a part of WUSA’s broader advocacy initiatives, aiming to enhance campus life for marginalized groups at Waterloo.

When you share your experiences of feeling unsafe, unwelcome, or marginalized, it helps us to develop informed policies and practices that benefit all community members. By strengthening our advocacy efforts, we strive to make the campus environment safer and more inclusive.

Contact Information:

While this form remains anonymous, you now have the option to provide your name and email. We will only follow up when necessary. If you choose to remain anonymous, your submission will still contribute to our research and advocacy initiatives, however, we will be unable to follow up or further support.

De-identified or aggregated details may be shared with advocacy partners, including EDI-R and other relevant campus units. If your safety and well-being are at risk, your contact information may also be shared with relevant campus partners.

Need support?

If you are seeking formal and/or individual trauma-informed support for your specific incident, please consider the following: 

  • If your safety is immediately threatened, call the police at 911 or special constable service at 519-888-4911

  • If you have experienced hate on campus, you can email gethelp@uwaterloo.ca

  • If you would like to make a formal complaint about another individual or campus (academic or non-academic allegation), please read Policy 71 and/or Policy 33, and contact your Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies.

  • For information and/or support on university policies and procedures, please contact your faculty’s Associate Dean or the Secretariat.

  • For support on intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and/or sexual harassment contact the Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO) office on campus.

  • For support relating to various different personal identities, contact the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Anti-racism (EDI-R) and/or the Indigenous Relations Office.

Frequently Asked Questions

It is encouraged that instances of equity-related injustice are communicated through the WUSA
Incident Report Form to help inform broader advocacy on the matter. Some examples are instances of:
  • Sexism
  • Racism
  • Transphobia
  • Homophobia
  • Islamophobia
  • Ableism
  • Xenophobia
  • Antisemitism
This form provides WUSA information to support broader advocacy efforts in order to improve the experience for marginalized folks on campus.
If you are also seeking formal and/or individual trauma-informed support for your specific incident, please refer to the form created by the University of Waterloo Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Anti-racism or contact the Indigenous Relations Office if relevant.
Peer Support and other supports can be found at any of these student-run services:

This form is designed to be anonymous to protect your privacy. However, if you choose to provide your contact information for follow-up, your email will be accessible to WUSA’s IT and authorized personnel who manage this form. These individuals are bound by strict confidentiality to safeguard your sensitive information. Where data is recorded for research purposes, your personal information will not be included. Only if your safety and well-being are at risk will we share your information with relevant campus partners.

Providing your name and email is optional. If you do not include those details, your submission will remain anonymous, and we will be unable to reach out to you for follow-up or further support.

Upon submission of the WUSA Incident Report Form, the form administrator will allow for the parties with whom you have provided consent to access a copy of the form. The subject matter will be used to facilitate broader advocacy with other relevant parties. Mobilization for broader advocacy on equity issues raised by the incident report forms could involve but are not limited to the following
stakeholders:
  • Manager, Advocacy and Stakeholder Relations
  • WUSA Board of Directors
  • WUSA student-run services such as RAISE, Women’s Centre, and Glow
  • Members of the Human Rights, Equity And Inclusion Office
  • Other stakeholders, such as Faculty Deans, AccessAbility Services, and/or additional campus units.
Further questions regarding this form can be directed to the form administrator.

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