Link Inclusion Lounge

Renison students value feeling safe, supported, and included in our community.

Our Link Inclusion Lounge is a space that invites all students to be who they are and to express themselves freely.

Our Principles of Inclusion encourage:

We recognize that all members of our community have unique needs
We are curious and lead collaboratively
We focus on the strength of every individual without assumptions
We encourage inclusion by navigating each interaction with respect, civility, and compassion
We respect everyone’s right to express and present themselves relative to their religion, culture, race, ability, ethnic background, sexual identity, and gender identity

Why a Link Inclusion Lounge?

In Winter 2024, the Student Experience and Housing team conducted consultation sessions with our Renison student community, focusing on students from equity-deserving communities. Feedback from these sessions highlighted the value of a space of inclusion where all students, including students from equity-deserving communities, can come to connect and access support.

We welcome you to visit our Renison: A road map for student belonging webpage to learn more about the history and process that has led to our Link Inclusion Lounge space.

Renison: A road map for student belonging cover

How well do students feel like they belong at Renison? With the support of student feedback from an online survey and consultation sessions, Renison Student Experience and Housing has developed a road map report to explore the manner in which we will be supporting students from equity-deserving communities in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

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Meet our Inclusion Coordinators!

Our Link Inclusion Lounge is also home to Renison's Inclusion Coordinators, Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) practicum students who are available Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays to support you! Our Inclusion Coordinators...

Facilitate events and opportunities to reinforce a welcoming and inclusive community for all students at Renison, including equity-deserving students
Provide peer support for students navigating student life as an equity-deserving student and assist with connecting students to campus and community services and resources

Inclusion Coordinators

Meet with Megan Halmai

Hometown: Campbellville, Ontario

Program: Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)

Fun Fact: I go camping every summer in Algonquin Park.

First-year tip: My first-year tip is to try to attend as many Renison events as possible, you'll be able to meet so many incredible new people.

Meet with Kieran White

Hometown: Kitchener, Ontario

Program: Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)

Fun Fact: I love to read, just as much as I love to look at and talk about books!

First-year Tip: Make time for yourself and the things you enjoy! Making a schedule can be very helpful in staying on track with your studies while carving out time to do the things that fill your cup!

Favourite Renison Memory: Studying with friends at the library, where we’d have some fun yet manage to get also get our work done.

Learn about the Moose Hide Campaign

Renison University College is proud to be an Ambassador Campus for the Moose Hide Campaign.

According to Sexual Violence at Canadian Universities, at least one in four women attending college or university in Canada will be sexually assaulted by the time they graduate. No one should be made to feel unsafe or experience abuse or violence on their university campus.

The Moose Hide Campaign began as an Indigenous-led grassroots movement in British Columbia to engage men and boys in ending violence towards women and children. It has since grown into a nationwide movement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians from local communities, First Nations, governments, schools, colleges/universities, police forces and many other organizations – all committed to taking action to end this violence.

Joining the Campaign promotes the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry Calls for Justice.

An Ambassador Campus designation demonstrates our ongoing commitment to reconciliation and addressing violence on campus. Institutions achieve the Moose Hide Campaign Ambassador Campus designation by demonstrating an ongoing commitment to reconciliation and addressing violence on campus.

How do we promote the Moose Hide Campaign at Renison?

The Moose Hide Campaign is promoted regularly across the Renison University College campus. Check out our educational booth displays regularly in the Renison Cafeteria to get your own Moose Hide pin - vegan pins also available!

As part of the Moose Hide Campaign, Renison also hosts the Renison FUMAR program. Since the 1970s, Renison has hosted a residence floor called "FUBAR", affectionately known as an acronym for "Fine Upstanding Boys at Renison". We want to take this messaging a step further by recognizing our collective role in raising men at Renison. Our FUMAR initiative stands for "Fine Upstanding Men at Renison".

Join the FUMAR initiative each month at their regular events designed for male-identifying students at Renison. Our goal is to bring male-identifying students together in community with a fun activity each month. During the activity, we'll also talk about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. This may include conversations about anything and everything from consent, gender-based violence, healthy masculinity, to the manosphere and looksmaxxing.

Why FUMAR?

The Moose Hide Campaign is specifically designed to engage men and boys in ending violence towards women and children. When Renison unveiled its support of the Moose Hide Campaign in 2024/2025, we integrated the Campaign into educational booth outreach in the Renison Cafeteria on topics like safe dating, Consent Week, and safer drinking outreach. However, approximately 90% of students who engaged at the booth were female-identifying or non-binary students. Very few male-identified students engaged in the conversation. We knew in Renison we needed to do more.

In 2025, we piloted our Moose Hide Male Allies program with two fantastic student facilitators. We recognized that students wanted to do more than just have conversations together, and so we are excited to re-vamp the program in Fall 2026 with Moose Hide FUMAR - conversations mixed with fun activities to bring guys together!