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Strengthening the circle: empowering success for Indigenous learners through community-based assessments and reciprocal relationships
Meeting learners within their Indigenous communities to promote higher education is a powerful demonstration of respect and support.
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At the forefront of advancing resurgence and decolonization
Emerging Indigenous scholars embody the skills, knowledge and visionary leadership needed to address ongoing settler colonialism.
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Sharing circle: Our learnings from organizing an anti-colonial intercultural dialogue program
The goal was to create a safe space that helped international students recognize their entanglement with settler colonialism as uninvited visitors to this land.
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What role should universities play in revitalizing Indigenous languages?
Scholars in Calgary, Odanak and Edmundston have recently spearheaded research projects on the revitalization of Indigenous languages. But where do universities fit in, and how should they be contributing?
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Telling Indigenous stories through medicines of the land
Kwantlen U library collection features plant-based skin care items.
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Ethical considerations for the integration of Indigenous knowledge into open education resources
Consent, consultation and collaboration are key.
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Concordia launches program to increase Indigenous student graduation rate in engineering
The initiative is the latest bridging program at a Canadian university to address the under-representation of Indigenous students in STEM fields.
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The important role of Indigenous elders in the academy
We must ensure that elders are integrated into teaching and learning, not separated from it.
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Going beyond self-identification in recruiting Indigenous faculty
A few high-profile cases involving faculty members who may have falsely presented themselves as Indigenous are calling into question the practice of self-identification.
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A question of identity
Unpacking the challenge of Indigeneity in higher education.
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Quebec initiative is helping fund Indigenous women’s research while contributing to Joyce’s Principle
The second recipient of the Joyce Echaquan Scholarship is hoping to develop a new care model.
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Universities need to revisit their founding stories
Indigenous histories often go unrecognized in institutional university memories.
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Truth and reconciliation in 2022
As an academic community, we have a responsibility to teach this country’s history and invite cordial debate on Indigenous realities.
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New Indigenous leadership circle is set to advise presidents of the Tri-Councils
Impetus for the initiative, which also includes the Canada Foundation for Innovation, dates back to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action.
