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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it goes beyond the classroom. I think it goes to how we teach people and what we're teaching them. When we look at the Auditor General's “Report 5—Socio-economic Gaps on First Nations Reserves", we see that the graduation rate in 2016 was only 24% of students. That's wha

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are no cases that we're aware of, and since we've shut down our schools so there's no access to campuses we didn't have to provide any masks, but we did provide cultural supports when students needed them. If they needed sage or sweetgrass, we sent that to them, but in term

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, a lot of people have said that. That adjustment of not seeing people is worse for some people. We make sure that if we do identify someone who is in critical need we'll have counsellors and our student-at-risk and responsibilities officers reach out, and we will also refer t

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would add that what it allows students to do when they do go to school is the exploration of identity. Many students don't know who they are. They don't know where they have come from. There are some students who have status, but they don't know where they've come from. Our ce

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just briefly, we're going to have to really adjust what we do, so there are going to be more online presentations with elders or more online events. We'll make sure we're always available for somebody to call in more quickly.

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The impact of not having many indigenous students within the classroom is that, when they are in the classroom, they're usually the ones being called on to be almost the voice of all indigenous people. It creates an unreasonable burden on the student to speak truth to the discuss

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have our elder in residence program, which was successful in terms of bringing the culture to campus. Students will have access to an elder, and if they are far from their community, our elder reminds them of their own community. We do vigorous student engagement supports and

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's a whole list of things that need to be done. I think institutions are inherently colonial by nature. When we look at where education has come from, we see that it comes from the British and the Crown. When we look at education, we see that educational institutions have

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can speak on that. Certainly what I think the K-to-12 system has perpetuated is a lot of misinformation and stereotypes. From working in post-secondary education, I find that we're almost trying to re-educate people. A lot of this information should already be known about who i

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we can get there. I think once we find out how the summer goes, in July when we have some students back, we'll understand more how the social distancing will work. I think most of our programs will be online for the fall term. We're going to be preparing for the winter wi

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  At Sheridan, we completely shut down the school. All schools within a one-week span transitioned online. We had a transition of hundreds of programs online. I think this is where the learning curve comes into play for some students because they went from in-person learning to l

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is so critical. About 98% of the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve don't have access to proper Internet. If you do, it's usually about three or five megabytes per second. It's a shame that this reserve is not up north or not somewhere far off. It's close to the town of

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is so critical because it opens up another lens they can see it through, as students in 2020, as indigenous learners possibly coming from a reserve, as learners in an urban setting, meaning they are going to bring a different lens to that table. Therefore, I'd say that their v

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not aware of any right now because when that funding was announced, many of our students were already pretty much done. When that happened a lot of our students were trying to get home. Some students could not get home, as I mentioned, so they're still living here in Oakville

June 9th, 2020Committee meeting

Elijah Williams