Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry. Could you repeat the question?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I remember it now. At UBC we do have the NITEP program, which is the native teacher education program. I'm sure it's mainly in English, but to answer your question, yes it would actually make a huge difference. I could see where it should be almost

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure. I'll look at our challenges, so the recommendations will be the opposite. Flexibility is number one. That's a huge challenge for faculty and staff to understand the challenges of indigenous students. There at times has to be flexibility to even the playing field. There ha

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the questions. Yes, the critical indigenous studies programs at UBC include first nations languages as one of the programs there. However, beyond that, as I said, we've created an indigenous strategic plan in which indigenizing the curriculum is one of the aspects

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sure. I'll answer very briefly. Thank you. The pandemic, for the university, brought the idea of this remoteness to the fore. What we had to learn—professors, staff and everyone—was that flexibility is key, more than it ever has been, with indigenous students. This was recogniz

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have sort of an informal, loose indigenous caucus for faculty. We also have another group that is for indigenous staff. At the Longhouse, we've just started having indigenous staff lunches, which is also faculty—faculty and staff. We just started it this year to do just what y

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I came to the University of British Columbia in 2018 and was able to be colead on their refreshed indigenous strategic plan. That process took two years. It was launched in 2020 and helped us get all the voices in. We spoke to indigenous students, faculty, staff, non-indigenous p

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the opportunity to appear before this committee today to speak on indigenous student experiences, retention and success at UBC, with a focus on the Vancouver campus where I'm stationed. How do students experience “place”? UBC is on the unceded, ancestral and tradit