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BY CYNTHIA WESLEY-ESQUIMAUX | February 21 2023

We must ensure that elders are integrated into teaching and learning, not separated from it.

BY SHARON OOSTHOEK | January 11 2023

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.

BY CYNTHIA WESLEY-ESQUIMAUX | January 10 2023

Unpacking the challenge of Indigeneity in higher education.

BY ÉMÉLIE RIVARD-BOUDREAU | November 01 2022

The second recipient of the Joyce Echaquan Scholarship is hoping to develop a new care model.

BY THOMAS PEACE & CANDACE BRUNETTE-DEBASSIGE | September 30 2022

Indigenous histories often go unrecognized in institutional university memories.

BY CYNTHIA WESLEY-ESQUIMAUX | September 01 2022

As an academic community, we have a responsibility to teach this country’s history and invite cordial debate on Indigenous realities.

BY SHARON OOSTHOEK | July 15 2022

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.

BY UA/AU | June 21 2022

Indigenous artists are reclaiming space on university campuses, threading history and storytelling through creative works in a variety of mediums that enrich the student experience.

BY BECKY RYNOR | June 17 2022

The inaugural class of 23 students completed the joint program in Canadian common law and Indigenous legal orders this spring.

BY JENNIFER S. SIMPSON | May 11 2022

Institutions of higher learning are ideally places where there is deliberation and reflection on hard questions, and a shared grappling with the public good.

BY MICHAEL RANCIC | May 11 2022

The move signals ‘a new chapter,’ after years of grassroots advocacy, consultation and committee work.

BY RILEY YESNO | April 22 2022

University researchers add ‘one tool in the toolbox’ to help better understand the state of relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada.

BY HANNAH LIDDLE | April 18 2022

Authors hope to increase awareness of the impact of climate change on Indigenous peoples’ health.

BY MATTHEW HALLIDAY | February 25 2022

Sense of isolation during the pandemic spurred effort to unite senior Indigenous administrators across Canada’s universities.

BY JENNIFER S. SIMPSON | January 28 2022

The work of equity asks leaders to support movement toward justice, even when we cannot always foresee or predict the path forward.

BY CANDACE BRUNETTE-DEBASSIGE | January 11 2022

We must shift our conceptions of leadership beyond the confines of individualist, transactional and hierarchal notions toward more complex, relational and collectivist ways that recognize Indigenous nationhood and knowledges.

BY CHARLENE LEWIS-SUTHERLAND & SANIA HAMEED | November 24 2021

A recent CACUSS panel shed light on the realities that many racialized staff face.

BY RILEY YESNO | November 22 2021

The university is now seeking input from members of the community through Dec. 7.

BY JESSE POPP | October 29 2021

Many Indigenous scholars forge ahead to passionately contribute to systemic change; however, as requests mount, and there’s not enough time to go around, we are stretched incredibly thin.

BY JOHANNE JEAN & SOPHIE D’AMOURS | October 21 2021

An invitation to decolonize universities through collaboration.