Appointment of Dr. Jan Hare, Dean, Faculty of Education
It is our pleasure to announce that the UBC Board of Governors has accepted the President’s recommendation to appoint Dr. Jan Hare as the Dean of the Faculty of Education for a five-year term, commencing July 1, 2024. Dr. Hare, an Anishinaabe-kwe scholar and educator from the M’Chigeeng First Nation in northern Ontario, is a […]
Crossing the threshold
In a ceremony filled with culture and tradition, eight Indigenous medical students and two Indigenous midwifery students graduated from UBC’s Faculty of Medicine On May 21, Indigenous Elders and community members, alongside family members, friends, faculty and staff, gathered in the Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall of the UBC First Nations Longhouse to honour and celebrate the […]
Impact Story: Indigenous research and engagement in the time of reconciliation – Part 2
Universities have largely benefited from an extractive model of research on Indigenous communities. In decades past researchers would visit Indigenous communities to conduct their research, and publish their results afterwards — often without consulting with the community, providing a chance for review, or providing copies of the data or final publication to the community. This […]
Impact Story: Indigenous community-based research – Part 1
Universities have largely benefited from an extractive model of research on Indigenous communities. In decades past researchers would visit Indigenous communities to conduct their research, and publish their results afterwards — often without consulting with the community, providing a chance for review, or providing copies of the data or final publication to the community. This […]
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UBC Library digitizes Indigenous language dictionaries
As part of an ongoing effort by the UBC Library Digitization Centre and cIRcle, UBC Library is making Indigenous language dictionaries more accessible by digitizing these works and making them available through UBC Open Collections. “Within the province of British Columbia, there are 32 First Nations languages—eight are severely endangered and 22 are nearly extinct. […]
Susan Point artwork installed at UBC Sauder
UBC Sauder proudly unveiled a new art piece entitled “Cultural Guardians” by xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) artist Susan Point. Installed in UBC’s Henry Angus CPA Hall, the Cultural Guardians will reside in the heart of UBC’s Vancouver campus, located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, and will serve as a reminder of Sauder’s […]
Reconciliation, one keystroke at a time
A new font to typeset Salish languages is the result of a unique collaboration between UBC, Musqueam and Syilx What does reconciliation actually look like in practice? It’s often seen through policies, ceremonies or strategic plans. But in practice, it’s a process that unfolds slowly, through a whole lot of emails, phone calls, knowledge sharing […]