The three Niagara dailies (Niagara Falls Review, St. Catharines Standard and Welland Tribune) featured NC’s new Indigenous Education Strategy, Paddling Together, which outlines five priorities aimed at advancing Indigenous education and supporting the College’s ongoing commitment to Truth and Reconciliation.
The article explores the Strategy’s five priority areas — Community Relationships, Governance, Teaching and Learning, Indigenous Student Empowerment, and Organizational Culture and Systems – and some of the actions NC is taking to drive change in each area. It also highlights the two-year development process behind the Strategy and its connection to the principles of the Two Row Wampum, with the five priorities represented as canoes.
President Sean Kennedy is quoted from NC’s news release on the announcement: “Niagara College has been on an important journey to deepen our understanding of Indigenous perspectives and to center those perspectives in our work.”
The article also highlights the visual identity created for Paddling Together by Indigenous woodland-style artist Tsista Kennedy, whose artwork has been installed as a mural around the Indigenous Education Centre at the Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Read the Oct. 5 St. Catharines Standard article here.
