may conduct a” decolonial review” of all university rules.
The University of Alberta has hired a dean fellow in” Decolonizing Policies”, according to the university’s intellectual vice-president.
VP Verna Yiu noted the position is part of the school’s “institutional devotion to peace and decolonization” as seen in its” Braiding Past, Present and Future: University of Alberta Indigenous Strategic Plan“.
Nathalie Kermoal, a teacher of Native Studies at U of A, has begun a two-year expression in the new location and” will help in a variety of projects” including looking into “how career, promotion and merit practices may be aligned” with the school’s La plan, and the implementation of a “decolonizing review” of all U of A policies.
Kermoal ( pictured ) most recently was the recipient of a U of A Community Scholar Award for advocating Native American-based research and “furthering awareness and appreciation of]Native ] research, education, art and culture”.
Kermoal’s faculty page notes her research expertise lies in the areas of” Métis]Native ] rights and environmental issues”, the” History of Indigenous Political Thinking”,” Gender issues/Métis Women”, and” Contemporary Aboriginal Art”.
The above-linked U of A Indigenous Strategic Plan features a video message from Vice-Provost of Indigenous Programming and Research Florence Glanfield, who claims when she first arrived at the university almost 50 years ago as an undergrad math major, a faculty member told her” I did n’t think]Natives ] could do mathematics”.
Glanfield next notes the Strategic Plan is “important” because it is” trying to change the tale” of the school’s connection with the Indigenous community.
” The University is a colonial construction”, Glanfield says in the picture. The Strategic Plan, she adds, will “break down some of th]e ] colonial barriers” for indigenous people.
However over at U. Alberta’s Ontario-based cousin, the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Medicine is seeking someone for the placement of Associate Dean for Equity and Social Accountability.
Similar to U of A’s Kermoal, this applicant will improve the school’s La strategy and “decolonization and healing goals”.
The prospect also will work with the School of Medicine to “lead strategic initiatives and practices focused on capital, variety, addition, anti-racism, convenience, social responsibilities, social justice]… ] and community engagement”.
Also, the medical school is looking for” medical faculty leaders” regarding” Indigenous Health and Ways of Knowing” — which, according to others in the business world, are the similar to current technology.
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