Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan)
CICan is the national and international voice of Canada’s largest post-secondary education network. It advocates, builds capacity, and drives knowledge to strengthen Canada’s publicly supported colleges, institutes, CEGEPs, and polytechnics. With more than 95% of Canadians and 86% of Indigenous communities living within 50 km of a member institution, thanks to its extensive reach around the globe, CICan works to future-proof communities in Canada and abroad.
We respectfully acknowledge that CICan’s offices in Ottawa are located on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation.
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Indigenous Institutes Consortium (IIC)
The IIC represents the collective and collaborative efforts of seven Indigenous-owned and operated education and training institutions across Ontario. Since 1994, the IIC has successfully raised the awareness and profiles of Member Indigenous institutions, learners, and communities. The IIC played a key role in the establishment of Ontario’s Indigenous Institutes Act in 2017.
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Streams
Approaches to Addressing the Indigenous Teacher and Knowledge Resources Shortages in PSE Programming
- Addressing barriers to teacher education for Indigenous learners
- Indigenous knowledge pedagogy and cultural competence
- Indigenous language revitalization in PSE programming
- Collaborative approaches to Indigenous intellectual property
Governance and Leadership Empowerment
- Cultural awareness
- Recruiting, training, retaining and engaging faculty, staff, students, and community
- Community engagement and empowerment
Indigenous Approaches to Health and Healing
- Protecting, incorporating, and promoting Indigenous traditional medicines and practices
- Partnerships to strengthen Indigenous health care
- Achieving transformative change
Indigenous Learner Access to the Labour Market
- Economic empowerment and development for the learner and community
- Indigenous entrepreneurship
- Skilled trades and meeting housing needs
- Showcasing strategic partnerships (i.e. health, trades)
Indigenous Learner Success
- Mental health and wellness
- Sense of belonging
- Learner experiences
- Learning outcomes in PSE programming
