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The 2025 National Indigenous Education Symposium welcomes a diverse community of leaders, educators, and partners who are committed to advancing Indigenous participation, success, and leadership in postsecondary education and beyond. This includes:<\/span>
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Post-Secondary Education Leaders:<\/strong> Presidents, administrators, deans, researchers, faculty, and student service professionals from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleges, institutes, polytechnics, CEGEPs, and universities, whether already engaged in Indigenous education or looking to deepen their understanding and impact.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Industry:<\/strong> Employers, business leaders, and organizations working with postsecondary institutions to support Indigenous learners, promote inclusive hiring practices, or co-develop programs rooted in reconciliation, innovation, and community need.<\/span>
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Government:<\/strong> Officials and policymakers from federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments involved in education, Indigenous affairs, workforce development, and economic reconciliation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan), the national voice of Canada\u2019s publicly supported colleges, institutes, CEGEPs and polytechnics, and the\u00a0Indigenous Institutes Consortium (IIC), which represents seven Indigenous-governed and mandated postsecondary education and life-long learning institutes in Ontario, will co-host the event and convene a diverse group of leaders and innovators in Indigenous and postsecondary education from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-about.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.collegesinstitutes.ca\/NIES2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.collegesinstitutes.ca\/NIES2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.collegesinstitutes.ca\/NIES2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.collegesinstitutes.ca\/NIES2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.collegesinstitutes.ca\/NIES2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.collegesinstitutes.ca\/NIES2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.collegesinstitutes.ca\/NIES2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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