New leadership position at UVic aims to bring Indigenous perspective to institution

She will sit on the university’s executive council, providing an Indigenous lens to council, and is responsible for developing a strategy that integrates Indigenous cultures, histories and beliefs into the university’s work.
In her more than two decades at the university, Thomas has seen improvement in the number of Indigenous students and faculty at UVic, as well as courses that include Indigenous content, but she knows there’s more work ahead to remove barriers for Indigenous students.
Thomas points to the university’s use of exams as a main assessment method as one way in which the institution is not designed for Indigenous learners.

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