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There are a few things to know about the department of Indigenous Studies at University of Sudbury, one of the federated universities on the Laurentian University campus impacted by the embattled school’s
It has the highest number of students enrolled of all programs at the University of Sudbury.
It boasts what associate professor, nêhiyaw iskwêw, Midewiwin Kwe, Water Walker and Sweetgrass Roots activist Tasha Beeds said is the “lowest paid faculty in Canada.”
It is one of two universities that pioneered the discipline of Indigenous Studies. (The other is Trent University.)
But there isn’t much to know about the University of Sudbury’s future at the moment, other than the dissolution of the federation agreement on May 1.
Sweetgrass Roots activist Tasha Beeds
There are a few things to know about the department of Indigenous Studies at University of Sudbury, one of the federated universities on the Laurentian University campus impacted by the embattled school’s unilateral termination of the federation on April 1.
It has the highest number of students enrolled of all programs at the University of Sudbury.
It boasts what associate professor, nehiyaw iskwew, Midewiwin Kwe, Water Walker and Sweetgrass Roots activist Tasha Beeds said is the “lowest paid faculty in Canada.”
It is one of two universities that pioneered the discipline of Indigenous Studies. (The other is Trent University.)