Castanet reports that Thompson Rivers University Chancellor DeDe DeRose has re-initiated a nationwide Indigenous university chancellors working group. The group—co-chaired by DeRose and University of the Fraser Valley Chancellor Jo-Anne Archibald—is primarily focused on addressing the challenges faced by Indigenous learners and celebrating their successes. Other topics of interest include residential school denialism and Indigenous identity fraud. “We all agreed that we didn’t want this to just be a negative conversation, but to talk about some of the highlights that are going on and share some of those with each other, so we said that when we meet we will talk about the challenges and also the good things that are going on in campuses,” said DeRose.
