Several postsecondary institutions recently celebrated key milestones in the development of facilities and spaces that will support Indigenous students and learning. Thompson Rivers University recently broke ground on its new $22M Indigenous Education Centre (IEC). The University of Toronto and Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue each inaugurated special outdoor gathering spaces that support teaching, sharing, and reconciliation. The University of Saskatchewan and the University of Manitoba have each unveiled Indigenous student spaces: USask’s College of Education has revitalized its Indian Teacher Education Program’s (ITEP) Indigenous student lounge and renamed it after the founding ITEP director, the late Dr Cecil King; while UManitoba’s College of Nursing opened a lounge for students in the pathway to Indigenous nursing program that sits adjacent to an outdoor medicine garden.
