About Us

In fulfillment of their bilingual and tricultural mandate, Laurentian University and its federated partner, the University of Sudbury, have:

• Appointed a critical mass of 24 Indigenous faculty members who hold full-time positions in Anthropology, Architecture, Education, English, Geography, History, Indigenous Social Work, Indigenous Studies, Labour Studies, Nursing, Rural and Northern Health, and Sociology;
• Established a Master of Indigenous Relations in the Faculty of Health in 2014;
• Begun working to establish the Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute;
• Taken a variety of initiatives to integrate Indigenous knowledge more broadly across the curriculum;
• Created over 100 Indigenous content courses across some 20 different programs in the Faculty of Arts;
• Obtained Senate approval for new B.A. requirements which include 6 credits of Indigenous content courses for all B.A. degrees as of 2017, a proposal that was unanimously endorsed by Arts Council;
• Built a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous faculty who are working together on the design and delivery of a new interdisciplinary course on missing and murdered Indigenous women;
• Created Laurentian University’s new Indigenous Sharing and Learning Centre (ISLC) which celebrated it's Grand Opening June 21st, 2017;
• Established the University of Sudbury’s Sacred Fire Arbour traditional teaching space to open in the fall of 2016;
• Offered on-site courses in four Indigenous communities on the James Bay coast and one on Manitoulin Island, delivered by the University of Sudbury;
• Offered cultural sensitivity training workshops to the University of Sudbury’s board and members of the university community at the four institutions in the Laurentian Federation.