Sauder School of Business
The Sauder School of Business at UBC recognizes the need to increase Aboriginal participation in post-secondary business education. It founded and supports the Ch’nook Initiative’s focus on encouraging, enabling and enhancing business education opportunities for Aboriginal high school and post-secondary students as well as for Aboriginal senior leaders in communities across Canada.
encana
Our Aboriginal Relations team seeks to support economic growth in the First Nations communities and cultures where we do business. Through our support of educational bursaries, we’re also helping to train the Aboriginal business leaders of tomorrow.
TD Canada Trust
With their annual endowment, TD Canada Trust will assist Aboriginal students by removing barriers to education. In doing this, they support Ch’nook’s vision to develop tomorrow’s Aboriginal business leaders and inspire future generations to realize their community’s hopes and dreams.
Nexen
Nexen’ s Aboriginal Partnerships strategy is one of the key ways in which they work to create mutually-beneficial relationships with Aboriginal people. They invest in Aboriginal communities and strive to create opportunities within them in order to ensure that Aboriginal people fully participate and share in the economic and social benefits related to their energy development initiatives.
Ministry of Advanced Education
The Ministry’s 2007 Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education and Training Strategy and Action Plan was built on the principle of engaging key communities and recognizing the importance of authentic relationship-building between post-secondary institutions and Aboriginal communities and organizations. It builds towards the education goals outlined in the Transformative Change Accord and is a key component of realizing The New Relationship vision with respect to British Columbia First Nations and “to make British Columbia the best educated, most literate jurisdiction on the continent.”
University of British Columbia
UBC is emerging as a leading destination for Aboriginal students and scholars. Since UBC’s Aboriginal Strategy was launched in 2009, the university has nearly doubled its complement of Aboriginal faculty to 26, making it one of the top recruiters of Aboriginal faculty among research universities. Since 2008, UBC has created 13 courses with significant Indigenous content, bringing the total to 66 across the faculties of Medicine, Law, Business, Arts, Education, Forestry, Graduate Studies and Continuing Studies. Finally, Enrolment is growing too. More than 630 UBC students current self-identify as Aboriginal. Graduate student enrolment has jumped 16 per cent since 2008.
