On National Indigenous Peoples Day, Algonquin College President and CEO Claude Brulé outlined the College’s next steps as a community to further embed Indigenous knowledge and culture “into who we are as a College and how we operate.”
He said that next steps include: 1) Over the next year, the College will develop a multi-year Truth, Reconciliation and Indigenization Strategic Plan, in consultation with the College community and our Indigenous partners and 2) develop a Student Leadership Pack that will create opportunities for Indigenous learners to share and celebrate Indigenous culture with their peers and College community and Indigenous partners.
“I would like, on this National Indigenous Peoples Day, to reaffirm Algonquin College’s commitments,” said Brulé at an employee gathering on Monday, June 21. “Let us mark this annual day in the future by reflecting on how we are meeting our goals and vision. How are we living up to our commitments to Truth and Reconciliation?”
Meagan Mallory (photo, left) and Jadzia Bryson (right) knew they wanted to be nurses from an early age. Mallory made the decision as a child when her brother was sick with leukemia (he later recovered). For Bryson, her determination to enter the profession solidified when she began the program two years ago and realized nursing and helping people “was where I needed to be.”