Student Stories
UBC Classes Suspended on September 18th for TRC
September 11, 2013
UBC will be suspending most classes on the Vancouver campus on Wednesday, September 18th so that students, faculty, and staff may more fully engage with the National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Learn more about this historic event, the Commission, and why UBC is taking this extraordinary measure by visiting the […]
Student Profile: Kinwa Bluesky (UBC Law PhD Candidate)
May 20, 2013
Kinwa’s research represents the culmination of many years of reflection on indigenous issues.
Advocate for Her People
May 13, 2013
For former Chief Leah George-Wilson, law school was a natural choice.
Student Lunches Bring Together Aboriginal Student Community
March 7, 2013
Every Tuesday, the UBC Aboriginal student community comes together for a lunch and Information Session in Sty-Wet-Tan, the Great Hall of the First Nations Longhouse.
Elder Larry Grant Featured by UBC Chinese Canadian Stories Project
April 27, 2012
Elder Larry Grant, our Elder-in-Residence at the First Nations House of Learning, is well-known and much appreciated for welcoming students, faculty, staff, and guests to the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Musqueam (hyperlink to Musqueam website), hən’q’əmin’əm’-speaking people…
UBC offers new $20,000 Scholarships for Aboriginal Students
March 21, 2012
The University of British Columbia has launched two new major entrance scholarships for First Nations, Métis and Inuit students entering UBC undergraduate programs from secondary school, in an effort to attract and support the most accomplished and promising Aboriginal students from across Canada.
Alumnus and M.Ed Student Rupert Richardson on His University Experience
March 15, 2012
Rupert Richardson, a recent NITEP graduate, is now an M.Ed. student in the Education Studies Department and works for the Institute for Aboriginal Health and College for Health Disciplines. Here he shares some of his story.
New Aboriginal Student Orientation Offered at UBC
November 4, 2011
From August 15- 31st 2011, nine new-to-UBC Aboriginal students took part in the Jump Start orientation program. Traditionally a program for international students, 2011 was the first year that an Aboriginal cohort was included alongside international students.
Aboriginal Graduation Celebration
October 27, 2009
One of the First Nations House of Learning’s great honours is to celebrate the achievement of the University of British Columbia’s Aboriginal graduates, together with their families and supporters from throughout British Columbia and beyond.