Aboriginal Education community highlights!
- Aboriginal mentor received 2009 distinguished Alumni Award
- Camosun's Archaeological Field Assistant program heads north
- First Nations students complete Residential Building Maintenance Worker training
- School of Access & AECC Annual Report (pdf 3.94 MB)
- School of Access & AECC Newsletter–Spring 2009 (pdf 234 kB)
Aboriginal mentor receives Fall 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award
Nella Nelson grew up in a home that valued education, and and so it seems logical that she would become a teacher. But that wasn’t her intention when she first enrolled in Camosun’s University Transfer program.
Growing up in the N’amgis Nation of Alert Bay, Nelson’s goal was to conduct historical research that would benefit her band. Her path changed, though, when she and other parents from a Victoria school started to explore how to weave First Nations content into the curriculum. Nelson became passionate about public education and returned to UVic for her Bachelors of Education degree. Read more...
Camosun’s Archaeological Field Assistant program heads north
Camosun College enthusiastically accepted the invitation to deliver its unique Archaeological Field Assistant program in the northern community of Tsay Keh Village. However, the project was not without its challenges.
In February 2009, BC Hydro contacted Nicole Kilburn, program chair, curriculum designer and instructor for Camosun’s Archaeology Field Assistant program, and asked if she could adapt the program for a group of Aboriginal students in the remote village of Tsay Keh, located on the northern tip of Williston Reservoir, a five hour drive north of Mackenzie, BC. Read more...
First Nations students complete Residential Building Maintenance Worker training
May 12, 2009 was a day of celebration for the Tseycum, Beecher Bay, Pauquachin, Tsawout and Tsartlip First Nations and Camosun College. Eleven students from the five local First Nations communities completed their Level 1 apprenticeship training in the Residential Building Maintenance Worker Program (RBMW). Read more...