Workshop Breakout II Group 6 (Community and Elders) Hiring, Retention, Tenure, & Promotion

Hiring, Retention, Tenure, and Promotion

Workshop Breakout II

Breakout Group 6 (Community and Elders)

Hiring

advisory council to get First Nations on to faculty – can’t find anyone to hire

need to be more creative than academic qualifications

beyond tokenism

Elder involvement

Elder Advisor

Advisory board input not valued

Elders volunteer and non-paid

Elder in residence needed for student success

Use love to combat racism and judgment;

promote body, mind, emotion and spirit; be true – really walk your talk

meet needs, not be judgmental, who I am, not what I do.

Universities stuck in old ways

Funding

First Nations schools will not get funded if non First Nations institutions “indigenize”

Change

Racism Combatted by Love, spirit

Use love to combat racism and judgment;

promote body, mind, emotion and spirit; be true – really walk your talk

Hiring questions not relevant to experience or job description

Academic qualifications given too much importance

Tenure

afraid of tenure

Faculty with tenure resistant to change

Tokenism

can’t find anyone to hire – need to be more creative than academic qualifications – beyond tokenism –

What is the Students’ orientation

Knowing their own history

Question value and manipulation at interview

Pre-European education

Had to survive in their environment

Student success

start student support circles

What do we want our people to learn?

What is it we want our people to learn?”

Challenging to bring traditional learning into university setting

To what degree should we share our learning within the institution?

If not there, where else will they learn it?

Residential schools

How do we replace the learning that was lost due to residential school?

European education vs past aboriginal learning

Student success and Skills for survival in environment

Right to speak

The need for learning – if I have a degree, I have the right to speak

Degree

Traditional learning

To what degree should we share our learning within institution

Learning about cultural background

What is the story that goes with the learning

Community consultation:

first thing, community consultation to find community priorities;

language, education, business, natural resources, health – advisory council to get First Nations on to faculty – can’t find anyone to hire – need to be more creative than academic qualifications – beyond tokenism

language needs to be taught

need to start “teaching” in our own communities

Language

language needs to be taught

Business

Health

Culture and non-traditional / academic courses

in nursing school, had to do anatomy and physiology, had to dissect  cadaver,

but culturally, never tamper with one who has passed on –

for the benefit of our people you need to learn, watch, not touch –

translate medicine into language –

look at what will get used in surgery; our elders become our teachers

Learn by watching not by doing

Bureaucracy

got tired that the University wanted me to prove what I could do, needed to write a resume; before, hired by what I knew, not what I did – meet needs, not be judgmental, who I am, not what I do.

Research and applying knowledge

Take research and knowledge into the communities

the work has already been done- the research has been done – need to apply what we already know

start student support circles –

need to start “teaching” in our own communities