Indigenization

The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, works collaboratively with the Office of Indigenous Engagement to continue advancing Indigenization initiatives that impact our academic programming and Indigenous faculty and student excellence.

Indigenous Cluster Hire

The University of Winnipeg recently completed a cluster hire of eight Indigenous faculty members across the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Gupta Faculty of Kinesiology, Faculty of Business and Economics, and Global College.

The Indigenous cluster hire is part of a larger effort to advance Reconciliation and increase BIPOC faculty representation at UWinnipeg.

Included in the hiring are tenure-track positions in the Departments of Anthropology, Business and Administration, Criminal Justice, Indigenous Studies, and Kinesiology and Applied Health, as well as in the Master’s in Development Practice – Environmental Studies and Sciences program overseen by Global College.

For more information read New initiative to bring more Indigenous faculty to UWinnipeg and Eight new Indigenous faculty members join UWinnipeg.

Indigenous Course Requirement

The University of Winnipeg is proud to be one of the first universities in Canada to mandate that all incoming undergraduate students learn about Indigenous peoples and be exposed to Indigenous perspectives and worldviews.

Students may choose from a number of three-credit-hour courses in which the greater part of the content is local Indigenous material — derived from or based on an analysis of the cultures, languages, history, ways of knowing or contemporary reality of the Indigenous peoples whose homelands are located within the modern boundaries of Canada and the continental USA.

For more information visit Indigenous Course Requirement.