Mark your calendars - Announcing A Call to Innovate
Nipissing University is proud to be hosting a panel discussion featuring high profile leaders in Aboriginal education on November 3, in the Nipissing theatre (F213).A Call to Innovate: Creating Conditions to Compel Meaningful Change in Indigenous Education will focus on the future.
Speakers include John Ralston Saul, National Chief Shawn Atleo and Jose Barreiro of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian.
“These speakers have a national profile and we working to ensure we have a compelling discussion about how innovation can drive change at universities, in society and within First Nations communities,” said Laurie McLaren, executive director of Nipissing’s Aboriginal Initiatives Office.
The discussion will be moderated by Nipissing University Chancellor Dr. Jon Dellandrea.
If you have questions you would like to see the panelists answer, or issues you would like to see them discuss, please forward them tolaurash@nipissingu.ca. We hope to include a selection of questions if time permits.
The formal panel discussion will start at 6:30 p.m. It will be preceded by a reception in the main foyer at 5:30 p.m. Seating will be limited. Please watch for more information about this exciting event in upcoming editions of NU News.Speaker BiosJohn Ralston Saul
Author, lecturer and philosopher, his many books include the 2008 bestseller A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada. In it, he argues that Canada is a Metis Nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ways of knowing, philosophies and realities.National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo
Elected as National Chief in July 2009, Atleo holds a MEd from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and an honorary Doctorate of Education from Nipissing University. He is the Chancellor of Vancouver Island University. Atleo is a hereditary Chief from the Ahousaht First Nation.Jose Barreiro
Assistant Director of Research, and Director, Office for Latin America at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. A leading scholar of American Indian policy and contemporary Native experience, his books and papers cover a wide range of topics. He helped establish the American Indian Program at Cornell University and is a member of the Taino Nation of the Antilles.