SAGE

SHARING CIRCLE

• What is your name?
• Where are you from?
• What program are you in?
• Research interest?

SAGE

• Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement
• A peer-based support network for Indigenous graduate students
• In 2005 the first SAGE program began in British Columbia in response to the lack of presence of Indignity within universities

SAGE

• In 2012 UWO started their SAGE pod
• Goal: Provide spaces in which Aboriginal students such as yourselves and faculty can come together to critically engage with ideas, theories, research processes, and lived experiences of being Indigenous within mainstream institutions

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SAGE Survey

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Aboriginal Awareness Week

Questions & Suggestions

• keynote speaker
• Student research panel
• Workshops??
• Indigenous graduate talent showcase: to perform a song, play an instrument, share a poem, dance, story, art etc

IPEC

IPEC

• Western's Indigenous Strategic Plan
• Indigenous Services
• Indigenous student of the year award 2016
• Annual Indigenous graduation celebration
• Indigenous Leadership Certificate Program
• Learning resource centre

ISIC

ISIC

• Launch draft plan March/ April 2016
• Present to IPEC March
• Launch Nov. 2016

Questions

SAGE Members

SAGE Members

Contact

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