By Cheryl Jahn

UNBC’s First Aboriginal Scholar In Residence Chosen

Jan 5, 2018 | 1:48 PM

UNBC has its first Aboriginal Scholar in Residence, who also happens to originally be from Burns Lake.
Dr. Dustin Louie currently an Assistant Professors at the University of Calgary’s Werklund School of Education. Over the four-month term of his role, Dr. Louie will build relationships with the First Nations students and faculty on campus as well as visit communities that UNBC serves. He says, traditionally, there’s been a divide between being First Nations and being an academic, and hopes to bridge that divide at UNBC.
“How can you be both people in the same space? which is entirely possible,” says Dr. Louie. “You can be German and be within an institution and you don’t have to pick one or the other.”
The Aboriginal Scholar in Residence Program is funded by the provincial government’s Aboriginal Service Plan whose goals are to increase the access, retention, completion and transition opportunities for Aboriginal learners while strengthening partnerships and collaboration in Aboriginal post-secondary education.