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Admission Policy Review: Strengthening Indigenous In-Community Training Programs, Rennais C. Gayle
Admission Policy Review: Strengthening Indigenous In-Community Training Programs, Rennais C. Gayle
The Dissertation in Practice at Western University
Canada’s colonial past significantly impacts prospective Indigenous student postsecondary enrollment. For the past fifty years, postsecondary institutions have focused on assimilation and cultural renewal. One assumption is Indigenous learners share similar educational experiences including ease and access to westernized high school programs with a credit or term system and ease and access to transcripts and criminal records checks often required for postsecondary admission. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) addresses the Problem of Practice (PoP) in admission procedures that do not consider Indigenous knowledges, experiences, and criteria for entry into postsecondary programming in SMH Department at LAC College. As an academic …
Kotter's Model For Change And Distributed Leadership: A Multifaceted Approach For Canadian Colleges To Become Less Reliant On Operating Grant Funding, Jatinder Notay
The Dissertation in Practice at Western University
The emergence of performance-based frameworks for funding and declining government operating grant funding are contemporary challenges for Canadian public higher education institutions. Operating grants are a sizable portion of the funding institutions receive from the provincial government, and continued conditions on and declines in these grants pose significant risks to the sustainability and viability of these public institutions. Higher education institutions today need to become less reliant on government funds while remaining aligned with mandates to provide the programs and services necessary to meet the needs of the regions and communities they serve. Frontier College (a pseudonym) has revenue diversification …