TRU faculty member’s chair in Indigenizing Higher Education renewed
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KAMLOOPS — A Thompson Rivers University (TRU) faculty member, who is Canada’s only chair in Indigenizing Higher Education, has been renewed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) for another five years.
In a news release issued Thursday (June 2), TRU says Dr. Mukwa Musayett’s (Shelly Johnson) chair in the faculty of education and social work centres on how university-based research and teaching can better serve Indigenous advancement. Her position was renewed for five more years as institutions across the country try to find ways to meet the Calls to Action on Education by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and the Calls to Justice by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Dr. Yasmin Dean, dean of TRU’s faculty of education and social work, says Musayett’s work includes the development and delivery of a course in the Master of Education program called “Privileging Indigenous Oral Traditions and Storywork in International Indigenous Research.”
“Through such course design, Dr. Mukwa Musayett helps TRU to guide research and teaching in a way that is inclusive, respectful, and honoring of Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing,” Dean says.
