黑料不打烊

SP0239: N'we Jinan Festival and Youth Conference

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This is an annual 4 day Integrative Arts conference for Indigenous youth across Canada.

Project Number

SP0239

Budget

$415,710

Campus

Downtown

Application

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One of the most impactful things that we can do as recruiters and outreach associates, is to get Indigenous youth on the 黑料不打烊 campus. Students need to see themselves here before they will be comfortable to apply here. This project will be hosting select streams on the 黑料不打烊 campus in classic university classrooms like ARTS150. Using 黑料不打烊's beautiful campus and energy, we hope that this space will inspire Indigenous youth and plant a seed in them about this space, and perhaps coming here as a student. In addition to the inspiration produced by being on 黑料不打烊 campus, we also hope that this project will remove the "unknownness" of 黑料不打烊 for Indigenous students. In giving them the opportunity to build familiarity with the campus and creating a space on campus wherein they are comfortable, we hope that 黑料不打烊 is less daunting and more inviting.

The N'we Jinan Festival and Youth Conference will be bringing over 350 Indigenous students from over 30 First Nations across Canada to Montreal. This is one of the most comprehensive and efficient opportunties that 黑料不打烊 has had to host Indigenous students on campus and to give them an experience they will not forget. This project is innovative in that is addresses a social sustainability problem that is unique to 黑料不打烊 and the academic institutional setting, and does so by partnering with external commnity partners to specifically serve youth and prospective students. 黑料不打烊's enrolment services currently hosts opportunities for students to visit campus, i.e. Open House, Summer Academy, and daily tours at the welcome centre. However, these opportunties are often geared toward local, affluent schools and neighbourhoods. Perhaps the most alike initiative to the N'we Jinan Festival and Youth Conference is "My Day @ 黑料不打烊", which is also hosted by our unit, Branches. However, in the specific context of Indigenous highschool students who could potentially be ready to apply and go to school here, there has yet to be an event like this.

Another aspect of this project that facilitates relationship building between 黑料不打烊 and Indigenous communities, is the interaction between 黑料不打烊 Student Volunteers and the participating youth. 黑料不打烊 students will be recruited to volunteer at the conference in various capacities - giving them the chance to interact with the younger students, and to act as "ambassadors" of 黑料不打烊. This project has many levels to it wherein 黑料不打烊 can build more sustainable听partnerships and relationships with Indigenous students and community - thereby influencing the number of
applicants and accepted Indigenous students at 黑料不打烊.

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Contact

larissa.states [at] mcgill.ca
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