Healing & action

Create pathways for the FLC community to enact and embody shared understanding, responsibility, and commitments to the Reconciliation Framework.

Orange: Reconciliation, reflecting the vibrant desert sunsets.

Desert sunset

Professional development

Provide essential professional development opportunities for all faculty and staff so that they can understand reconciliation work and best serve Indigenous students.

  1. Develop robust reconciliation onboarding orientation for new staff and faculty.
  2. Develop a culture of support for professional learning and create a process for benchmarking progress.
  3. Implement reconciliation practices in teaching, research, and service through holistic professional development opportunities for faculty and staff.

Curriculum development

Incorporate the Reconciliation Framework into the curriculum across schools, departments, and academic and co-curricular programs.

  1. Develop a Reconciliation Curriculum Institute that provides resources and support for faculty and departments to develop or rework an existing course to incorporate reconciliation.
  2. Incorporate the Reconciliation Framework into existing curriculum and student-facing programs.
  3. Use learning data to integrate Indigenous Ways of Knowing into new and existing courses (see Reconciliation).
  4. Develop a faculty-led reconciliation designation and standards for Liberal Arts Core.

Student healing & support

Develop healing-centered programs, places, and support for Indigenous students to thrive at FLC.

  1. Establish a Center for Indigenous Wellness.
  2. Develop a permanent acknowledgment to honor the children of the Fort Lewis Federal Indian Boarding School.
  3. Designate Indigenous healing spaces on campus.
  4. Expand community partnerships to provide health and wellness services to Indigenous students (see Basic Needs).

Community impact

Serve as a leading resource on sound approaches to reconciliation practices at the community, state, and national levels.

  1. Expand programming, engagement, and out- reach related to FLC’s reconciliation work for all campus members and the broader community.
  2. Develop institutional processes and protocols for engaging with Tribal Nations and Indigenous community partners.
  3. Elevate partnerships and exchange opportunities with other organizations and institutions of higher education engaging in reconciliation work.
A student records their voice during an indigenous language revitalization project.

 

Students and community members march for indigenous rights at the Clocktower on Fort Lewis College's campus.

 

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