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Global engagement

We create opportunities at home and abroad through partnerships around the world — including supporting hundreds of students from dozens of countries. 

We’re committed to: 

  • Meeting the needs of our international students at NIC and in our communities 
  • Developing study abroad opportunities and international learning at home 
  • Creating and implementing contact training, projects and applied research

Journeying Together

Hand-drawn illustration of people in a canoe journeying across a landscape

Journeying Together Graphic Recording by Carla Duffey – Annual Report Year 2

In fall 2022, NIC launched Journeying Together, Canada’s first-ever Indigenous-serving internationalization plan developed with guidance and support from the college's Indigenous Education team and Indigenous Education Council, NIC Elders-in-residence and Indigenous community members. Journeying Together is an ongoing collaboration between the Indigenous Education and the Office of Global Engagement and grew from the principles outlined in NIC’s first Indigenous education plan, Working Together.  

This plan just completed its third year and weaves international and Indigenous education together so that visiting students and those who eventually become citizens understand the colonial history of Canada — its legacy and ongoing impacts — here and across international borders. It also strongly reflects a growing interest from Indigenous students and communities to engage more actively in building Indigenous educational opportunities worldwide.

2022 NIC Indigenous Language Revitalization Field School with Kapi’olani Community College students and employees

Journeying Together

Our award winning international Indigenization plan. 

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Elder in residence, Daryle Mills, shares wellness teachings to NIC employees and board members.

Working Together

Our official Indigenization plan is the first in our college's history.

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OIE/OGE Awards

Journeying Together annual reports

Year 1: Annual report | Dashboard 

Year 2: Annual report | Dashboard

Year 3: Annual report | Dashboard

Stories from the journey so far

Central to the graphic recording from the OGE retreat from 2024, we are committed to: 

  • Focusing on the journey, not the destination
  • Slowing down to ensure we are all together, pulling in the same direction
  • Collecting and sharing student, faculty, staff, community and partner stories 
  • Moving toward reconcili-action 
Hand-drawn illustration of students journeying together at an Indigenous Field School in Hawaii

Graphic recording of the student and faculty experiences of the 'Journeying Together Te Ao Hurihuri' Indigenous field school 2024.

Scholarships

Student and faculty video