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Business In Vancouver: Schools pave path to indigenous business success
Jan 19, 2016
More First Nations students navigate post-secondary business training as indigenous high school graduation notches to all-time high.More...
Globe and Mail: Beedie initiatives to lift next generation of First Nation entrepreneurs
Jun 1, 2015
The following article was published by the Globe and Mail on May 29.More...
SFU to advance Indigenous entrepreneurship with RBC gift
Apr 28, 2015
A $1.3 million gift from RBC will enable Simon Fraser University to prepare the next generation of Indigenous leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation.More...
AQ Magazine: Aboriginal Leadership
Apr 8, 2014
The following article was published in the April 2014 issue of SFU’s AQ Magazine. By Diane Luckow. Vancouver-based Taseko Mines has long proposed a $1.5 billion open-pit gold and copper mine in B.C.’s Cariboo. But the company continues to encounter significant opposition from the region’s First Nations, and the project’s future continues to hang in the balance.More...
Globe and Mail: First Nations students brought into the fold
Nov 6, 2013
The following article was published in the Globe and Mail on November 5, 2013. It has taken a few detours, but Sheryl Fisher’s 20-year-long dream to earn a master-level business degree is coming true. A member of Squamish First Nation in British Columbia, the 44-year-old has worked since leaving high school and earned several college certificates, but none offered a path to a university degree. That route opened last year when she was accepted into […]More...
EMBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership boosts First Nations postsecondary enrollment
Aug 26, 2013
The following article was published by The Georgia Straight on August 21, 2013. When Eldon Yellowhorn attended Simon Fraser University in the early 1990s, he was one of two First Nations graduate students, and he says he was among fewer than a dozen indigenous people enrolled at the institution. Now the chair of the department of First Nations studies at SFU, Yellowhorn notes that a lot has changed since then. The university now has more […]More...