TMU Aboriginal Student Centre (TMUASS)

Aboriginal Student Services. Toronto Metropolitan University. (n.d.): https://www.torontomu.ca/aboriginal/

• “TMU Aboriginal Student Services (TMUASS) (formerly known by its acronym RASS) provides a culturally supportive environment to promote academic excellence and serves as a place to balance academic learning with traditional teachings and culture.”
• “Our role is to provide specialized services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples on campus and to develop a mutually productive relationship between TMU and the Aboriginal community.”
• TMU “strives to develop positive relationships with the Aboriginal community through TMUASS initiatives and through the Aboriginal Education Council (AEC). TMUASS is part of the Aboriginal Initiatives unit in the Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion (OVPECI).”
• “The TMUASS team endeavors to provide a culturally supportive environment to promote academic excellence and serve as a place to balance academic learning with traditional teachings and culture.”
• “At TMUASS we use circle of support, web-based models. Our aim is to support students in a way that is fluid and connected from the moment of their application to their graduation. This means that instead of seeing one person for one matter, and another person for another,  the TMUASS team works with one other to assist students in a wholistic way, both within our space and in relationship with other resources on campus.”
• “All of our Indigenous students have access to the services we provide such as academic advising and referral, bursary and scholarship information, writing support, tutor assistance, financial planning and more.”

Aboriginal Education Council

Aboriginal Education Council. (2014). Toronto Metropolitan University Aboriginal Education Council
Terms of Reference: https://www.torontomu.ca/content/dam/aec/pdfs/AEC-TOR-Nov-2014-FINAL.pdf

• This council was created in 2010 as part of the Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education Training (PSET)
• Its vision “is to ensure that the next seven generations of Aboriginal people including students, faculty and staff have greater opportunities and success in education” at TMU (pg. 1)
• The focus is on developing a continued relationship of truth and reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people
• AEC is involved in decision making related to Indigenous education at Toronto Metropolitan University