1. Email signature tag line

• Diane’s response: No unit standard on the line on the Musqueam land. Land claim with Musqueam peoples has not been finalized (Currently on lease). There are still open claims. Making a standardized email signature including a line on the land issue as a unit can have serious legal implications.
• As a unit, we can’t create a standardized a line on Musqueam territory in the email signature (i.e., work email), while we can do it at an individual level (e.g., personal email). It’s ultimately an individual choice for each staff member.
• The second part of the email signature on the TRC event (“September 18, 2013 is the Observance of Opening of West Coast National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Learn more at http://irsi.aboriginal.ubc.ca”): We will run by kele to get approval.

2. Debrief of the cross-team TRC workshop on May 22

Intercultural Working Group team members will lead the proposed project at the workshop.

Luisa’s team (with Emily) – Resource development (i.e., module development)

• Pull together different resources that are available (e.g., MOA) rather than developing new content. Want to have faculty consultation.
• Connect with Leah Walker (On-line course on implications of colonization to medicine) and Jennifer Kramer (curator of MOA)
• Amy and Luisa will touch base on a regular basis, rather than Amy always being involved in the process.

Jarrad’s team – Staff engagement in the TRC event

• September 18th is not only for students. Can UBC HR make it explicit that staff is entitled to participate in the event? Jarred consults kele with our suggestions/questions and bring them to Lisa Castle in HR:
• Can HR facilitate lunch sessions for staff? When is HR’s regular staff BBQ? Is it during the event? Or, if it is after the event, it may serve as an opportunity for staff to reflect on the event.
• Can AAPS (union for staff) do something?
• At CTLT: Can CTLT make an announcement on the CTLT website to encourage other units to make it possible for their staff to participate in the event?
• We may be able to make a video to announce what we are doing at CTLT to encourage people to think about how they could engage in the event and to invite them to our events.

Mali & Hanae’s team (with Sarah Ling, Roselynn, and Gillian)

• Lobby exhibition at IKB – Get in touch with Sarah Dupont (who helped the Aboriginal Month exhibit in IKB). Mali will email Sarah Dupont to have a meeting with the team
• Main Mall – Michelle’s suggestion: Keep the material simple and reusable. Resource may be available.
• Set up a historical timeline in the Pharmacy Building
• Electronic signage with questions or quotes to provoke people’s thinking. We create texts, such as: “Don’t we have treaties here?” “Residential School happened a long time ago. Why don’t we get over it?” “My family is new to Canada. Why does it matter to me?”
• Develop some resources that illustrate how we may be able to answer these questions? (e.g., The “Really?” campaign postcards) We can create a response to illustrate situated personal narratives rather than abstract responses (e.g., A particular person responding to the question from his/her social position)
• Run by Sukhi to see if the market team can design and distribute the signs across campus

Judy’s team – Workshop

• Workshop similar to what Amy and Hanae did on Learning Lab or Mali’s idea (i.e., physical mapping activity – “Where were you 10 years ago? Where were you 20 years ago?”…)
• Have a series of workshops during the summer and tie them together in September
• May develop resources through the workshops (CoP model?)
• Include workshops on basics? (Linda’s suggestion at the cross-team workshop)
• Judy is looking for a co-facilitator – Mali and Hanae are happy to help

Zack’s team

• How can we coordinate everything we do so that everything looks coherent rather than fragmented?
• We need to coordinate based on theme or question, rather than based on events
• Cross-team monthly workshops can be a place where we coordinate different projects.
• Create a Wiki to keep the language consistent and to avoid redundant work/reinventing a wheel. Wiki title: “TRC CTLT initiatives”

3. Continue the activity from the last meeting on what CTLT can do to support the TRC event

• At the next cross-team workshop, based on the whole staff meeting (in which we did the sticky note exercise on what our role could be in the TRC event), we will match CTLT staff’s skills, suggestions, connections/networks with our projects proposed at the cross-team workshop.