Group Aims To Help Native U of S Graduate Students

Group Aims To Help Native U of S Graduate Students

Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 14:51

A graduate student at the University of Saskatchewan is working to resurrect the Aboriginal Graduate Students’ Association.

History Ph.D. student Omeasoo Butt says, for now, it will be called the Indigenous Graduate Students’ Council, because it is working under the arm of the university’s graduate students’ association.

She says the council is important to provide peer support to other Aboriginal graduate students because graduate studies are a lot of work and can be isolating.

Butt adds the council is currently working on finding a home on campus.

She also says she has redesigned the council so that there is no hierarchy of positions.

Butt says, that way, no one is bogged down with too much and the workload is shared.

She has five members so, but needs to fill 17 positions — something she hopes to accomplish over the next four years.