Core Area
Education
Strategic Area
Sustained focus on recruitment and services to attract and support an outstanding and diverse student population
Goal Status
In Progress
Objectives
- Run third iteration of Verna Kirkness program (2025).
- Indigenous Student Collegium to develop Indigenous student mentor program (2024–2026).
Achieved Goals
- Participated in the Verna Kirkness Foundation program for Indigenous High School students to participate in pharmaceutical science experiences (2 students in May 2023; 4 students in July 2024).
- Dr Jarvis-Selinger's e-mentoring program funded ongoing. The team was funded $249,350 through the UBC Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Fund, Stream 2: Transformative Projects. 2023–2026, for the project "Bridging the gap to UBC: transforming an online mentoring program to meet the needs of rural Indigenous youth" (July 2023). E-mentoring plans included more cross-Faculty activities including an early mentoring project with the Office of Student Services (OSS) with pharmacy mentors (in 2023, 120 high school students came on the program; including some E2P students as outreach ambassadors). By 2024, the program had mentored more than 1,100 rural youth from grades 7 to 12 with more than 600 mentors.
- Re-established the Faculty-Student mentorship program for E2P PharmD students, and extended to BPSc students (Sep 2024).