Looking Ahead

New UBC Sauder Building

We are currently planning our new building: the Powerhouse Project. The School is strategically designing new programming and spaces that build on momentum from our past decade of growth to meet the needs of the entire UBC Sauder community. One of the three key areas the building plans are focusing on is Inclusivity & Community. Key elements that are planned for the space include:

Striving to create inclusive, accessible, welcoming, and collaborative multi-functional spaces to meet the diverse interaction, collaboration, and learning needs of our UBC Sauder communities. • A childcare centre to support students, staff, and faculty. We believe that having a daycare in the same building as the

School will have a huge impact on parents having access to working and learning here.

• Spaces and features that acknowledge Indigenous influences, respect our location and history, and allow for Indigenous learning.

• Accessibility and access features including wheelchair access, gender inclusive washrooms, and technology that incorporates universal design into the space itself (i.e., meeting diverse ability and learning needs, such as visual acuity; learning ability, learning styles, neurodiversity, etc.).

Indigenous Relations

As UBC Sauder moves ahead with our Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) Level II and Level III goals in ways that support the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan, the UBC Sauder Strategic Plan, and our UBC Sauder EDI Strategic planning, the School is working on the following:

• Installation of the carving, “Intersection of Enlightenment” by famed Musqueam artist Susan Point in the main foyer of the

UBC Sauder School of Business Henry Angus building.

Inspired by Ancestral Musqueam weaving, this contemporary artwork will be suspended in the School’s atrium and convey the themes of Coast Salish Commerce and the history of trade. Based on traditional teachings, the installation pays tribute to this land and its earliest inhabitants and symbolizes the coming together of people crossing paths and interweaving cultures. The art work reflects the long history of the Musqueam people on these lands and the recognition that this site has always been, and continues to be, a place of education, inspiration, commerce, and growth. The formal

‘unveiling’ of the art piece will bring together members of the

School and Musqueam in a celebratory event planned for later in 2022. • The UBC Sauder School of Business will reconvene meetings between the leadership of UBC Sauder and the respective leadership of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh

Nations, which were delayed in the past year due to COVID-19.

The goal of these meetings is to facilitate greater ties between the School and the Nations including opportunities for engagement and goals of the Canadian Council of Business

Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) program.

• Hiring of an Indigenous student recruiter to facilitate increased recruitment of Indigenous students to UBC Sauder degree programs.

• Continuing to provide Indigenous Cultural Awareness training sessions to UBC Sauder employees on the history and legal framework of Indigenous peoples in Canada.

• Continuing to work with UBC Procurement to increase usage of Indigenous vendors for the provisioning of services at UBC Sauder.