Seminars

Creating Good Soil in Higher Education

The numbers are down and she knows it. Programs are at risk. Conversations about the future of certain departments are happening behind closed doors. She’s read the reports about the growing Indigenous population — young, motivated, looking for pathways — and she genuinely wants to reach them. But her last recruitment initiative didn’t land the way she hoped, and she’s not sure why.

What she doesn’t yet realize is that the problem isn’t the outreach. It’s the soil.

As Sandi says plainly: “You do not have the right to invite Indigenous people into unhealthy environments. We don’t need more bad soil.” Creating Good Soil is about building an environment that is genuinely safe, healthy, and ready to support Indigenous students before you ever ask them to walk through your doors.

• Creating Good Soil means building an institution where Indigenous students don’t just enrol — they belong. Learn what that environment actually looks and feels like, and what your team needs to do to create it.
• Walk through every stage of the Indigenous student journey — from first community contact to Year Two retention — and discover exactly where the soil in your institution is too thin to hold them.
• The Indigenous population is young, growing, and looking for institutions that have done this work. Become the post-secondary destination they actively choose, recommend, and return to.