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Day in the Life: Shauna Underwood
The university鈥檚 heart is its students鈥攁nd Shauna Underwood finds both meaning and joy contributing to their success as an Indigenous student advisor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development (HSD). Underwood sees herself as a traditional person; valuing her Coast Salish culture, she is from the Tsawout Band in W瘫S脕NE膯 (Saanich), is a member of the Samish Tribe in Washington, and has traced her roots to the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho.聽 At HSD鈥檚 Indigenous Student Support Centre (ISSC), Underwood works within the only faculty-based centre of its kind on campus with a large Indigenous student cohort, faculty and relevant programs. A day in her life is a mix of the routine and the unexpected. 鈥淚 never know what鈥檚 going to come up,鈥 she says鈥攁nd that鈥檚 okay with her.
Family Centre marks 20 years
Occupying a modest, two-bedroom suite within the Family Housing complex on Lam Circle, the UVic Family Centre was intended as a family health unit. Twenty years later, it has evolved into something much more, says director Elizabeth Quong, 鈥渁nd that鈥檚 a good thing.鈥
My UVic Life student blog
Life for a university student isn鈥檛 just essays, exams and ramen noodles鈥攁lthough those are a big part of it. There are also yoga raves, nights of uninterrupted Netflix marathons, awkward icebreakers and friendships that will last a lifetime. Whether you're a high school student wondering what's like to be an undergraduate student at UVic or a current student looking to share in your classmates鈥 experiences, you鈥檒l find something new in a blogging project that spotlights student life at UVic.
New HSD Indigenous student centre
Shauna Underwood remembers all too well what it was like to be an Indigenous student at UVic鈥攖rying to do well in her studies while also being a single parent of three children and having cultural responsibilities in her community. 鈥淚 felt like I didn鈥檛 have anyone to go to. There were individual instructors who were great, but they are not always on campus or available,鈥 said Underwood, now the Indigenous advisor at the newly opened Indigenous Student Support Centre (ISSC) in the Faculty of Human and Social Development.
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