Written by: Ottawa Business Journal Staff
Published by: Ottawa Business Journal
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Extracted Content: Carleton University has chosen an award-winning academic to help create new business programs that promote entrepreneurship and economic development in Indigenous communities.
Rick Colbourne, an assistant professor at Carleton’s Sprott School of Business, has been appointed the school’s assistant dean of equity and inclusive communities for a two-year term beginning July 1.
The school says Colbourne, an Algonquin from the Mattawa First Nation, will focus on “building new and innovative partnerships with Indigenous communities in education, entrepreneurship and economic development.”