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EdCo has 21 voting members, representing students, employees and leadership. Learn how you can take part! All members serve a two-year term with the exception of students who serve a one-year term. EdCo contains four elected students, four administrators who are appointed by the president, two elected support staff, one Indigenous member and 10 elected faculty members. The faculty includes one

Innovative Solutions for Complex Problems Established in 2020, the Selkirk Technology Access Centre (STAC) is your one-stop shop to access the advanced technologies you need to drive business innovation. We help you apply new technologies to workflows, engage in aerial data collection, use machine learning and geospatial analysis to understand your data, prototype new designs, reverse engineer

Selkirk College acknowledges our respect for and deep gratitude to the First Nations of the West Kootenay and Boundary regions: the Sinixt (Lakes), the Syilx (Okanagan), the Ktunaxa and the Secwepemc (Shuswap) peoples on whose traditional territories we are honoured to operate. An Ecosystem for Education The Skattebo Education Forest has a fascinating pre- and post-colonial history. Doukhobors

Education Explore the diversity of terrain, ecosystems and wildlife in the forest through field labs, integrated projects and research, Integrated projects Students in Forestry Technology are tasked with assessing all timber and non-timber values in the forest. Other student work in the forest involves data collection, analysis, mapping and prescription writing. ​ Field labs Students get hands-on

Recreation The area is often used for hiking, biking, wildcrafting, mushroom picking and wildlife viewing. The Skattebo Education Forest connects to the Skattebo Reach Trail. The 12-kilometre non-motorized trail is part of the Trans Canada Trail. It is maintained by the Castlegar Parks and Trails Society. The forest is open to the public, but motorized vehicles are not allowed off the main road

Woodlot 400 is a provincial forest tenure held by the college that offers enriching educational experiences. It is managed as a working forest, meeting the obligations of the provincial licence, including: Development and Harvesting of a government mandated Annual Allowable Cut volume. Silvicultural obligations for reforestation. Learn more about provincial directives for Woodlot Licence

December 4, 2020, marked the passing of Dr. Myler Wilkinson, former instructor of Peace Studies and English at Selkirk College. Born April 5, 1953, in Vancouver BC, Myler was a lifelong athlete and friend, with an infectious smile, ready jokes and glowing interest in every person he met. Myler's life took him throughout the world as an accomplished scholar and a visionary educator as he shared a

Ceasefire Now The horrifying violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) over the past five weeks has brought deep distress to all who have witnessed or followed the news. For many Jews worldwide, these terrible events have re-triggered the pain and fear of massive collective trauma. For Palestinians, especially those in Gaza, the relentless bombardments and near-complete

Historical Resources Being On the Land: Histories at the Confluence, Symposium on the People of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers Closing the Circle: Descendants of Alex Christian—the White Grizzly, Murial Walton & Myler Wilkinson From Our Side We Will be Good Neighbour(s) to Them: Doukhobor-Sinixt Relations at the Confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers in the Early Twentieth Century, Myler

Donors to the Establishment of the Mir Centre for Peace Prominent donors BC Heritage Trust Columbia Power USCC Doukhobor community BC Hydro Regional District of Central Kootenay Castlegar Society for Self-Awareness PPWC Local 26 Human Services, Selkirk College International Education, Selkirk College Judith Harroff KMC Foundation Gordon Weese and Lydia West Peter Rezansoff Alex Rilkoff Jack and

Locally and around the world, new strategies to protect human rights and promote peaceful conflict transformation are in action. Trained Peace Professionals Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping (UCP) involves the use of trained peace professionals who use the principles of nonviolence to provide direct physical protection to civilians in a variety of contexts. Some of the strategies used include

The Mir Centre for Peace vision began in 1966 when the college inherited the buildings and site, but the rich history of this magnificent piece of land and the people who have lived here stretches back for centuries. Building a Mandate for Peace The Mir Centre was established in 1999 with the mandate of understanding and building cultures of peace through education. Mir—an ancient Russian word