Delivering advanced education programs in Northern Canada comes with unique challenges, but for Instructor Ried Nelson, who teaches the Essential Office Skills program on location in Nunavut, through a partnership between Coast Mountain College and the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, working through those challenges is just one part of what makes the job so rewarding.

Four Coast Mountain College alumni will join other women carvers from the Northwest Coast for an exhibition at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, BC titled CURVE! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast. Arlene Ness, Cherish Alexander, Stephanie Anderson, and Veronica Waechter are displaying pieces alongside other iconic female carvers, including Ellen Neel, Freda Diesing, and Doreen Jensen, in the upcoming show.

On November 14, 2024, the CMTN Foundation hosted its annual Major Donor Recognition and Student Awards Night Dinner in Terrace. This fall Coast Mountain College had another record adjudication with 115 different awards being given to 84 unique students, 57 of whom self-identified as Indigenous. The total award value was $130,825!

Coast Mountain College (CMTN) has received the final seal of approval from the BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) to offer the the Practical Nursing Diploma Program. The first cohort of the program will begin classes in January 2025.

Dene’Tum was just 12 years old when he was taken from his parents and sent to residential school. In this student profile, he describes his life and struggles during adolescence and early adulthood, and how he had to leave everything behind to choose healing. Disclaimer: The following story discusses topics including residential schools, drug use, and violence, and may affect some readers.

CMTN alumnus Brittany Johnson shares her experience in the Education Assistant Program and working in the school system in Hazelton, BC.

Earlier this year at Coast Mountain College, Kwakwaka’wakw artist Lou-ann Neel was reunited with a rough cut of a model totem pole carved almost 100 years ago by her grandmother, Ellen Neel. First Nations Fine Arts Program Coordinator Nakkita Trimble-Wilson and Program Officer Kelli Louie facilitated this reunion, after being given the totem pole by a resident of northern Alberta.

CMTN is pleased to join the Western Canada Mobility Network, a network that offers attending students of participating colleges access and means to participate in their studies abroad while earning full academic credit.