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Native American, Indigenous Scholars Form New Interdisciplinary Association
During a three-day conference held at the University of Georgia this past weekend, Native American and indigenous scholars from around the world voted overwhelmingly to form what organizers say is the first-ever membership-based, interdisciplinary, scholarly association.
Students
Sorority Party at UND Prompts Discrimination Complaint
A group of American Indian students is upset about a University of North Dakota sorority party last fall in which students dressed up in Indian costumes and wore red makeup on their faces and bodies.
Leadership & Policy
Tribal College Leaders Bow Out of UND Advertisement, Citing Nickname
Five current and former tribal college presidents have decided not to take part in a photo shoot for a University of North Dakota student recruiting campaign because of their opposition to the Fighting Sioux nickname, a UND official says.
Native Americans
State, UW Join Push for Tribal Center at Riverton College
Plans for a long-sought American Indian center at Central Wyoming College in Riverton have gotten a boost with the University of Wyoming joining the project and the state Legislature’s approval of $1.1 million in funding.
Native Americans
The Struggle to Keep Native Students in College
Fourteen of New Mexico Highlands University’s 106 American Indian students enrolled last fall did not return for spring semester. The university is trying to figure out how to retain students who “don’t feel like they belong.”
Students
Providing a ‘Full Circle of Support’
With less than 1 percent of American Indian students majoring in the sciences, AISES founders say they are on a mission greater than themselves.
Students
Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for student scholarship through the AICF’s Tribal College Program. The monies will benefit tribal college students studying math, science, technology and business. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received an eight-year, $24 MILLION grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to […]
Students
Nevada Higher Ed Seeks Increased American Indian Enrollment
Higher education officials have formed a coalition to try to turn around the historically low number of American Indian students who go on to college in Nevada.
Native Americans
UC-Davis Scholars Working to Preserve Native Languages
The first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe’s lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried.
Native Americans
New Academic Journal Focuses on History of American Indians in South
Dr. Greg O’Brien, a University of Southern Mississippi associate professor of history, will be a founding editor of The Native South, a new academic journal that seeks to broaden and challenge the traditional study of American Indians in the South, according to a report in the Hattiesburg American.
Native Americans
Stalemate Persists Over American Indian Remains at UC Museum
Native groups want more control over repatriation process.
Native Americans
Study Reveals Low Retention Rates for Nevada’s American Indian Students
A study presented to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents shows that only 57 percent of American Indian freshmen at Nevada colleges and universities continue on to their sophomore year, according to an article in University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s student newspaper, The Rebel Yell. The rest either transfer to an out-of-state […]
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