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Section: Demographics > Native Americans
Tribal Colleges
Indigenous Scholars Push for Visibility on Campus and Call for New Metrics of Success
Panelists spoke about the damages of stereotyping, how institutions can use culturally based methodologies to assess a Native student’s success, and the difficulties of gathering data that does not present the sovereign Indian nations as a monolithic.
November 17, 2021
Native Americans
Helping Others Center Indigenous Nation Communities in Their Research Practices
Native scholars came together to author a guidebook that offers best practice suggestions for how to conduct research on tribal lands.
November 11, 2021
Native Americans
Stakeholders Work To Boost Higher Education Attainment Rates Among Native Americans
In 1993, Dwight K. Lomayesva founded the American Indian Recruitment (AIR) programs with his wife.
November 10, 2021
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Haskell Indian Nations Professor Fights Climate Change Through Indigenous Land Ethic
A Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, Dr. Daniel Wildcat has been a sociology professor at Haskell Indian Nations University for about three decades now, but his influence has since echoed to a national scale.
November 5, 2021
Native Americans
Storyteller Brings Native History to Life at RIT
Perry Ground is an educator who has dedicated his career to bringing traditional indigenous stories to life.
October 27, 2021
Native Americans
$3K Scholarships To Be Awarded to 20 Descendants of Native American Boarding School Survivors
October 26, 2021
Tribal Colleges
Missing and Murdered Haunt Tribal Nations
Thousands of indigenous people have vanished or have been found murdered. And students at TCUs fight for justice.
October 12, 2021
News Roundup
Tribal Law and Economics Program Launches at George Mason University
October 12, 2021
Native Americans
Seven Tribes Request U of Alabama Return Human Remains From Archaeological Site
October 11, 2021
Asian American Pacific Islander
Researchers Engage Natives in Alzheimer's Research
September 7, 2021
Native Americans
California Native American Commission Investigates CSU's Treatment of Sacred Land
August 24, 2021
Native Americans
Diné College Offers Students a Chance at a Tuition-Free Spring Semester
Diné College is offering its fall 2021 full-time students a tuition-free spring semester in 2022 if they maintain a minimum 2.0 GPA. This comes on top of an additional 50% discount on fall tuition and a 50% residential discount for student housing.
August 11, 2021
Native Americans
Montana State University Receives $2.2M Grant to Recruit and Retain Alaska Native and American Indian Nurses
The United States Health Resources and Services Administration gifted a $2.2 million grant to Montana State University (MSU) to recruit and retain more Alaska Native and American Indian nurses. Using the four-year Nursing Workforce Diversity grant, 15 American Indian and Alaska Native nursing students enrolled in MSU College of Nursing’s Caring for Our Own Program […]
August 5, 2021
Native Americans
Broadband Access Still A Struggle for Tribal Colleges and Universities, 18 Months Into the Pandemic
Tribal Colleges and Universities have become experts at navigating slim resources, but even eighteen months into a pandemic that continues to wreak havoc on higher education, access to internet remain an obstacle for many of these institutions.
August 1, 2021
Native Americans
Colorado’s Fort Lewis College Considers Search for Indigenous Remains on Campus
With searches of federal archives and newspaper records underway for two former indigenous boarding schools in Colorado, Fort Lewis College (FLC) in Durango says it is considering a search for the remains of indigenous children on its campus, reports 9NEWS. The news comes after a tragic discovery in Canada earlier this year when a team […]
July 20, 2021
Native Americans
UVA Removes ‘Racist’ Conqueror of The Northwest Statue From Campus
The University of Virginia’s statue of Revolutionary War figure George Rogers Clark was removed from its campus, following the City of Charlottesville’s removal of two Confederate statues and one of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea, reports the university’s student newspaper The Cavelier Daily. Erected in 1921, “the statue depicts Clark on horseback with a crew behind […]
July 12, 2021
Native Americans
The American Indian College Fund Takes On Computer Science
Native Americans are historically underrepresented in the field of computer science, but a grant to four Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) from the American Indian College Fund looks to reverse that trend with the TCU Computer Science Initiative. “Computer science is foundational to so many aspects of life today. Everything from information technology, to entertainment, […]
July 8, 2021
African-American
Emory University Plans to Address Racially Fraught Past With Name Changes, Memorials and Land Acknowledgements
Emory University announced this week that it will be making several plans to reconcile with its racially fraught past, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. One of these plans include the renaming of several buildings. Emory will rename Language Hall on its Oxford College in honor of the late Horace J. Johnson Jr., who became the first […]
June 30, 2021
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