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Section: Demographics > Native Americans
Leadership & Policy
Request For American Indian Presence In UND Search Denied
GRAND FORKS, N.D. The president of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education says the membership of a 16-member committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president will not be changed, despite a request that an American Indian be added.
June 25, 2007
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Clinton opens “Frontiers of Opportunity” for tribal colleges – Bill Clinton, federal grants to Native American schools
After two decades of prayers, politicking and impassioned pleas, tribal colleges have gained greater access to federal grants under an executive order signed by President Clinton.
June 23, 2007
Native Americans
Wired for controversy: symbolic sculpture by Native American rejected by University of New Mexico – Barbed
The University of New Mexico has rejected a sculpture it had commissioned from a Native-American artist because his final product includes barbed wire.
June 23, 2007
Leadership & Policy
UND search committee hopes to finish early next year
The president of the state Board of Higher Education says the membership of a 16-member committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president will not be changed, despite a request that an American Indian be added.
June 21, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Tribal College Honors American Indian Veterans
KYLE S.D. A monument honoring more than 1,800 American Indian military veterans will be dedicated Saturday six miles southwest of Kyle at the administrative headquarters of Oglala Lakota College.
June 20, 2007
Native Americans
Search For New UND President Needs American Indian Voice
BISMARCK, N.D. The president of United Tribes Technical College says the committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president should include an American Indian.
June 17, 2007
Native Americans
Bringing the Global Market to Native Lands
At the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a group of college entrepreneurs are preparing to enter the global market by launching an American Indian news service — and without ever having to step foot off the reservation.
May 23, 2007
Students
In Fairness
Tribal college leaders criticize proposal to fund nontribal institutions with 10 percent American Indian student enrollment.
May 16, 2007
Native Americans
And North Dakota Makes Four
It seems that the long battle for state support of tribal colleges is beginning to slowly pay off for American Indian leaders and supporters.
May 13, 2007
Native Americans
We Want to be Included, Say Women Tribal Leaders
ATLANTA Four women from American Indian tribes came together in a panel organized by Spelman College on Wednesday to ask Americans not to forget about them in conversations about diversity and race.
May 10, 2007
Students
Documenting American Indian Success
AIHEC says it has all the data federal officials need to determine that tribal colleges are grant-worthy.
May 2, 2007
Native Americans
Antioch’s Seattle Campus Chooses First American Indian Woman College Head
Dr. Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet of the Navajo, or Dine, tribe appears to be the first American Indian woman to be appointed president of a mainstream university outside of the tribal college system. She was named this month to lead Antioch University Seattle from a pool of more than 40 candidates. She formally begins her presidency July 15.
April 29, 2007
Students
“Rez Ball” Gains NCAA Certification Thanks to Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI)
If all goes according to plan, the term “Rez Ball” may soon become part of the mainstream lexicon. The Native American Basketball Invitational, founded in 2003, is helping to bring Indian Country’s unique variation of basketball to the outside world. Long played on Indian reservations, rez ball has finally been certified by the NCAA.
April 9, 2007
Native Americans
‘On The Rez’
The American Indian College Fund’s campaign brings donors to tribal colleges for first-person peek at what their money can do.
April 4, 2007
Native Americans
Critics Blast Cherokee Nation For Ousting Freedmen From Tribal Rolls
Congressional Black Caucus asks U.S. Dept. of the Interior to investigate “validity.”
April 4, 2007
Native Americans
Report: Investing in American Indian Students Improves Their Health, Income
WASHINGTON, D.C. Higher education can drive economic and social development for all American Indian communities, according to a recent study released by The Institute for Higher Education Policy.
April 2, 2007
Native Americans
Just the Stats: Investment in STEM Programs at Tribal Colleges Working
A new study shows that investment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at tribal colleges boosts the number of American Indians pursuing STEM degrees.
March 27, 2007
Native Americans
Recognizing Tribally Centered Cultures
Morehouse is expanding its admissions process to include interviews of all serious candidates. The school says it won’t make a decision on anyone until the prospective student has had a conversation — either in person or over the phone — with a school official or an alumnus who has been through recruitment training.
March 21, 2007
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