On April 20, 2011, two days before the official Earth Day holiday, Tohono O’odham Community College (TOCC, Sells, AZ) held its own celebration, Cem Hegid ’O Nu:kudad g Jewed (Environmental Sustainability). The event highlighted three service learning projects and served as an environmental awareness event and recycling fair. The service learning projects were planned by faculty (more)
In July 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded Sitting Bull College (SBC, Fort Yates, ND) a $300,000 Workforce Development and Job Training Grant to promote green jobs on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The funds will be used to develop a training program that will teach students environmental cleanup skills and assist with (more)
HEALTH SCHOLARS. Four of the American Indian College Fund’s United Health Foundation Scholarship Program participants traveled to Washington, DC, in June for the United Health Diverse Scholars Forum on Innovations in Chronic Disease Care and Prevention. From left: Karen King, a graduate of Diné College who is pursuing nursing studies at Northern Arizona University; Nizhoni (more)
A team of students from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA, Santa Fe, NM) went to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for 10 weeks last summer as part of a NASA internship program arranged by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). “It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them,” according to AIHEC CEO (more)
Sitting Bull College (SBC, Fort Yates, ND) alumnus Dereck Stonefish is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University (NDSU), where he has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. In awarding the fellowship, the National Science Foundation (NSF) noted that Stonefish’s selection “was based (more)
A number of educational institutions have focused on trying to increase the under-representation of American Indians in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Salish Kootenai College (SKC, Pablo, MT) is making inroads in addressing this pressing issue. In November 2010, SKC was granted full accreditation for its new Bachelor of Science Degree (more)
Rolenthea Begay (Diné), a student in the United Tribes Technical College (UTTC, Bismarck, ND) Teacher Education Program, was awarded the 2011 David M. Gipp Leadership Fellowship. The honor is a privately funded award for students who demonstrate leadership potential in their home communities and during their college work at United Tribes Technical College. Begay was (more)
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has provided a $5 million grant award to the American Indian College Fund (the Fund) to support four early childhood education projects located at tribal colleges and universities and serving Native children. Initial grant awards of $800,000 per college over a period of four years will be awarded to four tribal (more)
Crow and Northern Cheyenne archaeology students last August cleared rustcolored topsoil from a Bighorn Canyon hearth that likely dated back 2,000 years. Stones from the ancient fire pit were clustered together at the bottom of a survey square barely a foot below the surface and near a buffalo jump discovered by National Park Service (NPS) (more)
Thirty-six tribal college library personnel representing 27 different institutions attended the 21st annual Tribal College Librarians Institute (TCLI) on the Montana State University (MSU) campus in Bozeman, MT, June 6 – 10, 2011. The participants traveled from across the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. A panel of people from First Nations institutions in Canada (more)
