At a time when American Indians are drastically underrepresented in the hard sciences, and as federal agencies show interest in addressing the issue, Salish Kootenai College’s success in starting a four-year life sciences degree program virtually from scratch can offer guidance to other tribal colleges wishing to establish similar programs.

At the College of Menominee Nation, instructors, students, and elders are using technology to restore language.

Partnering with museums and Indiana University, AIHEC has helped create e-Humanity, an online cultural portal.

For 11 years, a project at Sinte Gleska University has been recording, transcribing, and translating the Lakota language.

At Navajo Technical College, students are using technology to ensure the Diné’s cultural survival.

Recently, I witnessed many Native people of all ages and tribes sharing Native intellectual knowledge of generosity, talent, leadership, and spirituality at the gathering of the Woksape Oyate. Lakota for “Wisdom of the People,” Woksape Oyate is a project of the American Indian College Fund meant to build intellectual capital at tribal colleges.

Oglala Lakota College instructor describes the advantages, disadvantages, and best practices for online teaching at tribal colleges.

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)

In a corner office at Salish Kootenai College, students meet with Student Success Specialist Jason Heavy Runner to talk about the results of their college placement tests.

A crucial part of the Environments Science Program’s recruitment and retention tool is the opportunity for students to conduct individual research.