Volume X Winter 1998-99 Number 2

In This Issue
Assessing Student Learning in a Cultural Environment

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Features
6 Editor's essay: Assessing the dream
By Marjane Ambler

10 Turtle Mountain faculty helps build model assessment tool By Dorreen Yellow Bird

16 Black educator shares experiences with tribal college presidents
By Marjane Ambler

18 Five colleges collaborate to improve assessment
By Marjane Ambler

32 NICC builds team to address welfare reform
By NICC staff

34 Nebraska holds onto heritage
By Kevin Cassidy

36 Survey reports tribal colleges' response to welfare reform
By Alisa F. Cunningham

Departments
14 Letters to the Editor

21 On Campus

29 Resource Guide
A Literature Guide
Resources for holding Institutions of Higher Education Accountable: How do they serve American Indian students?

By Elizabeth T. Blue and Priscilla A. Day

38 Refereed Research Department Survey reflects student development at D-Q University
By Ann Marie Machamer

44 Tribal College Profile Ford initiative inspires comparisons with Appalachia
By Judy Jones

46 Land Grant Department: Congress creates new agricultural research program
By Paul Boyer