Tag: Tribal College/American Indian Serving: Page 7

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Congress returns to work this month facing a litany of major education issues affecting African Americans and other students of color.

July 11, 2007

Latinx

Who speaks for you? – representatives of colored people in government’s higher education policy

The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans has a new director, but who is speaking for other underrepresented groups?

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Former state Indian Affairs official named to UND search panel

BISMARCK N.D. A tribal college president and former director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission has been appointed to the committee that will recruit the University of North Dakota’s new president.

July 2, 2007

Tribal Colleges

Connecting the Disconnected

The Internet to the Hogan project will provide Web access to residents of a Navajo reservation.

June 27, 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

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

Latinx

Minority-Serving Institutions Scrambling For Quick Funds

HSIs look for increased federal funding through NSF and farm bills.

May 30, 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

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