Volume 12, No. 1 – Fall 2000
When President Bill Clinton visited Dine College April 17, he announced several major new initiatives to bring digital opportunity to American Indian reservations by way of the 32 tribal colleges and universities in the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC).
Kellogg Foundation administrator Dr. Tyrone Baines reflects on the life-changing lessons he learned during his work on NAHEI and the importance of meaningfully formed cultural notions.
Now in it’s fifth year, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Native American Higher Education Initiative is attempting to fundamentally rewrite the way foundations do business with Indian communities.
When Rick Williams (Oglala Lakota) started work as the executive director for the American Indian College Fund several years ago, he said that he was working for institutions that created hope on reservations.
Being selected as a Morris K. Udall Foundation Native American Congressional Intern for the summer of 1999 was a dream come true for Justin Finkbonner of the Lummi Nation in western Washington.
“Our education is different. I would say that 95 percent is hands-on learning. It’s just like being on the job,” according to Crownpoint Institute of Technology President James Tutt.
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