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The Institute of American Indian Arts hired an independent consulting firm earlier this year to measure the institute’s economic impact locally and nationally. The report said that the institute generates $15 million per year in economic activity in the state of New Mexico.
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AIHEC Student Congress Celebrates 10 Years
Ten years ago, students at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium annual conference in Rapid City, S.D., suggested the idea of a student congress. They wanted an organization to promote student involvement in all aspects of American Indian education and tribal community development.
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Educating the Mind and Spirit
The American Indian College Fund has launched a new advertising campaign, “Educating the Mind and Spirit,” that focuses upon the dual worlds in which Native students live,
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Dull Knife Students Practice Critical Thinking
Students at Dull Knife Memorial College are mastering academic writing skills by learning in collaboration. Students taking Composition II classes at Dull Knife (a tribal college in central Montana) share rough drafts of their essays with students taking the same class at Miles Community College (a non-Indian school in Montana).
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Turtle Mountain Graduates Continue Schooling
Wayne J. Stein, author of the book Tribal Colleges–Making Good Medicine, was the graduation speaker at the Turtle Mountain Community College in May 1996.
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Haskell Broadcasts Environmental Program
The first satellite program broadcast from the campus of Haskell Indian Nations University focused on water quality issues throughout reservations and American Indian communities. “An Environmental Legacy for our Grandchildren”
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Blackfeet Classes Held in Snow
The Blackfeet Community College moved its classes to the traditional setting of the Ami Skapi Pukuni (Southern Blackfeet) during the second week of May. The event known as Blackfeet Days began after many students asked about Plains Indian culture before contact with non-Natives.
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Little Big Horn Ventures Into Cyberspace
In April Little Big Horn College Library completed installation of Internet access. The worldwide resources now complement the library’s electronic card catalogue, which links the collections of six college libraries in eastern Montana.
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Red Crow Renovates Historic Building
Red Crow Community College has embarked on a project to convert a 72-year old, historic building–Saint Paul Residential School–into an apartment complex. Red Crow, AIHEC’s only Canadian college,
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Fort Berthold Doubles its Campus
Work began this summer on a 27,526 square foot addition to Fort Berthold Community College in New Town, N.D. The Three Affiliated Tribes took out a $2.5 million loan to pay for the work,
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South Dakota Dollars Under Fire
When the four accredited tribal colleges in South Dakota convinced the state legislature to help support non-Indian students at their institutions, they felt they had won a significant victory.
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Bay Mills Loses State Support
For more than 15 years, the state of Michigan has paid tuition for Indian students at colleges throughout the state as an incentive for higher education.
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Fort Peck Students Honored for Research
For the past two years at Fort Peck Community College students have been performing experiments on salamanders that regenerate their limbs. They have been investigating factors that influence the pattern of the regenerated limb.
