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By joining the Better Climate Challenge, TCUs can partner with the DOE to reduce portfolio-wide greenhouse emissions by at least 50% within 10 years.
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Leadership in Food, Energy and Water Systems
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is focusing efforts on supporting tribal climate resilience through a number of projects that involve engagement of this broad set of resilience stakeholders.
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Rising Voices Conference to Engage Environmental Justice
The workshop will focus on themes of centering justice in Indigenous and place-based methodologies, intergenerational practices, and data sovereignty.
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AIHEC and Partners to Offer Course on Climate Change Adaptation
The course introduces planning for climate change impacts, with examples of how tribes have approached the adaptation planning process.
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Verna Fowler on Sustainability
A giant of the tribal college movement, the founding president of College of Menominee Nation discusses her people’s long tradition of sustainability.
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Confluence for Climate Education: Aaniiih Nakoda College Addresses Our Changing Environment
A new baccalaureate program in Aaniiih Nakoda ecology is blending cutting edge science with traditional knowledge, while offering myriad field work opportunities in Montana and abroad that enhance student learning and improve sustainability on the Fort Belknap reservation.
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Daniel Wildcat: Champion for Climate Change Education
A beloved educator at Haskell Indian Nations University, Dr. Wildcat looks back at the development of the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group and the important role tribal colleges can play moving forward.
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Taking to the Skies: Atmospheric Research and Environmental Science at Sitting Bull College
Through its environmental science programs, strides in wind energy, and new Facility for Innovative Atmospheric Research and Education, Sitting Bull College is building a brighter future for its students.
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A Tale of Two Cultures
In this climate crisis the choices we make are more critical than ever. Fortunately, history offers lessons on where we have been and where we may be headed.
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SBC Fights Climate Change with Agroforestry
The course examines agroforestry systems that involve growing both woody herbaceous species and perennials in association with food crops, livestock, insects, and fish on the same parcel of land.
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First National Tribal Climate Conference Held Online
Last fall, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals at Northern Arizona University hosted the United States’ first biennial National Tribal and Indigenous Climate Conference with support from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Resilience Program.
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Implementing More Equitable IPEDS Race / Ethnicity Reporting Standards for Tribal Colleges and Universities
This TCJ-exclusive original study illuminates how IPEDS race/ethnicity reporting standards fail to account for tribal colleges’ unique mission, putting them at a disadvantage for funding.
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Calling All Climate Warriors
Every environmentalist knows that caring about the world can become draining quickly. But we must persist and be warriors for Mother Earth, our non-human relatives, and future generations.
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AIHEC Builds Climate Resilience Network
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is working with tribal colleges and universities to establish the Native Climate Resilience Network (NCRN) with funding from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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AIHEC partners with feds on climate change
With funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) have partnered to bring tribal colleges and universities into the climate-change-education community established by the Climate,
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Curiosity Prevails Over Despair
The signs of climate change hung heavy in the skies of New Mexico this summer. As flood waters overtook communities in North Dakota and Montana and tornadoes cut a swath across the South and Midwest,
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Changing Planet, Common Ground
Western climate scientists have embraced knowledge that natural systems are connected. But differences between Western and Native science still remain.
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Leading the Way: Tribal colleges prepare students to address climate change
Tribal colleges are developing the opportunities necessary to produce the next generation of American Indian scientists dedicated to the study of climate change.
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Tribal Colleges Address Essential Challenges
Tribal college presidents focus on sustainability — and many are signing on to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.
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NICC students studying impacts of climate change
The signals of climate change are all around us. An unmistakable sign of long-term change within weather patterns was seen last spring and summer in the flooding along the mighty Missouri River.
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Transformative Travel: Experiences in Mexico, NYC change students’ lives
Students plant the seeds of collaboration, blossom outside their comfort zones, and discover up close what makes communities, nations work.
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Teachers Can Access Free Climate Digital Videos
Several tribal college student filmmakers are contributing to a national digital video resource on climate change for teachers, “Where Words Touch the Earth.” The materials by the tribal colleges and other institutions are available free to teachers on the “Teachers’ Domain” website.
