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In May, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA, Santa Fe, NM) received a $215,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development to help develop a new welcome center for the 12-year-old campus.
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SBC Education Department Gives Lakota Foundation
When the Sitting Bull College Education Department moved into a new building last March, it was an exciting day for the staff and especially for the department chair,
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New Building at SWC Adds Form to Function
Sisseton Wahpeton College (SWC, Sisseton, SD) has added a unique building to its campus – a 50-foot high, octagon-shaped drum surrounded by a fiberglass structure representing four Dakota singers.
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Gift Will Help Complete Sisseton Voc-ed Building
Sisseton Wahpeton College (SWC) President Dr. William Harjo Lone Fight received a check for $10,000 from Dean Marske of the architectural firm Herges, Kirchgasler, Geisler &
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Red Crow Fire Destroys College Library
A fire of suspicious origin on Halloween night caused serious damage at Red Crow Community College’s library near Cardston, Alberta. At press time, the college was still trying to find out if their insurance would cover all the damage,
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Haskell Uses Cypress Logs for Cultural Center
A new cultural learning center at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS, will house the university’s collection of archives and serve as a museum.
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Stone Child College Building New Campus
As the walls rise on the new campus for Stone Child College (SCC), the hopes and dreams of the students and faculty also climb. SCC President Steve Galbavy said the new campus “is a dream come true for the community at large” on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in north central Montana.
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Student Center Could be Gathering Place
Our college is young. It is just beginning to develop as a place of higher learning. At this time, the college is a place of hope for many. I think if we had a center for all of the students to gather it would help the growth of the college.
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BIA Puts $10 Million Into New SIPI Building
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has earmarked $10 million in this year’s federal budget to construct a new Advanced Technical Education Applications Building (ATE) at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI),
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Diné College Stacks Logs for Culture Center at Tuba City
On November 29, Diné College conducted a “log-raising” ceremony at the Tuba City, Ariz., campus. The Diné College Board of Regents, representatives of the Navajo Nation,
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Facilities Focus on Capitol Hill Pays Off
A rare set of political circumstances set the stage last year for new funding opportunities for tribal colleges’ and universities’ facilities. For more than 30 years, they have been struggling with trailers and storefronts abandoned by others, receiving almost no help from the federal government. Now that has begun to change.
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SKC Constructs New Building for Art Education
Art will have a new home at Salish Kootenai College this fall. After years of planning by many cooperating groups, the art facility will open its doors with more than 9,000 square feet of interior space and over 2,000 square feet of exterior space.
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SKC Opens Environmental Laboratory
Salish Kootenai College (SKC) has taken a big step toward increasing research opportunities for faculty and students and providing an alternative funding source for science on the SKC campus.
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Blackfeet Celebrate New Campus Center
Blackfeet Community College is celebrating the grand opening of a new classroom and student services building this spring.
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IAIA Builds Cultural Center Despite Cuts
“It was like an old fashioned barn-raising,” said Della Warrior, president of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe. About 200 volunteers showed up last October to construct the first building for the institute’s new campus using mostly donated materials.
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Bay Mills Community College Constructs Heritage Library
Bay Mills Community College has constructed a three-level log heritage library supplied by local donor Hiawatha Log Homes of Munising. It is one of 29 cultural learning centers planned by the American Indian Higher Education Consoritum (AIHEC).
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OLC Meets Kresge Challenge for New Center
Oglala Lakota College (OLC) has met its goal of raising over $1.3 million in order to obtain a $650,000 Kresge Foundation challenge grant, according to OLC President Thomas Shortbull.
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IAIA Breaks Ground for New Home
Thirty-six years is a long time to be homeless, but the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N..M., will soon have a campus of its own.
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Turtle Mountain Opens Dream Campus
When the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Tribe first conceived of a tribal college, it was a simple vision: teach the language, history, and culture to the Turtle Mountain Tribe.
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N. M. Voters Fund College Construction
New Mexico voters approved a $71.2 million general obligation bond last November to support education in the state, including construction on two tribally controlled college campuses.
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Construction Begins at Crownpoint
Crownpoint Institute of Technology (CIT) has begun constructing a $6.1 million trades and technology complex at its campus on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico.
