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This issue brief first contextualizes the important progress TCUs have made in Indian Country, then describes important inequities in federal, state, and local funding that limit these institutions’ ability to further their impact on the tribal communities they are chartered to serve.
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Mars in New Mexico: SIPI Students Transform Desert Into Martian Landscape
In the institute’s engineering and technology programs use red dirt from the surrounding hills to reconstruct the Martian landscape. They call it the Mars Yard.
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American Indian College Fund Launches New Ad Campaign
The American Indian College Fund’s new advertising campaign centers around a staggering statistic—less than one percent of college students are American Indian. In an effort to increase Native college enrollment, the College Fund partnered with Portland-based advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy to create a public service announcement.
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Tribal College Students Face Challenges to Graduate
Tribal colleges face different challenges and a greater lack of resources than most other higher education institutions. When tribal colleges lack resources, it’s graduation rates that suffer.
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Free Community College? Congress Thinking About It – ICTMN.com
Congress has taken up President Barack Obama’s call to make community college free and available to everyone by introducing legislation that would have the federal government pay 75 percent of tuition and fees for most students and 95 percent for most American Indian/Alaska Native students at tribal colleges. The rest of the tab would be picked up by states or tribes.
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College Scorecard May Give Misleading Information on Tribal Colleges
The scorecard is the result of President Barack Obama’s effort, announced in 2013, to rate U.S. colleges and universities as “high performing,” “low performing” or “in the middle” so students and families could figure out whether they would be getting their money’s worth in an endeavor that often represents a significant investment of the family’s resources.
