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Five tribal colleges have received grants from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) to improve their facilities. Stone Child College (Box Elder,
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Si Tanka, 3 Programs Receive Accreditation
Si Tanka University (STU) received 5-year accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA) in June 2004.
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Student Journalists Chosen as Interns
Fifty-two college students of color were chosen to work in internships at 34 daily newspapers across the country in the Summer 2004 Chips Quinn Scholars program.
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Small, Rural, Close, But Not Safe: Community-based educational programs are breaking rules to fight AIDS
Could AIDS be the next smallpox epidemic? Tribal colleges are turning to culture and elders to make sure that it won’t.
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Si Tanka/Huron Receives Accreditation
Si Tanka/Huron University was notified in February that its accreditation had been approved by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
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Survey of Tribal Colleges Reveals Research’s Benefits, Obstacles
A survey across tribal colleges reveals the obstacles and benefits of doing research. The authors contend that the extent to which the research enterprise becomes an insitutionalized part of the tribal college will directly affect the potential for growth.
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Si Tanka College Purchases Huron University
Si Tanka College, a small tribal college in South Dakota, has purchased Huron University, a private university in the northeastern corner of the state. When the sale was finalized in May,
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Red Bear Inspires Youth Anti-Smoking Movement
Si Tanka college’s smoking prevention program aimed at youth has far wider reach.
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Teacher Corps Marks ‘End of Dark Ages’
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded three-year grants to 26 colleges and universities to create the American Indian Teacher Corps. Janine Pease-Pretty on Top,
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Oceans Apart, Minds Together: Building ties with Namibia
As my plane descended, I thought I was coming down on to the Northern Great Plains where I live. The Namibian landscape consisted of rolling grasslands with rocky escarpments in the distance. In the vast open space, the savanna extended beyond the horizon, exactly like the prairie does back home in western South Dakota. All was grassland and open sky. All looked familiar.
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NASA Supports Si Tanka Science Degrees
In coordination with South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Si Tanka College faculty is developing degrees in environmental science and computer science over the next 3½ years,
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Entrepreneurship Scholarships Announced
The Theodore R. & Vivian M. Johnson Scholarship Foundation has awarded 20 Tribal College Entrepreneurship Scholarship grants for the 1999-2000 school year, the fifth year that such grants have been awarded.
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Cultivating Generations: Community gardening on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
It was a hot, sultry June morning in Eagle Butte, S.D. The spring in western South Dakota had been unusually bountiful with moisture–and weeds that threatened to choke out Eagle Butte’s Community Garden. One volunteer sharpened a hoe, another picked potato bugs off struggling young plants while a third attempted to start an old rotary tiller. And so the morning went—weed suppression, cultivation, and bug picking.
