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“Let the rain dissolve my skin, let the beetles and worms break me down in every way, so I can finally give back to the prairie grass that whispered prayers into my night skies.”
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American Indian College Fund Announces TCU Faculty Fellow Cohort
The fellows are working to increase the academic capacity of their respective tribal colleges by pursuing higher or terminal degrees.
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TCU Esports League Hosts Logo Design Contest
League organizers are inviting all tribal college and university faculty, staff, and students to submit logo design entries by December 16.
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Sitting Bull College Receives $75,000 for Scholarship Endowment
The donation comes as part of Sitting Bull College’s ongoing Scholarship Endowment Campaign, which launched on December 1, 2024.
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Longtime Tribal College Leader Ron His Horse Is Thunder Walks On
A descendant of Sitting Bull, His Horse Is Thunder (Hunkpapa Lakota) was an educator, lawyer, activist, and advocate for Native American rights and culture.
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Tribal Colleges Preparing for More Federal Budget Cuts
The school presidents say they’re worried about how federal cuts could impact faculty and programs, along with Pell grants and scholarships.
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SD Tribal Colleges Host AIHEC Conference
The theme of the conference is “Ancient Wisdom, Foundation of Our Future: Sovereignty, Unity, and Strength for Future Generations.
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Sitting Bull College Students visit the North Dakota Supreme Court
The Criminal Justice students, led by instructor Brandon Hunter, watched a scheduled oral argument.
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ND Tribal College System Releases 2024 Economic Impact Study
The study found that from 2022-2023 Tribal Colleges added $169.5 million to North Dakota’s economy, the equivalent of supporting 2,106 jobs.
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USDA to Contribute Over One Million to Four Tribal Colleges in North Dakota
The colleges to receive the funds will be the United Tribes Technical College, Turtle Mountain College, Cankdeska Cikana Community College and Sitting Bull College.
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UND, Tribal Colleges Get $1M Grant for Indigenous Humanities Education
“The grant provides a foundation to enhance tribal college and university capacity to enhance humanities offerings, as well as archival, and digital archival efforts, on tribal campuses on behalf of our respective nations,” said Leander McDonald, president of United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck.
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Turning A Corner in Language Revitalization: Sitting Bull College’s Lakota Language Capacity Building Initiative
Today, most language revitalization programs focus on children. Sitting Bull College’s Lakota Language Capacity Building Initiative, however, takes a novel approach, targeting adult learners.
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Sitting Bull College Names New President
As SBC celebrates 50 years, Dr. Tomi Kay Phillips is stepping into her new role as the college’s leader, bringing a multitude of talents and experience with her.
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College Fund Program Supports Native Teacher Education and Employment
The American Indian College Fund is seeking to increase the number of Native students pursuing teaching careers and to ensure the continuity and sustainability of Indigenous knowledge and lifeways in Native communities.
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Connections and Corrections in the Digital Age: Criminal Justice Student Success at Tribal Colleges and Universities
The criminal justice programs at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College and Sitting Bull College took steps to develop their baseline remoting skills and adapt to students’ needs and learning styles, enabling them to adjust successfully in changing times.
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North Dakota Tribal College System Announces Statewide Apprenticeship Program in Partnership with Hess Corporation, Halliburton and Nabors Industries
Over the next four years, Hess will invest $12 million to provide tuition assistance, stipends and other support for establishing apprenticeships in a variety of industries designed by each of the state’s five tribal colleges based on the local job market and needs of their tribal communities.
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Sitting Bull College to Establish Prairie Ecosystem Research Center
The $3.5 million NSF grant will expand the college’s research capacity and establish a research center on the SBC college campus.
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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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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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A Case-Study in Community Needs-Based Research: Sitting Bull College’s Lakota Language Capacity Building Initiative
Sitting Bull College’s Lakota Language Capacity Building Initiative is an NSF-Funded project geared toward turning a corner in Lakota language revitalization while at the same time contributing to the documentation of Indigenous languages in the United States.
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Sitting Bull College Offers Online Student Support Services
Student support staff said they’ve used this pandemic as an opportunity to create more enhanced and robust online services. Students are now able to take advantage of academic counseling, tutoring and counseling via Zoom, phone or email.
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Sitting Bull College Installs Temperature Taking Kiosk in Every Building
“Every student, every morning and staff and faculty, they get a health check warning. So they have to go through, and they have to enter whether or not they have any symptoms and based upon whether they have symptoms or not they get a clear or not clear,” said SBC vice president of operations Koreen Ressler.
