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Katherine Campbell focuses on principles instilled within her by her parents as she pursues her own education and vision to improve education for all Indian students.
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UTTC Art Students to Replicate Artifacts
Five art/art marketing students from United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) and their instructors spent the summer re-creating history. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation has contracted with UTTC to make museum quality reproductions of artifacts collected during Lewis and Clark’s journey through the area in 1804-1806.
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Students Serve as Mr. and Ms. AIHEC
Role models play an important part of any culture. Role models inspire us. They help us reach our goals. Each year at its annual conference,
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Family Matters: Fort Peck Community College tests holistic approach to student success
An expansion of long-established ideas surrounding support for Head Start children shows promise to increase student retention through a blend of social work knowledge and education practices.
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Of the Community, By the Community, and For the Community
After graduating from high school, I attended a small, liberal arts state college in Durango, Colo., and subsequently the University of Colorado in Boulder. Fort Lewis College perches on a mesa above the town of Durango.
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Bruce Benson: Building a legacy, trading in the past
Bruce Benson’s name once was synonymous with TROUBLE. Beginning in his teens, Benson had a reputation for drinking and fighting, spending as much time in jail (and later the penitentiary) as he did at home. Whenever there was trouble on the reservation, his name was on everyone’s lips.
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Balancing the Books
A mother of five, Rose Atkinson is thriving under the dual responsibilities of motherhood and full-time student.
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Not Just Another Wannabe
One of the two valedictorians at the Navajo Community College graduation this spring looked a little out of place. Like the other graduates, she was dressed in traditional Navajo attire: a cotton three-layered skirt, moccasins, and turquoise jewelry. Unlike most of the other students, however, Maribel came to the Navajo community by choice, not by birth.
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Expecting More From Herself
When Monica Whirlwind Horse was in high school, no one voted her “most likely to succeed.” In fact, she dropped out of school before the vote was taken. “I was really wild, a terrible student, and I hated school,” she says. She was the type that teachers shake their heads over, and parents don’t want their children associating with.
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Making the Environment Her Business
Like all parents with young children, Annette Bryan thinks about the future. But as a Puyallup tribal member, Annette’s dreams reach a little farther.
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Beating the Odds: College offers two older students a second chance
In tribal colleges, older students are the rule, not the exception. If Arlene Fogg and Steve Waupekenay are any indication, the older students are often motivated to better not only their own lives but also their families’.
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Field Trip: Of Badlands, boilermakers and the meaning of education
Lise Erdrich recalls “The Excursion” that capped an introduction to geology course at Turtle Mountain Community College years ago.
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Returning the Favor: A Salish Kootenai College graduate returns to help the next generation of students
“I like working with college students,” says Lois Slater. “It hasn’t been that long since I was a poor college student. It seemed like I was always scared until I found someone who gave me good advice on financial aid or counseling or teachers.” The Salish Kootenai alumna is now the director of the Career Planning and Placement center.
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Awed by the Past, Looking to the Future
Anna Jefferson enrolled at Northwest Indian College with an interest in computer programming, but will leave with a fascination for basketweaving. Still, Jefferson says, the most important lessons learned are more personal.
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Serving Students Means Thinking about Communities
For tribal colleges, service to students must mean more than providing classrooms and Coke machines. In many reservation communities the path from school to college and beyond is often blocked by barriers rarely associated with “typical”
