Calling all students! TCUs and TCU students need your voice in Washington. Both Haskell Indian Nations University and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, the nation’s oldest and only federally operated tribal colleges, are facing an immediate crisis due to the implementation of EO 14210 and the White House memo on hiring freezes.
To help, all you need to do is make a few quick phone calls.
Follow these steps and call TODAY.
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- Call your elected representative and senators at their Congressional Offices and ask for their Legislative Director. To find your representative and senators, use the USA Gov tool.
- Use this script for each call to your representative and senators:
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- Hello, my name is (blank). My zip code is (tell them your zip code) and I am a tribal college student at (tell them the name of your TCU).
- Haskell Indian Nations University and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, the Nation’s oldest and only federally chartered Tribal Colleges are in a crisis due to the implementation of EO 14210 and the White House memo on hiring freezes.
- In the last week, each institution lost over 24 percent of its staff – including student safety personnel and instructors.
- This is preventing the colleges’ ability to provide courses, programs, and student support services—and interfering with students’ completion of a higher education they paid for.
- I am requesting that Haskell and SIPI be exempted from the hiring freeze and that terminated employees due to EO 14210 be reinstated.
- If you need additional information, you can contact Moriah O’Brien, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium’s VP of Congressional and Federal Relations, at MOBrien@aihec.org or 703-838-0400.
- Thank you for your time! I appreciate your help.
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