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American Indian College Fund Awards Four Tribal Colleges with Four-Year Computer Science Initiative Grants

Jul 8, 2021 | Computer Science, Featured Post, Press Releases

Computer science education provides today’s college students the necessary skills and opportunities to thrive in today’s world. Yet American Indian and Alaska Native peoples are still and have been historically underrepresented in the computer science fields. To remedy that, the American Indian College Fund launched its Tribal College and University Computer Science Initiative to create new and expand existing computer science programs at higher education institutions serving American Indian and Alaska Native students to meet the community and workforce needs of Indigenous communities and to provide career opportunities for Native students in computer science fields.

SIPI: Supporting Our HSE Students During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Jun 23, 2021 | Blog, Indigenous Adult Education, Our Programs

By Jim Snyder, SIPI HSE Instructor Note from the editor: This blog post was written in November 2020, but could not be published at the time due to required and delayed external permissions. We are publishing it now to share SIPI’s perspective and experience of HSE...

Spring Resurgence: GED classrooms open to students

May 27, 2021 | Blog, Indigenous Adult Education, Our Programs

The Oglala Lakota College Community Continuing Education/GED department is slowly transitioning out of online-only programming as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic lessen. Now more than one GED student at a time can be in the college centers, as long as there is still only one student and tutor per classroom.

Sinte Gleska University GED Tutor Comes Full Circle

Apr 20, 2021 | Blog, Indigenous Adult Education, Our Programs

by Sherman Marshall, SGU Adult Basic Education Director For Debbie Burnette, joining Sinte Gleska University’s (SGU) Adult Basic Education (ABE) department in March 2020 was like coming home. Debbie’s connection with the ABE department goes back to 1979 when she...

Indigenous Visionary Tammy Martin Interviews Expert Weaver

Mar 4, 2021 | Blog, Our Programs

Tammy Martin, a member of the American Indian College Fund’s Indigenous Visionaries program, interviewed a fellow community member and Navajo weaver, Gloria Begay, about how her craft helped her as a Navajo woman. In their conversation Begay shared how weaving was a...

Tohono O’odham Community College’s First Student to Complete the College Credit Pathway for High School Equivalency

Mar 3, 2021 | Blog, Indigenous Adult Education, Our Programs

TOCC recently had its first student complete the CCP. Monique started the GED program in the summer of 2018. Monique had dropped out of high school three years earlier and says the bad learning environment made it difficult to care about her education.

Motivation and Perseverance

Feb 1, 2021 | Blog, Indigenous Adult Education, Our Programs

By Kateri Montileaux, OLC GED Director Although TCUs are still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic along with the rest of the world, Oglala Lakota College (OLC) has continued to make a positive impact in its communities with the Dollar General American Indian and...

Sinte Gleska University GED Tutor Identifies Keys to Student Success

Dec 10, 2020 | Indigenous Adult Education, Our Programs

Throughout her 17 years at Sinte Gleska University (SGU), GED Tutor Linda Boes has seen many changes in how students are prepared for the exam. Yet the fundamentals of working with adult learners have stayed the same. Boes works at SGU’s Adult Basic Education department’s eastern reservation offices in Gregory and Winner in South Dakota.

Indigenous ECE Family Engagement Webinar with Janice LaFloe

Nov 17, 2020 | IECE - Indigenous Early Childhood Education, Our Programs

The American Indian College Fund’s Strategic Planning and Building TCU ECE Family Engagement Grant provides TCUs support for family engagement and wellness in Native communities during the pandemic. This may include sending families early childhood learning kits, organizing virtual story time or language lessons, or assisting families with meals and basic needs.

Wave of Change through Higher Education

Oct 29, 2020 | Blog, Community Planning, Indigenous Visionaries, Student Success, Women’s Leadership

Kayla Dix (Salish) Early Education Preschool - Third Grade Education Major, Salish Kootenai College I am 29 years old and live on the Flathead Indian Reservation with my three beautiful daughters Kayci, Fallyn, and Sayla. Currently I am in my senior year at Salish...

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American Indian College Fund Awards Four Tribal Colleges with Four-Year Computer Science Initiative Grants

SIPI: Supporting Our HSE Students During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Spring Resurgence: GED classrooms open to students

Sinte Gleska University GED Tutor Comes Full Circle

Indigenous Visionary Tammy Martin Interviews Expert Weaver

Tohono O’odham Community College’s First Student to Complete the College Credit Pathway for High School Equivalency

Motivation and Perseverance

Sinte Gleska University GED Tutor Identifies Keys to Student Success

Indigenous ECE Family Engagement Webinar with Janice LaFloe

Wave of Change through Higher Education

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