Freshman enrollment dropped more than 25% across Montana tribal colleges and universities last fall, and nationwide all Native American student enrollment experienced the largest drops nationwide. Montana Public Radio reporter Aaron Bolton speaks to President Cheryl Crazy Bull of the American Indian College Fund, tribal college presidents, and tribal college students about how COVID-19 and the digital divide in Montana’s rural reservation areas fueled many students’ decisions not to enroll or return to college last fall. https://www.marketplace.org/2021/04/14/native-american-community-colleges-see-enrollment-declines-because-of-covid-19/
National Day of Racial Healing
From Wounded Knee to the civil rights era, American Indians and Alaska Natives are no strangers to either institutional harm or the need to use the system to make their voices heard. On this National Day of Racial Healing, learn from the examples of our elders and ancestors how to stay safe while continually pushing for your rights and self-actualization.
