Cultivating Native Student Success

The cohort approach is inclusive, providing peer learning opportunities for TCUs to assist one another while respecting the process to integrate SEM into their own unique TCU culture and environment.

Holistic approach that provides space for students, institutions, and communities to contribute their own vision to the project.

Time and space for collaboration among TCU administration, and staff who have similar challenges and successes.

Aspects distinctive in a college’s plan might be values as taught to them through tradition, goals as set within their community and tribal leadership, the language in which they communicate their plans, and other cultural practices that make sense to their institution and community.

Serve their students in ways that sustain tribal cultures, language, and values that are unique to them.

Approach must be reflective and recognizable within each TCU community.

TCU and College Fund websites will reflect SEM plans and related activities, updated regularly to communicate with the community, tribal and external partners, and stakeholders to tell their story of the student journey.

Telling the student journey story: transparency of data on websites, with community stakeholders, institution and boards.

Participation in national higher education spaces to promote TCU and American Indian and Alaskan Native visibility.

Sustainable and generative positions and roles are in place at each participating TCU, informed by their SEM plans to reflect their response to capacity building. Positions include enrollment managers, institutional data managers, post graduate readiness (ie: career and transfer positions) and community liaisons.

SEM planning is a generational, dynamic process that takes time for long term vision and impact.

College Fund inclusion of programs and supports: TCU capacity committee.