2024 TCU Faculty Convening
10th Annual TCU Faculty Convening | May 21-23, 2024
The 10th annual TCU faculty convening was held in collaboration with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. The 2024 TCU Faculty and Student Success Convening brought together 85 leaders, staff, and faculty from 26 tribal colleges and universities to discuss research, best practices, and lessons learned. In addition to the numerous general sessions and breakout sessions, the convening included a panel of four TCU presidents who discussed the future of tribal colleges, a keynote by data sovereignty advocate Dr. Krystal Tsosie, and a visit to the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
The presentations are listed below in alphabetical order by presenter.
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Presentations
Conference Welcome and History of Tribal Colleges
Cheryl Crazy Bull, President and CEO, College Fund
Building the Broadband Infrastructure for Distance Education and Implementation of Federal Requirements at Navajo Technical University (part of the roundtable on “Digital Infrastructure at TCUs”)
Coleen Arviso and Jason Arviso, Navajo Technical University
Keeping Culture and Quality at the Heart of Mentorship for Indigenous Students (recorded after the convening)
Katie Carty-Fisher, Bay Mills Community College
Setting Up Research Administration at a TCU (part of the roundtable on “Research at TCUs”)
Andrea Christelle, Diné College
Equitable Grading Strategies that Honor Traditional Ways of Learning
Earle Crosswait, Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College
Student Mentorship and Faculty Belonging: Developing Confidence of Non-Indigenous Team Members as a Student Success Strategy (part of the roundtable on “Student Mentorship and Faculty Belonging”)
Jaime Davis, Iļisaġvik College
Driving TCU Missions with Culturally Grounded Assessment Practices
Rebecca Garvoille and Kayla Alkire-Stewart, College Fund; Ace Charette, Turtle Mountain Community College; Stephen Wall, Institute of American Indian Arts; and Leah Woodke, United Tribes Technical College
Educational Sovereignty: A Stronger Self Determination for Tribal Colleges
Jim Green, Sinte Gleska University
The Role of Benchmarking in Student Success and Accreditation
Edward Hummingbird, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute and Michelle Taylor and Jacquelyn Eidson, National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute
Aseto’ne Virtual Institute at AIHEC and Pria Rainbow
Eric Johnson, AIHEC and David Clarke, Praxis AI
Overview of Programs at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Darius Taylor, AIHEC
Sleeping Sovereignty: Indigenous Sovereignty and International Development
Jair Peltier, Turtle Mountain Community College
Need a ChatGPT Policy? Time to Get Up To Speed
Randy Perkins, White Earth Tribal and Community College
Cybersecurity Education and Awareness at Turtle Mountain Community College (part of the roundtable on “Digital Infrastructure at TCUs”)
Ananth Ramaseri-Chandra, Turtle Mountain Community College
Articulating Macroeconomics and Microeconomics for Indigenous Students
Gregory Redhouse, Diné College
The Mathematics Learning Čhaŋgléška (Sacred Hoop) (part of the roundtable on “Student Mentorship and Faculty Belonging”)
Jennifer Rodin, Sinte Gleska University
Breaking Down Mathematical Barriers Limiting Indigenous Student Access to STEM Careers and Degree Completion
Karen Saari, Cankdeska Cikana Community College
Overview of TCU and Tribal Institutional Review Boards (IRBs): Guiding Values and Protocols
David Sanders and Crystal LoudHawk-Hedgepeth, College Fund
Toward More Equitable Funding of TCUs: Strategies to Change Federal Appropriations and the Political Environment
Danelle Springer, AIHEC
Creating an Iňupiaq Data Sovereignty Statement at Iļisaġvik College (part of the roundtable on “Research at TCUs”)
Peter Snow, Iļisaġvik College
TCUs as Knowledge and Data Stewards in an “Information Age”
Krystal Tsosie, Arizona State University
Best Practices from a Peer Mentorship Program (part of the roundtable on “Student Mentorship and Faculty Belonging”)
Todd Van Deslunt, Lac Courtes Oreilles Ojibwe University
Honoring our Past, Sustaining our Future: Perspectives from TCU Presidents
Panel discussion featuring Elmer Guy, Navajo Technical University; Robert Martin, Institute of American Indian Arts; Tamarah Pfeiffer, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute; and Charles Roessel, Diné College; and moderated by Cheryl Crazy Bull, College Fund
Sustaining a Culture of Research at TCUs through Strategic Partnerships
Meredith Larson, U.S. Department of Education; Erin Lynch, Quality Education for Minorities Network; and Maya Magarati, University of Washington
