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Study Skills
No matter what your grades are, everyone needs some guidance to find success in the classroom. Here are some resources to help you develop the best study habits and skills you’ll need to get your degree:
What are Office Hours? – by Andrew Ishak
Time Management: TCU Video Project Series
Focus 2 Self-Assessment
Many people struggle with choosing an academic major during school, or job industry after graduation, but choosing a path is important when choosing your classes, internships and other career opportunities.
Focus 2 combines self-assessment, career and major exploration, decision-making and planning in one place. By matching your assessment results to career options and majors/programs for your consideration, FOCUS 2 guides you through a career and education decision-making model to help you make informed career decisions and take action in planning your future.
To use this free service, register to create an account with the access code collegefund. From there, you can take each test- personality, interests, values, and skills- to build your academic and career planning profile. Print your profile to share with an academic or career counselor or mentor to discuss your career plan or transition to a new profession.
Money Management
It is also important to understand budgeting, credit, and debt management – to help you to make responsible decisions in school, and prepare for your financial life after school. Learn about the following topics in related posts — your financial future depends on it.
- Money Management — Developing Common Cents (College Fund)
- Per Cap (First Nations Development Institute)
- Financial Skills for Families (First Nations Development Institute)
- Developing Your Vision: Managing Your Money
- Your First Bank Account
- Childcare Costs (and Ways to Reduce Them)
- When Your Child Has Special Needs
- Caring For Aging Parents
- Children and Family Considerations
Student Ambassador Program
The American Indian College Fund Ambassador Program was established in 2015 to strengthen students’ and alumni personal and professional skills and to represent the College Fund.
Our Blogs
American Indian College Fund Offers Three-Year American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law School
A law degree is foundational for Native leaders to ensure the rights of their sovereign Nations and citizens. Law school graduates work as lawyers, in public policy, government, law enforcement, education, and more.
Keepers of the Flame: Part 3
This is part three of the story of a father who instilled in his daughter the value of education in its many forms, and a mother and grandmother who paved the way through their teachings.
American Indian College Fund Celebrates National Tribal College and University Week in Washington, D.C.
The American Indian College Fund (the College Fund) joins the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and its member tribal colleges and universities to celebrate National Tribal College Week beginning February 5. Native students, tribal college presidents, and American Indian College Fund staff will pay visits to U.S. legislative leaders who have tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) in their states.
Circle of Hope Winter 2024
| Winter 2024 |Circle of HopeThe Journey MattersAs we begin a new year, I am excited to share some new things we’ve been working on to create stronger, more meaningful ways of evaluating our work. Because Native people have not historically been included in the...
Keepers of the Flame: Part 2
This is part two of the story of a father who instilled in his daughter the value of education in its many forms, and a mother and grandmother who paved the way through their teachings.
