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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
Navajo Technical University Becomes First Tribal University to Achieve Accreditation with AVMA
Dr. Germaine Daye works with students Jenneth Begay and Celestina Salt and technician Royce Craig in examining a horse’s teeth at the NTU Vet Teaching Hospital’s barn. NTU’s Veterinary Technology program received AVMA accreditation on May 4, 2017.
Pathways for Minnesota Native Transfer Students
Three Native college students attending Leech Lake Tribal College (LLTC) in Cass Lake, Minnesota traveled to Durango, Colorado to visit the Fort Lewis College campus, a private four-year college that offers a tuition-waiver program to American Indian students.
Cankdeska Cikana Community College held Ground Breaking Ceremony for New Center for Cultural Arts
Left to right: Mark McLean, JLG Architects; Vern Lambert; Mark Wax, USDA ND Rural Development Community Project Director; Joel Davey, JLG Architects; Jeanette Herald, Board of Regents Chairperson; Bernice Cavanaugh-John; Helen Jacobs; Lorraine Greybear; Louis Garcia; LaVerne Sullivan; Phillip “Skip” Longie; Dr. Cynthia Lindquist; Laurel Reuter, NDMOA Director.
Cankdeska Cikana Community College and Partners to Launch Dakota Language Training Program
Cankdeska Cikana Community College (CCCC), in a partnership with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) in Minnesota and three other tribal colleges, today announced Voices of Our Ancestors (VOA), a two-year Dakota language training program. The Dakota language is one of our nation’s most endangered. The project goal is to increase the total number of Dakota speakers and teachers.
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) Professor Dr. Nader Vadiee, Ph.D. Wins WCET and GlobalMindED Digital Inclusion Award
The American Indian College Fund congratulates Dr. Nader Vadiee, Ph.D., a professor at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI), on the announcement by The WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) that he is the winner of the first Digital Inclusion Award.
Teachers Learn Techniques to Bolster Resiliency, Foster Classroom Connections
Native youth often face disproportionate challenges in their young lives. Early childhood teachers can help these young learners increase their resiliency while they face adverse circumstances by supporting factors that protect and strengthen young children, according to Ray Soriano, a keynote speaker at the 33rd Annual FOCUS on Children Conference at Bellingham Technical College.