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Community-Oriented, Inspirational, Cutting-Edge Education

February 27, 2013 – 12:03 am

by Megan Thoms What do you think of when you think of a community college? I simply think of a two-year institution that students attend before transferring to a four-year institution. That was before I visited Navajo Technical College (NTC), a tribal community college that just recently became a four-year institution. Navajo Technical College is [...]

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Tribal College Hosts Early Childhood Teacher Education Kick-Off

September 14, 2012 – 11:05 pm

Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI), one of the four grantees of the Wakanyeja “Sacred Little Ones” grant initiative funded by the American Indian College Fund and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, held the first Early Childhood Teacher Education Kick-Off on September 5, 2012. The historic event drew more than 60 participants from early childhood Head Start [...]

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Woksape Oyate Projects Draws to a Close

August 29, 2012 – 10:41 pm

After five years of building intellectual capital across Indian Country, the American Indian College Fund’s Woksape Oyate $17.5 million dollar project, meaning Wisdom of the People and funded by the Lilly Endowment, is drawing to a close. From developing staff and faculty development to new program implementation to language preservation projects, the Woksape Oyate program [...]

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The First Tribal College—Diné College

November 9, 2011 – 7:02 pm

The first tribal college was Diné College, located in Tsaile, Arizona, was founded by the Navajo Nation as Navajo Community College in 1968 to educate its young people who are residents of the 26,000 square-mile Navajo Nation which is spread over Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, while steeping them in their language, culture, and traditions. [...]