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Tribal Colleges Receive Support to Fight COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, health disparities continue to be revealed and exacerbated. The disproportionate impact is especially prevalent within Native American communities.

February 2, 2021

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Ensure Emergency Grants to Students Aren’t Taxed: Higher Ed Groups

A host of higher education groups, including the American Council on Education, have written to congressional leaders asking them to ensure that the emergency student financial aid grants authorized by the coronavirus stimulus package, or the CARES Act, are not subject to taxation. Under the act, $6.28 billion was awarded to college and universities “to […]

April 21, 2020

Native Americans

How a Small Tribal College Stepped up to Make Face Shields For Health Workers

Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college in Michigan, got a request from its community two weeks ago, to make face masks for local workers providing key services as the coronavirus spreads. The school’s advanced manufacturing program got to work, designing a lightweight, reusable face shield. Using 3D printing technology, they plan to produce 3,000 shields in three weeks.

April 6, 2020

Native Americans

For Tribal Colleges That Have Always Struggled With Internet Access, Moving Online Isn’t Easy

Tribal colleges and universities – which serve over 16,000 Native American students – have been hard hit by the coronavirus, as they try to support some of the poorest student populations in remote rural areas with limited technology and funds.

March 31, 2020

COVID-19

Tribal Colleges Say They Need Immediate Funding to Face up to Coronavirus Challenges

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) said on Tuesday that special, set-aside funding is required for tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) to deal with the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in The Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. AIHEC said that TCUs need to move instruction online […]

March 24, 2020

Native Americans

Achieving the Dream Conference Spotlights Tribal Colleges and Universities

This year, the Achieving the Dream conference focused on tribal colleges and universities. How can higher education leaders boost student success at these institutions?

February 19, 2020

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UNCF Celebrates as FUTURE Act Awaits Trump’s Signature

The latest version of the FUTURE Act, a bipartisan compromise on funding for minority serving institutions, now awaits the signature of President Trump, having been passed by the House and Senate yesterday, hours after a United Negro College Fund press conference touted the bill’s merits.

December 10, 2019

African-American

Senate Democrats Start New Push to Pass the FUTURE Act

Sen. Doug Jones and Sen. Jon Tester are making a renewed push for the U.S. Senate to pass the Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education (FUTURE) Act, bipartisan legislation – introduced by Jones and Sen. Tim Scott – to renew mandatory federal funds to minority serving institutions for two years.

November 6, 2019

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Higher Education Organizations Urge Congress to Pass the FUTURE Act

A group of higher education organizations have thrown their support behind the Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education (FUTURE) Act, calling on Congress to pass it by September 30th when a set of funds for their member schools is set to expire. The organizations advocating for passing the FUTURE Act this month include […]

September 4, 2019

Native Americans

Tribal Colleges Struggle to Connect

Last year, the Federal Communications Commission found that about 35 percent of Americans living on tribal lands don’t have broadband service compared to 8 percent of Americans overall, prompting a Government Accountability Office report on tribal access to the internet. A year later, tribal colleges still struggle to provide their students and faculty access to up-to-date Wi-Fi service.

July 26, 2019

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Panel: Marginalized Groups Need Diversity Officers

Diversity officers should help cultivate a campus climate where coalitions are built to benefit underserved student populations and where the historical trauma experienced by various minority groups is addressed. That’s what experts said during a plenary panel discussion Friday at the 13th annual conference of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education.

March 8, 2019

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AIHEC Commends Passage of New Bill that Benefits Tribal Institutions

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium  has announced its support of the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, which will provide tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) with increased resources and equity. The legislation is comprised of provisions from the Cultivating Resources, Opportunity, Prosperity and Sustainability for Indian County (CROPS) Act, introduced by Senate Indian Affairs […]

December 16, 2018