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Indigenous Higher Education

The resources at this site provide information on general issues associated wtih Indigenous Higher Education. Anyone wishing to contribute to this site is encouraged to contact the coordinator of the Alaska Native Knowledge Network at (907) 474-1902 or send an email message to uaf-cxcs@alaska.edu

Alaska Tribal Colleges

Consortium for Alaska Native Higher Education
Excerpt: Native Americans will shape their own futures and that of their communities through higher education that perpetuates tribal culture and honors the people, the land, the air, the water, and the animals that are essential for a healthy America and for world survival.

Ilisagvik College Receives Grant to Establish Tribal College Consortium
An article in in Sharing Our Pathways published in March/April 1998 by Alaska Native Knowledge Network.

Interior Athabascan Tribal College Mission Statement

Southeast Alaska Tribal College

Links for Indigenous Higher Education

WINHEC Accreditation Handbook
World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium Accreditation Handbook (as of December 2004 in pdf - 1MB)
This includes a Report to the WINHEC Accreditation Working Party (in pdf - 112KB)

World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium
Official Website for WINHEC

Working Party on Accreditation
Excerpt: "Following are the guiding principles to be considered in the formation of an Indigenous higher education accrediting system for implementation under the auspices of the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium."


Example Culturally Responsive Accreditation Standards


First Nations and Higher Education: The Four R's - Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, Responsibility

Verna J. Kirkness
Ray Barnhardt
Excerpt: " American Indian/First Nations/Native people have been historically under-represented in the ranks of college and university graduates in Canada and the United States. From an institutional perspective, the problem has been typically defined in terms of low achievement, high attrition, poor retention, weak persistence, etc., thus placing the onus for adjustment on the student."

HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE FOURTH WORLD: Indigenous People Take Control
Ray Barnhardt
Excerpt: "Very early in their deliberations, the people of the North Slope Borough identified education as a critical concern - in fact gaining control of their schools from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs was one of the incentives for establishing the Borough in the first place. Control over education was viewed as essential if Inupiat people were to have access to the kind of education they felt they needed to shape their own destiny."

Domestication of the Ivory Tower: Institutional Adaptation to Cultural Distance
Ray Barnhardt
Excerpt: "Several years ago, a student and a faculty member in our off-campus teacher education program went on a hunting trip out on the tundra of western Alaska. The student, a Yup’ik Eskimo who had grown up in the area, had completed only a few years of formal schooling but had successfully worked as a teacher’s aide in the local school and had decided to pursue becoming a certificated teacher."


Native American Studies at Dartmouth College


AIHEC List of Tribal Colleges
A list of Tribal Colleges in the Lower 48 (Continental US).

Indigenous Institutes

Indigenous Education Institute

World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium

Center for Hawaiian and Indigenous Education (UHM)

International Research Institute for Maori & Indigenous Education

Nga Pae o te Maramatanga

Halau Wanana: Native Hawaiian Center for Higher Learning

UHH Hawaiian Studies Doctoral Program

ASU Center for Indian Education

Univeristy of Arizona American Indian Studies

Sámi University College

Native Science Academy

First Nations University of Canada

University College of the North Indigenous Graduate Study

Indigenous College of Education and Research

Indigenous Higher Education Centres around Australia

Center for World Indigenous Studies

Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute (Evergreen)

Indigenous Math and Science Institute (Salish-Kootenai)

Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge (Penn State)

Center for Border & Indigenous Educational Leadership (NMSU Las Cruces)

Centre for Sami Studies

Ainu Research Center, HUE

 
 

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