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Former University of New Mexico Regent Inspires NCORE Audience

Recounting her experiences growing up on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico and the isolating effects of academia on minority students, Sandra Begay-Campbell struck a chord with the women at this year’s NCORE event.

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Popular Powwow Celebrates Native American Presence at Stanford University

The annual, student-run Stanford Powwow draws more than 300 dancers in full regalia from around the country and Canada and celebrates the respective cultures of the 300-plus Indian students on campus.

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Newly Re-established White House Initiative Office to Seek Ideas on Native American Education

The White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education will host forums around the U.S. in the coming weeks to seek ideas on boosting educational outcomes for indigenous populations.

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University of North Dakota Will Use Fighting Sioux Nickname

The University of North Dakota will resume using its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname despite threats from the NCAA, the school’s president said Wednesday, marking the latest twist in a years-long fight about a name that some consider offensive.

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Court Rules Berkeley Not Obligated To Reinstate Fired Professor

The University of California, Berkeley, doesn’t have to reinstate a former untenured Native American faculty member although a jury awarded her retaliation damages, a California Court of Appeal has ruled.

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Indigenous Communities Educate American Public About Natural Health and Healing Concepts.

In October, the National Library of Medicine debuted a two-year exhibition called “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness.”

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Tribal College ‘Beats the Odds’ to Find Academic Success

In 2011, the college awarded 204 diplomas and certificates, 155 in 2010 and 133 in 2009.

Governor: Let University of North Dakota Dump Fighting Sioux Nickname

Gov. Jack Dalrymple asked North Dakota lawmakers on Monday to reverse a decision they made eight months earlier and allow the University of North Dakota to drop its Fighting Sioux athletics nickname.

Top 100 Degree Producers, 2014

For several years now, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has produced the Top 100 Degree Producers rankings of the institutions that confer the most degrees to minority students. Click the link above to discover the institutions that confer the most degrees to students of color. Ranked institutions are searchable by institution name, state, discipline or race/ethnicity of graduates.

Students File Lawsuit Over North Dakota School’s Nickname

The complaint alleges that a new law requiring the school to keep the nickname violates the state constitution and reverses a court-ordered settlement between UND and the NCAA that retired the logo.

Leadership & Policy

Haskell Indian Nations University President Chris Redman Looking to Future

The new president of Haskell Indian Nations University said it’s time to move on from recent unrest at the school, and instead focus on providing more opportunities for its students.

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Native American Rights Lawyer, Former University of Colorado Law Dean Dies at 68

The Boulder Daily Camera reports that university officials say David Getches died at his home on Tuesday of pancreatic cancer.

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