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Faculty & Staff

The Rebirth of D-Q University

The Phoenix is a traditional symbol of rebirth, but for D-Q University, a bolt cutter may be a more appropriate image. After more than 30 years as California’s only two-year tribal college…

Native Americans

United Tribes Technical College Left Out of Indian Affairs Budget Request for Fifth Straight Year

For the fifth consecutive fiscal year, the Bush administration has zeroed out funding for the United Tribes Technical College. In the previous four years, Congress restored funding for the Bismarck…

Institutional Revival

Nobody would have seen this coming back in 2003, when the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) placed Cankdeska Cikana Community College on probation…

Native Americans

Tribal Leaders Reject Donation of Abramoff Money

The Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council has rejected a $111,000 donation from the campaign of Montana Sen. Conrad Burns…

Tribal Colleges

Judge Dismisses Michigan Suit Brought

A judge dismissed a suit brought by Michigan’s largest teacher’s union seeking to close the 32 charter schools…

California’s Only Tribal College Still Struggling After 35 Years

Thirty-five years after a group of American Indians and Mexican Americans scaled a barbed-wire…

Leadership & Policy

California’s Only Tribal College Still Struggling After 35 Years

Thirty-five years after a group of American Indians and Mexican Americans scaled a…

Native Americans

Congressional Conference Committee Approves Funding for Tribal College

A House-Senate conference committee has approved a Department of the Interior appropriations bill that would include

Tribal Colleges Want State Lottery Scholarships

Four tribal college presidents want their students to be eligible for the state lottery scholarship…

Setting The Record Straight

Dr. Jon Quistgaard is unhappy with the way the national media has portrayed the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota Story:

Leadership & Policy

California Tribal College Loses Accreditation, Closes

California Tribal College Loses Accreditation, ClosesWOODLAND, Calif. American Indian leaders who tried to save California’s only tribal college say that problems at D-Q University are insurmountable. The two-year college in rural Yolo County lost its accreditation in January, after school officials failed to fix financial and management troubles. “We realize the school has reached its […]

Native Americans

New England Tribal College Would Be The First to Serve Eastern Tribes

New England Tribal College Would Be The First to Serve Eastern TribesHARTFORD, Conn. The modern-day reawakening of American Indian groups across New England could spawn something never seen on the East Coast: a college dedicated to the region’s estimated 40,000 people with native roots. A tribal college would offer a connecting point for New England’s […]

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