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United Tribes Technical College has 107 fewer students enrolled this semester, nearly a 25% drop from last year's tally of 434.

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Navajo Technical University (NTU) president Dr. Elmer J. Guy and New Mexico Tech (NMT) president Dr. Stephen Wells have signed a memorandum of understanding to improve access to drinking water in remote locations in the Navajo Nation that lack pipeline and municipal water systems.

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The school will use the money to build a One-Stop Student Services area. An unused portion of the college will be renovated into new offices and student meeting space.

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While the majority of the college is operating online, there are a limited number of instructors and students allowed on campus for hand-on courses, such as nursing and welding, but masks are required.

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Professor Shazia Tabassum Hakim, a Tuba City-based professor at Diné College’s School of Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, is one of the co-investigators of the team that recently secured a Los Angeles-based W.M. Keck Foundation Grant for the next three years.

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This funding, provided through the Head Start Partnerships with Tribally Controlled Land Grant Colleges, will be used to support school readiness and developmental services for children and their families.

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For starters, the school offered subsidized laptops to students who receive financial aid, cut tuition by half and, with permission from the Federal Communications Commission, extended the school’s internet infrastructure into the surrounding communities.

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The college plans to offer a mix of online only and hybrid courses to limit the number of students on campus President David Yarlott said. The college is using federal coronavirus relief funding to offset the loss of tuition, Yarlott said.

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Challenges facing predominantly white institutions are dominating public dialogue, Congressional hearings and dinner conversations. Meanwhile, significant threats to Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), lifelines to rural and disenfranchised Native American communities across the nation, are barely discussed.

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Last Thursday, in a scaled-down COVID-safe ceremony pretty much limited to the dignitaries giving speeches, the ribbon was gently untied on what is hands-down Chinle’s most interesting building, and one of the most significant.

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Longtime president of United Tribes Technical College, the first executive director of AIHEC, and a giant of the tribal college movement, David Gipp’s contributions to American Indian education are incalculable.

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Significant threats to Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), lifelines to rural and disenfranchised Native American communities across the nation, are barely discussed.

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Diné College has reported a fall 2020 student enrollment of more than 1,300 students. The number of enrolled students is higher than expected, considering the coronavirus outbreak,

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Three projects each received grants for proposals submitted to the agency's Minority University Research and Education Project, or MUREP.

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Now in its sixth year, the College Fund Student Ambassador Program trains American Indian and Alaska Native students to serve as leaders in their communities, to work to combat stereotypes, and to create greater visibility of Native Americans and an understanding of the importance of their diverse cultures.

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Each and every one of us must spend some time right now making sure we are registered to vote, requesting an absentee ballot, completing it immediately, and submitting it per its instructions.

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The college reported 1,348 students enrolled as of Monday, which is just 50 students short of the same time frame last year.

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Sacred Wind Communications, Inc. and Navajo Technical University announced Tuesday a new agreement to explore the expansion of broadband connectivity in tribal communities and remote homes on the Navajo Nation.

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Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC) announced the graduation of 27 students who successfully completed program requirements in the Law Enforcement Skills Training Program during the 2020 summer session.

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Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College (LCOOC) is excited to announce the receipt of a Johnson Scholarship Foundation Award, a contribution that creates scholarships in support of Native business and entrepreneurial students.

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