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Download full textEmery, Mary – North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, 2008
In 1994 the Ford Foundation launched the Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI) as a "national demonstration project to help community colleges in distressed regions move their people and communities toward prosperity. It challenged community colleges to become catalysts for economic development and supported aggressive efforts to increase…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Tribally Controlled Education, Rural Schools
Alaska Review of Social and Economic Conditions, 1984
The Alaska Native population experienced substantial advances in physical health, education, income, and housing between 1970 and 1980. Despite these gains and the 1971 passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), the Alaska Native population remains at a disadvantage in all areas relative to the Alaskan non-Native population and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians
Bland, Laurel L. – 1976
Numbering approximately 62,005 and representing 15.3% of the total Alaska population in 1975, Alaska Natives are a finite and predominately rural subpopulation. However, a significant portion of the Alaska Native Work Force (estimated at 13,854) now resides in the major urban areas and is available to the Statewide Work Force. Statistics from May,…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Culture Conflict, Demography, Economic Development
Gaffney, Michael J. – 1981
Faced with the need to build new social and economic institutions following the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Natives formed 12 regional non-profit making corporations. One of these, Northwest Arctic Inupiat (NANA), is bringing a human resources development approach to the area in an effort to develop enduring economic and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, Developing Nations
Bland, Laurel L. – 1978
As part of a long-term study of the utilization of Alaska Native manpower, new data is combined with that of a similar 1975 study to estimate the Alaska Native and non-Native civilian population and work force for 1978 and 1980. Contrary to 1975 predictions the population ratio of Alaska non-Natives to Natives remains constant at 82%/18%. The…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Culture Conflict, Demography, Economic Development
Bland, Laurel L. – 1978
The research brief and the 1978 study on which it is based provide a means for establishing the size and utilization of the Alaska Native Work Force, as well as estimates of the number of Native workers available regularly or periodically to the Statewide Work Force. Because official data sources conflict, means developed between highest and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Culture Conflict, Demography, Economic Development
