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New Mexico Public Education Department, 2021
The State-Tribal Collaboration Act (STCA) incorporates the intergovernmental relationship through several interdependent components and provides a basis in which the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) and New Mexico's tribes, nations, and pueblos work together to improve collaboration and communicate on educational issues of mutual…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Public Education, Tribes, Educational Legislation
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Brown, Blakely; Komlos, Barbara Z. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2019
This chapter describes the development and implementation of an Indigenous Mentoring Program (IMP) for faculty who mentor American Indian/Alaska Native graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The chapter also reviews steps taken in adapting and translating the IMP to non-Montana institutions that are…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Implementation, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives
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Windchief, Sweeney – New Directions for Higher Education, 2019
This chapter provides a rationale for supporting American Indians and Alaska Natives in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields particularly at the graduate level through Pacific Northwest Circle of Success: Mentoring Opportunities in STEM (PNW-COSMOS) Alliance activities and offers direction for the development of programming…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Mentors, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives
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Red Owl, Sherry – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2017
Sinte Gleska University (SGU) grew from humble beginnings and a lofty vision to an institution that offers a full range of post-secondary programs for its students. The founders of SGU envisioned a higher education institution that allowed tribal students to complete their entire college education within the boundaries of their tribal nation. They…
Descriptors: Tribally Controlled Education, Higher Education, American Indian Education, American Indian Students
Region 16 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This project brief maps out how the Oregon Department of Education, with support from Region 16, conceived, developed, and implemented the six Student Success Plans, co-developed in collaboration with the communities surrounding six student focal groups: (1) Black/African American students; (2) American Indian/Alaska Native students; (3)…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Program Development, Program Implementation, Success
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Pittau Sevilla, Zulma M. – Music Education Research, 2016
The "Mbyá" culture forms a part of the Guaraní ethnic group that mainly inhabits the territories of south-eastern Brazil, in the Province of Misiones--Argentina, and the Republic of Paraguay. This article will focus mainly on field observations I have made in different communities in these countries, and which will try to synthetically…
Descriptors: Music Education, Self Concept, American Indian Students, Foreign Countries
Espinoza, Kristine Jan Cruz; Watson, Reneé T. – Online Submission, 2022
The "U.S. News and World Report" has ranked the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) as being one of the most racially diverse institutions, and UNLV has received dual-designations as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution and Hispanic-Serving Institution. Concurrently, pervasive physical threats,…
Descriptors: Minority Serving Institutions, Student Government, Asian American Students, American Indian Students
Lora J. Henderson; Belinda E. Hernandez; Kate Joshua; Dustina Gill; Jessika H. Bottiani – Grantee Submission, 2022
Indigenous communities demonstrate immense cultural strengths despite being impacted by mental health and academic disparities due to ongoing systemic racism and historical trauma. Given that schools are a context in which indigenous youths' needs have potential to be met through preventive intervention, this scoping review explores and summarizes…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Prevention, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students
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Lora Henderson Smith; Belinda E. Hernandez; Kate Joshua; Dustina Gill; Jessika H. Bottiani – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
Indigenous communities demonstrate immense cultural strengths despite being impacted by mental health and academic disparities due to ongoing systemic racism and historical trauma. Given that schools are a context in which indigenous youths' needs have potential to be met through preventive intervention, this scoping review explores and summarizes…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Prevention, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students
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Naomi Lee; Alfreda Nelson; Vanessa Svihla – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2018
Literature shows that students who enter the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical-related (STEMM) pipeline at earlier stages of their career are more likely to be successful. This is especially true for underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students. Despite the increasing number of students entering the pipeline,…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, Ethnic Groups
Rawana, Jennine S.; Sieukaran, Daniella D.; Nguyen, Hien T.; Pitawanakwat, Randy – Canadian Journal of Education, 2015
Although Aboriginal students encounter educational challenges, few post-secondary mentorship programs that facilitate positive educational and mental health outcomes within this population are described in the literature. This study describes the development and evaluation of a mentorship program for Aboriginal university students. Program…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Evaluation, Learner Engagement, Resilience (Psychology)
Galvan, Jose; And Others – 1987
A group of three brief conference papers, all concerned with methods to help Limited English Proficient (LEP) students succeed, is presented in this document. The first paper, "Integrated Content Language Approach" (Jose Galvan), suggests that LEP students who are at the intermediate level or beyond will benefit from programs integrating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Students, Asian American Students, Bilingual Education
Bain, Josie G., Ed.; Herman, Joan L., Ed. – 1987
The conference reported in this document sought to do the following: (1) focus attention on the problem of underachieving minority students, and issue a call for action to improve their educational achievement; (2) promote dialogue on promising practices aimed at solving the problem; (3) foster collaboration on solutions among practitioners,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Students, Asian American Students, Black Students