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[OPB] University of Oregon and Eastern Oregon University announce programs supporting Native American students

By the end of Indigenous Peoples’ Day all of Oregon’s public universities had programs moving forward aimed at giving financial support to Native American students. Both the University of Oregon and Eastern Oregon University announced programs Monday, following Oregon’s five other public universities that made similar strides in the past few months. University of Oregon’s Home … Read more

[Forbes] New Research On Indigenous Students And College Affordability

September 22, 2022September 6, 2022 News college, education, graduate, Higher education, indigenous, Native Americans, native bruin, student, UCLA, UCLA AISC

The National Native Scholarships Providers (NNSP) recently released its first National Study on College Affordability for Indigenous Students. The report, which was funded by Lumina Foundation, found that the main obstacle to completing college for Native students is affordability. The report is the result of a collaboration between the nation’s four Native scholarship providers: the … Read more

[Voa News] Examining the Debate Over Native American Land Acknowledgments

August 11, 2022August 7, 2022 News college, indigenous, indigenous peoples, land, Land Acknowledgement, native american, Native Americans, Stanford, student, university, Yale

WASHINGTON — A civil rights lawsuit filed by a University of Washington computer science professor has called attention to a largely academic debate over land acknowledgments — formal statements that recognize Indigenous custodianship of geographic areas on which institutions stand or events take place. Evolving out of the work of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, … Read more