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October 26, 2010
The award was established in 2002 to honor international contributions from Minority Serving Institutions. This year is the first in which the award was bestowed to the leader of an American Indian Tribal College. Dr. S. Verna Fowler, President of Wisconsin’s College of Menominee Nation, holds that distinction.
October 7, 2010
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk today announced the second competition for students attending high schools and tribal colleges funded by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) that will promote careers in the fields of green and renewable energy. This year’s competition will be looking for designs of a conversion process that will change biomass into diesel fuel. The Indian Education Renewable Energy Challenge is being sponsored by the BIE in partnership with the Indian Affairs Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory.
September 28, 2010
The Peace Corps announced new partnerships with eight higher education organizations to help recruit the next generation of Peace Corps volunteers and highlight the career and volunteer opportunities that are available through Peace Corps. The participating academic partners include: The American Indian Higher Education Consortium, The Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund, The Council of 1890 Universities, The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, The Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Phelps Stokes, The Thurgood Marshall College Fund and The United Negro College Fund.
October 1, 2009
National workshop with NASA, TCUs, AIHEC and other partners to discuss impacts of climate change on Native Peoples and Native Homelands.
April 24, 2008
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