Student Resources

College Horizons Program Information

Pre-College Workshop for Native American Students

Pre-Graduate School Workshop for Native American Students

Graduate Programs and Basic College Searches

http://petersons.com/aigc/index.html 

Pathways Into Health Conference

The purpose of this conference is to bring together a diverse group of individuals to contribute to the development of appropriate and effective educational methodologies for primarily distance-based AI/AN health professions education. Three core concepts that will be illuminated to advance this process include:

• 1.Cultural Attunment
• 2.Interprofessional Education
• 3.Distance Learning/Telehealth Technologies

American Indian Science & Engineering Society
http://www.aises.org

Association of American Indian Physicians - Health Careers Opportunity Program

Goals

To increase the recruitment and retention of American Indian high school and college students into the medical and health professions also including allied health professions, such as Dentistry, Veterinary, Medicine, Optometry, Pharmacy, etc.

Activities

• Pre-Admission Workshops
  Workshops are designed to assist American Indian undergraduate and graduate students in preparing for the application process for medical school and other health professional schools
• Site visits
  Site visits to local, state, and national American Indian communities, tribes, and educational institutions.
• Database Creation
  Creation of a database designed to operate as a national clearinghouse for educational and financial information on health professional education.
• Mentoring Program
  A formal mentoring program where students are paired with American Indian Health Professionals. Students correspond via mail, phone, e-mail, or by personal contact with health professionals within their areas of interest.
• Student live-in/shadowing Program
  Students spend 4-7 days with American Indian Health Professional role models. This program is geared towards exposing the everyday practices of health career professionals to the participating students.
• Partnership with Native American Health Careers Initiative Coalition (NAHCIC)
  In partnership with members of the NAHCIC, a local 12-week Health Career Summer Academy & Health Research Training program for 30 disadvantaged American Indian students aged 14-17 will be held.

http://www.aaip.com

Cornell University Summer College

http://www.sce.cornell.edu/sc/index.php

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

http://www.crowcanyon.org/index.html

Duke University Talent Identification Program

http://www.tip.duke.edu

Harvard Business School Summer Venture in Management Program

The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP), a tradition for more than twenty years, is a week-long program at the Harvard Business School (HBS) designed to expose high-potential college students, who may not have otherwise considered an MBA degree, to the study of business administration in general, and to the MBA Program at HBS in particular.

Hill-Burton Toll Free Hotline

http://www.hrsa.gov/osp/dfcr/obtain/hotline.htm

Johns Hopkins University - Center for Talented Youth

The Center for Talented Youth (CTY) has served the academic needs of highly able pre-collegiate youth since 1979. Over two decades, audiences, programs, and operations have grown significantly and steadily.

http://www.jhu.edu/~gifted

Indian Summer Festival

Indian Summer Festivals, Inc. is dedicated to strengthening the American Indian community and educating the general public on the history and the unique and diverse cultures of the American Indian by providing a forum to celebrate and showcase American Indian traditions.

http://www.indiansummer.org

Landmark Volunteers - Youth Across America

60 chances to help change your world.

Landmark Volunteers offers you 60 summer service opportunities across the country with important and dynamic non-profit organizations.

http://www.volunteers.com/programs/index.php

Microsoft Community Affairs

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving

Minority Scientists Network

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/miscinet/

NIH Loan Repayment Programs

NIH Loan Repayment Programs are a vital component of our nation's efforts to attract health professionals to careers in clinical, pediatric, health disparity, or contraceptive and infertility research.

In exchange for a two or three-year (for Intramural General Research) commitment to your research career, NIH will repay up to $35,000 per year of your qualified educational debt. In addition, the NIH will make corresponding Federal tax payments for credit to your Internal Revenue Service tax account at the rate of 39% of each loan repayment to cover your increased Federal taxes. The NIH may also reimburse any increased state or local taxes and/or additional increased Federal taxes (where the Federal tax payments were not sufficient to fully cover your increased Federal taxes) that you incur as a result of your LRP benefits.

http://www.lrp.nih.gov

National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education

NINLHE's major program initiative is an Annual Institute held each summer. Through the Annual Institute, NINLHE brings together education professionals from universities, colleges, tribal colleges, and tribal education programs who:

• Are directly involved with Native American students in both academic and student affairs or are interested in supporting and sustaining such programs
• Either work with Native American student programs that already have established records of success, or have the desire to do so
• Are devoted to strengthening students' cultural and spiritual identities as an integral part of their educational experience
• Can roll up their sleeves and get work done
• Are "movers and shakers" or have the desire to be
• Have a good sense of humor and work well in groups
• Are not harmfully involved with alcohol or other drugs

Native Village Education Opportunities
http://www.nativevillage.org/Opportunities/HOME%20PAGE%20-%20Opps%20Archives.htm

New Mexico Coalition for Charter Schools

2010 National Conference for Native American Charter & Self-Determined Schools - April 21-22, 2010

NMCCS flyer in PDF

Palmer Foundation
http://www.thepalmerfoundation.org/default.asp?id=5

The PhD Project

The PhD Project began its mission in 1994 to increase the diversity of business school faculty by attracting African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans to business doctoral programs, and providing a network of peer support throughout the programs.

We are not a doctoral program, but rather an information clearinghouse for underrepresented minorities who are interested in pursuing a business Ph.D. to become a business school professor. Think of us as your "Ph.D.guidance counselor."

http://www.phdproject.org

The Rockefeller University - Science Outreach Program

Each summer at the Rockefeller University the cultures of the research laboratory and the classroom merge. The Science Outreach program gives high school students and K-12 teachers a rare opportunity to experience the content, methods, culture and ethos of modern research through immersion in the process of scientific inquiry.

http://www.rockefeller.edu/outreach/students.php

Training for American Indians in the GIS/GPS and Emergency Management Fields

In partnership with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), funding opportunities are provided for American Indians and for those who work for a Tribal entity, to attend courses at the FWS National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in support of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

In addition and in partnership with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), funding opportunities are provided for American Indians to attend courses in support of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

http://www.fgdc.gov/training/tribal-training

WHO (Women Helping Others) Foundation

http://whofoundation.org/WHO_Funding.htm

Native American Web Sites.

American Indian Chamber of Commerce

"Driving American Indian Business Success"

American Indian College Fund

http://www.collegefund.org

American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

AISES is a national, nonprofit organization which nurtures building of community by bridging science and technology with traditional Native values.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Indian Education Programs
http://enan.bia.edu

BIA Educational Employment Board

The Educational Employment Board has the most comprehensive list of teaching, administrative, and other school support staff positions available in most of the 23 states where BIA funded schools are located. Our main goal is to provide useful information on a possible teaching career with one of the 184 schools located on or near the Indian reservations. Of the 184 schools, 61 are bureau-operated schools while 123 operate as grant schools, which tribes operate under grants or contract. You can be assured that this information will be helpful to you as you discover teaching possibilities with the Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP).

http://www.biaeducationjobs.com

Cradleboard Teaching Project

The Cradleboard Teaching Project turns on the lights in public education about Native American culture - past, present, and most important for the children - the Future. It comes out of Indian country, and reaches far beyond, into the mainstream classroom and into the future of education.

The Falmouth Institute

For more than 20 years, the Institute has been assisting Indian tribes, tribal organizations and government agencies to meet the complex challenges of Indian Country.

Falmouth Institute Publications

• American Indian Report
• Native American Law Digest

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet

http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources

Indianz.com

Indianz.com is an Internet resource whose mission is to provide you with quality news, information, and entertainment from a Native American perspective.

The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)

http://www.iaia.edu

Lisa Mitten's List of Native American Web sites

http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html

National Indian Education Association

http://www.niea.org

Native American Journalists Association
The Native American Journalists Association serves and empowers Native journalists through programs and actions designed to enrich journalism and promote Native cultures.
http://www.naja.com

Native Village

NATIVE VILLAGE web site was created for youth, educators, families, and friends who wish to celebrate the rich, diverse cultures of The Americas' First Peoples. Each week we offer readers a current events publication: NATIVE VILLAGE Youth and Education News or NATIVE VILLAGE Opportunities and Web sites. Each issue summarizes today's happenings in Indian country and is written in an easy-to-read format.

The Navajo Times

http://www.navajotimes.com

RedWing Company ~ Sounds Good Audio

http://www.redwingcompanysga.com/

Renaissance Indian Magazine

This is an online magazine for and about Native Americans from our past, present and future.

Reznet

Reznet is a project of The University of Montana School of Journalism and the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, a non-profit corporation working to expand journalism opportunities for people of color. A grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation funded the project.

Social Security Administration - American Indians & Alaska Natives (AIAN) Web site

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has launched a new Web page specifically directed to American Indians & Alaska Natives.

The site provides basic Social Security program information on retirement, survivors, disability and Supplemental Security Income benefits.

In addition to program information, this new site shows how individuals can conduct business with SSA Online and information on how individuals and tribes or nations can contact SSA. American Indian and Alaska Natives also offers links to the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration on Native Americans and Indian Health Service; the Small Business
Administration, Native American Affairs; the Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for Minority Veterans; and Native Web.

Southwest Business Development Consultants, LLC

Southwest Business Development Consultants, LLC (SWBDC) is 100% American Indian-owned and was established in 1999 to assist in the development and expansion of American Indian Tribes, Tribal Enterprises, Tribal Colleges, Tribal Institutions, Tribal Organizations, Government Agencies, and American Indian-owned businesses, which seek comprehensive assistance in business, economic, and community development.

Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI)

http://www.sipi.bia.edu