American Indian Higher Education Consortium

Congratulations Navajo Technical University on your innovation with this Construction Trades program!

NTU Launches Fast-Track Construction Trades Program Navajo Technical University has officially launched its new Microcredentials–Construction Trades program through its Construction Technology department. This accelerated course condenses 16 weeks of hands-on construction training into just 9 weeks, providing students with a fast-tracked path to in...

CALL TO ACTION! Join IHEART at the American Indian & Alaska Native Healthcare Workforce Development Summit on September 12, 2025, in Chandler, Arizona.
Register for the IHEART Summit HERE! https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/ck62ns2/lp/b41e6646-f725-43b1-bdc8-420275505d97

Across healthcare professions, there is stagnant or declining workforce numbers. Healthcare inequities faced by Native communities will only intensify as shortages are faced across the nation. Join us to learn and discuss the current state of healthcare, the impact on Native communities, updates from healthcare professionals and organization, current policies, and actionable first steps to address the current state of healthcare.

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AIM-AHEAD Annual Meeting, attended by TCU Faculty in the Data Science Training Institute and SimChart: AI and Nursing programs.
Attendees to the July 7-9 meeting in Dallas, TX included: Dr. Franklin Maloba (Navajo Technical University), Dr. Boampong Asare (United Tribes Technical College), Dr. Manohar Sah (United Tribes Technical College), Tommy Shawn Long (Nebraska Indian Community College), Tonya Moschell (Oglala Lakota College), Linda Londre (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University), Sharleen Gilham (Blackfeet Community College), Dr. Irene Ane-Anyangwe (Navajo Technical University).

Tribal Colleges and Universities are not only institutions of higher education but also hubs of workforce and economic development for the rural communities in which they reside. This article looks at how the proposed federal cuts “would devastate local communities while harming Montana’s economy.”
Aaniiih Nakoda College Blackfeet Community College Chief Dull Knife College Fort Peck Community College Little Big Horn College Salish Kootenai College Stone Child College

‘Our doors would have to close’: Trump’s proposed cuts threaten tribal colleges The threat of federal cuts is already impacting students and staff.

Join us for an upcoming workshop on August 6, 2025 about the NSF Documenting Endangered Languages grant.
Registration link: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/699nwq6/lp/efaa724e-f51d-4f47-9db6-5f8cf58b4e99

Grant guidelines: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/dli-del-nsf-dynamic-language-infrastructure-neh-document

Inside Higher Ed talks with our TCU Presidents and AIHEC's President Ahniwake Rose about the proposed budget cuts.

College of Menominee Nation Little Priest Tribal College Tohono O'odham Community College

Tribal Colleges Worry for Their Survival After Proposed Cut Department of the Interior proposed reducing funding for tribal colleges by more than $100 million. Some tribal college leaders fear their institutions wouldn’t survive it.

TCU Students! Apply today for the 2025 AIHEC Student Congress L.I.F.E. Conference.
Deadline extended to July 7, 2025!
Find the application here;https://webassets.aihec.org/Meetings/Meeting%20Agendas/ASCLIFE%20Conference2025Application_%20Rev.pdf

Congratulations to Stephen Wall on being appointed Interim President of IAIA, he will assume presidential duties when President Martin retires July 31, 2025!

The IAIA Board of Trustees has named IAIA Faculty Emeritus Stephen Wall (White Earth Nation) as interim president, effective upon Dr. Robert Martin’s (Cherokee Nation) retirement July 31, 2025. Wall will assume presidential duties until the Board of Trustees completes the search for his replacement.

Wall was conferred the title of IAIA Faculty Emeritus in 2019, after teaching for 14 years in the Indigenous Liberal Studies Department. He was also named IAIA Faculty of the Year in both 2009 and 2017.

Wall has served as a Tribal Justice Specialist, Chief Judge for the Mescalero Apache Tribal Court, Behavioral Health Coordinator for the Tohono O’odham Nation Health Department, Community Alcoholism Prevention Team Member for the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Research Analyst for the American Indian Law Center at UNM, and Cultural Studies and Political Science Instructor at Fort Lewis College, as well as offering other numerous Tribal law consultations, presentations on culture and history, and publications in those areas. Wall has a Juris Doctorate from the University of New Mexico and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Fort Lewis College.

In a recent article published in the Tribal College Journal, Wall wrote, “We live in a society in which the arts and humanities are more essential than ever and are needed to mediate the inhumanity of uncontrolled technological development…The arts and humanities can reconnect people to our shared humanity. For Indigenous communities, the shock of dehumanization has been a part of our history. Tribal colleges and universities provide the mechanism for exploring this history and reconnecting with Indigenous ways of life and values needed to strengthen our humanity.”

Stephen Wall’s appointment as interim president starts on August 1, 2025.

https://iaia.edu/stephen-wall-named-interim-president-of-the-institute-of-american-indian-arts/

Photograph by Jason S. Ordaz, Institute of American Indian Arts.

Great article about Tohono O'odham Community College featuring student Thurman Lynch!

Tohono O’odham Community College thriving as it tries to weather proposed deep cuts to tribal college funding - AZ Luminaria SELLS — At the end of six months in a Casa Grande addiction treatment facility, Thurman Lynch knew he could not return to his Navajo Nation home. He understood he needed a purpose. He had no steady income and few possessions. But he was sober. And looking for a new start.  A conversation at rehab...

If you are a higher education leader looking to make a meaningful impact in the lives of students, their community, and tribe apply for this great opportunity to lead Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College!

TCU Students! Apply by July 3, 2025!

Tribal College and University Students! Join the AIHEC Student Congress at the L.I.F.E. Conference - July 14 - 18, 2025.
Download the application and apply:https://webassets.aihec.org/Meetings/Meeting%20Agendas/ASC%20LIFE%20Conference%202025%20Application.pdf

Wisconsin tribal colleges at risk under Trump plan to cut funding by nearly 90%

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Wisconsin tribal colleges at risk under Trump plan to cut funding by nearly 90% The College of Menominee Nation and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University face existenial cuts under a proposal by President Trump's Interior Department.