Education
$2.024 million grant will provide tribal college faculty fellowships
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- Written by: Dina Horwedel
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DENVER – The Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have approved a grant of $2.024 million to the American Indian College Fund to continue support for graduate degree completion fellowships for Tribal College and University faculty. The three-year program, titled “Growing Our Own: Faculty Professional Development at Tribal Colleges and Universities,” is geared to invest in tribal college and university (TCU) faculty members and address the recent changes to TCU accreditation guidelines.
Most TCUs are located on American Indian reservations and in Alaska Native villages. They provide access to a higher education for students who reside in remote and rural areas and often cannot afford to relocate to attend college. TCUs are fulfilling a role that no other institution of higher education is capable of doing. These innovative institutions of higher education are serving as a pipeline for social and economic change, revitalizing the fabric of Native communities, and producing new generations of Native scholars, while preserving, nurturing, and perpetuating the culture and heritage of the communities they serve.
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