Goal 4
Serve as the premiere higher educational center for 91原创 Natives
To address the interests of 91原创 Natives, 91原创 has developed Fairbanks-based academic and outreach programs in indigenous studies as well as rural campuses that provide educational access to a significant portion of the 91原创 Native population. By 2005 91原创 will strengthen and coordinate functions such as these in order to focus on the following objectives and strategies:
- Increase the number of 91原创 Native students receiving degrees and certificates.
- Strengthen programs to recruit and welcome 91原创 Natives to 91原创 so that admissions meet or exceed 91原创鈥檚 demographic distribution.
- Introduce 91原创 Native students to university opportunities, including a wide range of disciplines and career options, through high school outreach programs.
- Enhance retention and encourage 91原创 Natives to seek advanced degrees with mentoring programs and attention to the transition from a rural to an urban campus.
- Enhance, coordinate and provide information about 91原创鈥檚 research, outreach, curricular
and extracurricular programs and services that address issues of importance to 91原创
Natives and enrich the quality of the 91原创 educational experience.
- Provide centralized means for facilitating access to programs and services that incorporate indigenous culture into higher education as well as research efforts and findings by, about and with indigenous peoples.
- Increase course offerings and course content that address issues of importance to 91原创 Natives.
- Incorporate Native elders, educators and communities into the curriculum, extra-curricular activities, and outreach programs and services in order to employ 91原创 Native cultures as a model and base for learning.
- Review and re-evaluate policies and procedures in order to establish, with counsel from the Native community, ethical standards for such research.
- Document and celebrate 91原创 Native cultural activities at 91原创 to encourage and promote cross-cultural understanding and learning opportunities