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Non Technical Summary
The proposed project will support tribal students through tuition support, textbook costs, and will directly increase student services for these students by creating an Admissions, Advising, and Registration full time position to support the current AAR position. The project has three main goals. The first goal is to ensure that all high school students who would like to enroll in college level coursework are not deterred by the cost of the course or the cost of supporting materials. The second goal is to ensure that every student has a textbook for their courses. The third and final goal for year two is to make sure students who enroll at the Nebraska Indian Community College have the necessary student services, including academic advising, tutoring services and any other specialized help they may need.
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Goals / Objectives
Objective One: Increase student services via increased personnel capacity.Measurable Outcome - The AAR counselor will provide services (academic advising, tutoring, etc) to at least 75 students per term and those students will persist towards graduationMeasurable Outcome - National Student Clearinghouse data will be used to ensure that program participants persist at 85% in reaching graduation either from their primary institution.Objective Two: All college courses will come with texts and course materials at no charge to the student.Measurable Outcome - 100% of texts were provided at no charge to project participants.Objective Three: All dual credit students in good standing will receive scholarships to cover the costs of their coursework.Measurable Outcome - 80% of the students who enroll in dual credit courses will enroll in an institution of higher education within one year of high school graduation via National Student Clearinghouse data.
Project Methods
Describe how the institution is going to accomplish the objectives of the project.Objective One: Increase student services via increased personnel capacity for students attending rural high schools. 1.1 Activity - An additional student support services advisor Admissions, Advising and Registration- (AAR) support person's position duties will hired and be refined to focus on Tribal dual credit students. 1.2 Activity - Contact students and provide services, including academic advising, working within the context of the intrusive advising system, including student referrals, early alert systems, etc. to ensure student success. 1.3 Activity - Ensure that at least 75 Tribal dual credit students are enrolled each term.Objective Two: Ensure each student has texts/course materials for their coursework. 2.1 Activity - At the beginning of every term, the college will purchase the texts or materials for each course. 2.2 Activity - The college will distribute the texts/course materials to every student at the beginning of every term.Objective Three: Ensure that dual credit students are aware of college and USDA sponsored tuition scholarships to attend dual credit course work. 3.1 Activity - Collaborate with local high schools to ensure that their students are aware of the scholarship opportunities. 3.2 Active - Award the scholarships to dual credit students in good standing on a first come first served basis.How will resources and personnel will be included, what cultural issues need to be addressed by the administrators of the grant to be successful. Will there need to be training for administrators for cultural awareness (please describe thoroughly). The Nebraska Indian Community College is a Tribal College and are deeply rooted in our communities. We offer monthly all staff meetings to provide training. A few times year we focus on Umonhon or Dakota language, cultural, history and cultural items. The college's weekly executive council meetings maintain cultural inputs on all institutional decisions to try and ensure that all decisions are in line with Umonhon or Dakota values. Finally, elder councils for both nations are consistently being designed to attempt to add additional Umonhon or Dakota voice into the college.g. Timetable:What are the milestones starting with the project initiation and ending with student graduation and workforce increases for Tribal students.July, 2022 - Project initiation. Assign the AAR Dual Credit student position. Advertise and hire for a second dual credit AAR position. Advertise the scholarships for high school students and begin work with additional area high schools for increased dual credit enrollment, and start prepping book and supply orders for the Spring 2023 Term. Order text and materials for the next term; Advertise the scholarships for summer to high school students, AAR will meet with students and institutional and community student services.August - September - October 2022 - Distribute the texts and course materials; Award the dual credit scholarships, AAR will meet with students and institutional and community student services.November - December - Advertise the scholarships for high school students and begin work with additional area high schools for increased dual credit enrollment, and start prepping book and supply orders for the Spring 2023 Term. Order text and materials for the next term; Advertise the scholarships for summer to high school students, AAR will meet with students and institutional and community student services.January - March - April - Distribute the texts and course materials; Award the dual credit scholarships, AAR will meet with students and institutional and community student services.March - Order text and materials for the next term; Advertise the scholarships for summer to high school students, AAR will meet with students and institutional and community student services.May - Every graduating student will be surveyed to determine if no text book fees; and student support services provided through this program was impactful. Further, students who took dual credit coursework will be tracked to determine if they enrolled at the college and if those students have been successful in reaching graduation and either transferring to a four year institution or entering the workforce.June - Wrap up project activities. Finalize reports.?