Recipient Organization
NEBRASKA INDIAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
1 COLLEGE HILL
MACY,NE 68039-0428
Performing Department
Student Services
Non Technical Summary
The overall prurpose of the New Beginnings for Tribal Students project at the Nebraska Indian Community College is to recruit and retrain Nattive American Students.The three goals of the program are:Objective One: Increase Student services to Native American Students via increased peronnel capacity.Objective Two: Ensure each student has texts/course materials for their courseworkOjbective Three: Ensure that dual credit students are aware of college and USDA sposored tuition scholarships to attend dual credit course work.
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Goals / Objectives
The proposed project will support tribal students throughtuition support, textbook costs, and will directly increasestudent services for these students by creating an Admissions, Advising, andRegistrationfull timeposition. The project has three main goals.1. The first goal is to ensure that students who enroll at the Nebraska Indian Community College have the necessarystudent services, includingacademicadvising, tutoring,and othercomprehensivestudentsupportservices.Objective One: Increase student services via increased personnel capacity.Measurable Outcome - The AAR counselor will provide services (academic advising, tutoring,etc.) to at least 50 students per term and those students will persist towards graduationMeasurable Outcome-50% of the college's graduates will indicate that the support services provided by the program were helpful in reaching graduation.2. The second goal is to ensure that every student has a textbook for their courses. ObjectiveTwo:All college courses will come with texts and course materials at no charge to the student.Measurable Outcome - 50% of the college's graduates will indicate that the no cost course texts and materials provided by the program were helpful in reaching graduation.3. The final goal is to ensure that all high school students who would like to enroll in college level coursework are not deterred by the cost ofthe course or the cost of supporting materials.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.
Project Methods
NICC Project MethodsObjective One: Increase student services via increased personnelcapacity.Activity - Hire and train twostudent support services (Admissions, Advising and Registration)support person toincrease the student services on the campus.Activity - Contact students and provide services, including academic advising, working within the context of theintrusive advising system, including student referrals, early alert systems,tutoring, and other support servicesto ensure student success.Objective Two: Ensure each student has texts/course materials for their coursework.Activity1- At the beginning of every term, the college will purchase the texts or materials for each course.Activity 2 - The college will distribute the texts/coursematerialsto every student at the beginning of every term.Objective Three:Ensure that dual credit students areaware of college and USDA sponsored tuition scholarships to attend dual credit course work.Activity 1 - Collaborate with local high schools to ensure that their students are aware of thescholarship opportunities.Active 2 - Award the scholarships to dual credit studentsin good standingon a first come first served basis.?Measure/Evaluate: Dr. Kristine Sudbeck, the college's Academic Dean and Troy Munhofen, the college's Office ofInstitutionalResearch and Registrar will evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Dr. Sudbeck has strong history in analyzing data using sophisticated computer modeling programs. Mr. Munhofen has extensive experience in evaluating NICC's data and has made NICC a leader in reporting dataand analytics in the Tribal College circuit.