Progress 08/01/23 to 07/31/24
Outputs
Target Audience:Tribal students and communities are the primary audiences for this project, inclusive of Tribal faculty and staff at NDSU, and regional Tribal Nations. On campus, through our scholarship opportunity, needs assessment, and work to design a community space, we have focused on Tribal students on campus. Our Extension efforts have also focused on Tribal students and administrators at our state TCUs, of which North Dakota has five. Tribal students who receive scholarships are monitored through the Office of Multicultural Programs and our NDSU Extension Tribal Liaison continues to connect with administrators at TCUs. Our target audience also includes the NDSU campus community more broadly as we work on professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, and administrators to expand their knowledge of Indigenous people and Nations with a focus on Tribal communities in North Dakota. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Established a Freshman Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access course which was piloted during the 2021-22 academic year. All incoming students are equired to complete this course. A discussion series, Including U, is a conversation series open to the NDSU community that focuses on a diverse range of experiences and identities in Higher Education. On October 11, 2023 the session topic was Indigenous perspectives. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The NDSU Agricultural Affairs DEI Council meets on a bi-monthly basis, and NBTS project updates are regularly shared. This DEI Council has hosted a speaker on land acknowledgement development and use and our NDSU Extension Liaison continues to engage in Tribal community outreach and our project activities are included on our institution's Tribal initiatives webpage: https://www.ndsu.edu/inclusioncouncil/native_american_initiatives/ What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Our project team as well as the advisory council members (T-SEC) will continue to support the TID, Faculty Fellows, and Office of Admissions in: 1) collaborating with NDSU units/staff to develop and pilot Unit Equity Action and Assessment Plans, 2) recruiting and training Unit Liaisons, 3) developing a Care team advising/coaching model/program, 4) creating and coordinating a Cohort mentoring program, 5) working with faculty to further develop faculty learning communities around inclusive teaching and culturally responsive pedagogy, 6) offering FAFSA & College Application Support Events, 7) hosting community gatherings with Tribal students/families, and 8) establishing scholarship fund for Tribal students.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
This project is being engaged in tandem with an earlier grant and has allowed us to further strengthen our efforts to meaningfully address the immediate needs of all Tribally affiliated students while also providing ongoing professional development and working to create policies and practices that prepare NDSU employees in better understanding and serving Tribal students. Because this work is being accomplished in association with that previous grant, some overlapping/interrelated accomplishments may be referenced in both reports. Objective 1. Increase enrollment, retention, graduation of Tribal students. 1.1 Through this partnership, a new connection between the Fargo West Fargo Indian Education Program and NDSU TRIO Upward Bound Director (Ben Shapiro) has been established. 1.2 Organize recruitment events and tours with TCUs. In May 2023, Jaclynn Wallette and Vanessa Rabitaille-Kinney visited Edwin Kitzes at United Tribes Technical College. During this meeting plans for campus exchanges were planned for Fall of 2023. Including NDSU Faculty/Staff/Students taking a bus in September 2023 to United Tribes Annual Powwow. The bus held around 50 people. 1.3 Indigenous Peoples Day and Culturally Significant Days Calendar were adopted in Summer 2020. NDSU changed institutional recognition from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day in recognition of too-often overlooked Tribal history and culture. NDSU also expanded recognition days beyond religiously significant days to include culturally significant dates such as Juneteenth. ? Hosted an Indigenous Student Visit Day in October 2023.This annual event included a NDSU student-led panel discussion and was attended by over 100 students ? Partnered with the Indigenous Association in Fargo-Moorhead on planning for Indigenous Peoples Day 2023. Had a representative from the Indigenous Association help with an event for Native American Heritage Month. Objective 2. Develop institutional environment to support Tribal student retention, and graduation. 2.1 & S1 Hired the Tribal Initiatives Director (TID) in the winter of 2022 to lead collaborations with campus entities in providing ongoing training for administrators, faculty and staff as well as different programming techniques for Indigenous students on campus. Vanessa Rabitaille-Kinney, TID, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, met regularly with Indigenous students on how to best support them, and what events or celebrations can be created to drive their interest and would help them feel like they belong at North Dakota State University. Vanessa lead the planning effort and execution of the 33rd Annual Woodland High Plains Powwow alongside other universities in the Fargo-Moorhead area .This position was funded through the supplemental funds awarded to this project in 2021. 2.2 Dr. Denis K. Lajimodiere's selection as North Dakota's first Indigenous Poet Laureate. The New Beginnings team along with NDSU Faculty, Staff, Students and Fargo's dignitaries, took a bus to Turtle Mountain to hear a reading from Dr.Lajimodiere's books and to honor her with her new title. Objective 3. Create an inclusive, welcoming, educated, and responsive campus community. 3.1 - 3.4 A variety of Professional Development opportunities focused on Tribal concerns are offered several times a year for faculty, staff, and administrators. Additional NDNAEU training is planned. Participants will be recruited to become members of a Team of Champions cohort who will provide additional guidance/recommendations for integrating learning into required Equal Opportunity trainings and to support faculty in applying their increased knowledge and awareness regarding Tribal students to their academic/curricular praxis. One of the Grants Faculty Fellows has started the process of designated Tribal liaisons per NDSU departments. To build community connections project team members collaborated in the planning and execution of the 33rd Annual Woodland High Plains Powwow alongside other universities in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Hosted TCU students for 2023 summer engineering courses. Gave a one-hour informal presentation on Indigenous life on campus and what events can be expected for the 2024-2025 school year. Come Fall 2024, will be partnering with a Minnesota High School in offering language classes in Dakota and Ojibwe, in a series of workshops. 4. Develop a comprehensive Tribal Students Care Team Advising/Coaching Model. The Tribal Initiatives Director met regularly over the past year with different academic departments, attended monthly advisory meetings, and held meetings with scholarship recipients on how to best support them. ? Hired a faculty fellow, Hollie Mackey, in January, 2022. Dr. Mackey created a training specialized to understanding the Indigenous culture and students that are on campus. This training is being recorded and issued to faculty/staff for the upcoming 2023-2024 semester. Dr. Mackey is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne nation. This position was funded through the supplemental funds awarded to this project in 2020.
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Progress 08/01/22 to 07/31/23
Outputs
Target Audience:Tribal students and communities are the primary audiences for this project, inclusive of Tribal faculty and staff at NDSU, and regional Tribal Nations. On campus, through our scholarship opportunity, needs assessment, and work to design a community space, we have focused on Tribal students on campus. Our Extension efforts have also focused on Tribal students and administrators at our state TCUs, of which North Dakota has five. Tribal students who receive scholarships are monitored through the Office of Multicultural Programs and our NDSU Extension Tribal Liaison continues to connect with administrators at TCUs. Our target audience also includes the NDSU campus community more broadly as we work on professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, and administrators to expand their knowledge of Indigenous people and Nations with a focus on Tribal communities in North Dakota. Changes/Problems:COVID. COVID continues to impact student recruitment and retention and experience. Though restrictions are lifted, it has a long-lasting impact on families mental and physical lifestyle. Project staff. Project staff continue to experience difficulties related to the pandemic. Tribal communities have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and specific difficulties that are amplified for Tribal staff and students include increased care-giving responsibilities for community and family members due to health concerns or untimely deaths, challenges with finding quiet or distraction-free workspaces, accessing sufficiently robust online resources, financial concerns, and the impossibility of seeing and/or traveling to be with family. Learning and navigating virtual environments have added to workloads and added daily doses of stress are having additional cumulative impacts. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?In April 2022 we again offered the ND Essential Understandings training for campus. Established a Freshman Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access course which was piloted during the 2021-22 academic year. Starting Fall 2022 all incoming students will be required to complete this course. A discussion series, Including U, is a conversation series open to the NDSU community that focuses on a diverse range of experiences and identities in Higher Education. On October 7, 2022 the session topic was Indigenous perspectives. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The NDSU Agriculture and Extension office will again present project activities and outcomes at the Annual Fall Extension conference (Fall 2023). The Agricultural Affairs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Council meets regularly and continues to investigate and adopt good/best practices for building relationships with Indigenous partners. The NDSU Agricultural Affairs DEI Council meets on a bi-monthly basis, and NBTS project updates are regularly shared. This DEI Council has hosted a speaker on land acknowledgement development and use and our NDSU Extension Liaison continues to engage in Tribal community outreach and our project activities are included on our institution's Tribal initiatives webpage: https://www.ndsu.edu/inclusioncouncil/native_american_initiatives/ What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Our project team as well as the advisory council members (T-SEC) will support the TID, Faculty Fellow, and Office of Admissions in: 1) collaborating with NDSU units/staff to develop and pilot Unit Equity Action and Assessment Plans, 2) recruiting and training Unit Liaisons, 3) developing a Care team advising/coaching model/program, 4) creating and coordinating a Cohort mentoring program, 5) working with faculty to further develop faculty learning communities around inclusive teaching and culturally responsive pedagogy, 6) offering FAFSA & College Application Support Events, 7) hosting community gatherings with Tribal students/families, and 8) establishing scholarship fund for Tribal students.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
This project is being engaged in tandem with an earlier grant and has allowed us to further strengthen our efforts to meaningfully address the immediate needs of all Tribally affiliated students while also providing ongoing professional development and working to create policies and practices that prepare NDSU employees in better understanding and serving Tribal students. Because this work is being accomplished in association with that previous grant, some overlapping/interrelated accomplishments may be referenced in both reports. Objective 1. Increase enrollment, retention, graduation of Tribal students. 1.1 To partly support goals of the New Beginnings projects including the partnership with Fargo/West Fargo Indian Education Program an Inclusive Recruitment and Engagement Specialist, Siham Amedy, was hired in April 2022 into a newly revised position in our Admission office which also works collaboratively with our Office of Multicultural Programs. She will focus more intently on working with our local communities to help bridge a connection with them and assist with the process from recruitment to retention with our students. Through this partnership, a new connection between the Fargo West Fargo Indian Education Program and NDSU TRIO Upward Bound Director (Ben Shapiro) has been established. 1.2 Organize recruitment events and tours with TCUs. In May 2023, Jaclynn Wallette and Vanessa Rabitaille-Kinney visited Edwin Kitzes, extension liaison, at United Tribes Technical College. During this meeting campus exchanges were planned for Fall of 2023, including United Tribes Technical College charting a bus full of students to NDSU and NDSU sending faculty/staff and designated students to participate in events at Unite Tribes Technical College. 1.3 Indigenous Peoples Day and Culturally Significant Days Calendar were adopted in Summer 2020. NDSU changed institutional recognition from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day in recognition of too-often overlooked Tribal history and culture. NDSU also expanded recognition days beyond religiously significant days to include culturally significant dates such as Juneteenth. Hosted an Indigenous Student Visit Day in November 2022.This annual event included a NDSU student-led panel discussion and was attended by 106 students (121 total people). Partnered with the Indigenous Association in Fargo-Moorhead on planning for Indigenous Peoples Day 2023. Objective 2. Develop institutional environment to support Tribal student retention, and graduation. 2.1 & S1 Hired the Tribal Initiatives Director (TID) in the winter of 2022 to lead collaborations with campus entities in providing ongoing training for administrators, faculty and staff as well as different programming techniques for Indigenous students on campus. Vanessa Rabitaille-Kinney, TID,Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, met regularly with Indigenous studentson how to best support them, and what events or celebrations can be created to drive their interest and would help them feel like they belong at North Dakota State University. Vanessa Collaborated in the planning and execution of the 32ndAnnual Woodland High Plains Powwow alongside other universities in the Fargo-Moorhead area and has been designated as Powwow chair for the 33rd Annual Woodland High Plains Powwow.This position was funded through the supplemental funds awarded to this project in 2021. 2.2 Two local TCU Presidents have provided faculty pedagogical luncheon keynote presentations at NDSU and have strongly encouraged faculty to reach out to their TCU peers to investigate possible collaborations; NDSU's new University President has prioritized visiting and establishing relationships with ND TCUs as he came onboard this spring and summer of 2022. Objective 3. Create an inclusive, welcoming, educated, and responsive campus community. 3.1 - 3.4 A variety of Professional Development opportunities focused on Tribal concerns are offered several times a year for faculty, staff, and administrators. Additional NDNAEU training is planned. Participants will be recruited to become members of a Team of Champions cohort who will provide additional guidance/recommendations for integrating learning into required Equal Opportunity trainings and to support faculty in applying their increased knowledge and awareness regarding Tribal students to their academic/curricular praxis. In May 2022, NDSU's Office of Teaching and Learning and the Learning and Applied Innovation Center hosted a teaching and learning conference that focused on inclusive teaching. The keynote speaker, Dr. Shannon Davidson from Education Northwest, addressed how to implement trauma informed practices in the classroom. Other sessions offered during the conference included topics such as alternative grading, instructor mindset and the racial achievement gap, negotiating language diversity, different models for skills development, and support for adult learners, students during pandemic and grief, wellness, and mental health. To build community connections project team members: Collaborated in the planning and execution of the 32nd Annual Woodland High Plains Powwow alongside other universities in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Hosted TCU students for 2023 summer engineering courses. Rabitaille-Kinney, TID, provided an informal presentation on Indigenous life on campus and what events can be expected for the 2023-2024 school year. 4. Develop a comprehensive Tribal Students Care Team Advising/Coaching Model. The Tribal Initiatives Director met regularly over the past year with different academic departments, attended monthly advisory meetings, andheld meetings with scholarship recipients on how to best support them. Hired a faculty fellow, Hollie Mackey, in January, 2022. Dr. Mackey created a training specialized to understanding the Indigenous culture and students that are on campus. This training is being recorded and issued to faculty/staff for the upcoming 2023-2024 semester. Dr. Mackey is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne nation. This position was funded through the supplemental funds awarded to this project in 2020.
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Progress 08/01/21 to 07/31/22
Outputs
Target Audience:Tribal students and communities are the primary audiences for this project, inclusive of Tribal faculty and staff at NDSU, and regional Tribal Nations. On campus, through our scholarship opportunity, needs assessment, and work to design a community space, we have focused on Tribal students on campus. Our Extension efforts have also focused on Tribal students and administrators at our state TCUs, of which North Dakota has five. Tribal students who receive scholarships are monitored through the Office of Multicultural Programs and our NDSU Extension Tribal Liaison continues to connect with administrators at TCUs. Our target audience also includes the NDSU campus community more broadly as we work on professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, and administrators to expand their knowledge of Indigenous people and Nations with a focus on Tribal communities in North Dakota. Changes/Problems:COVID. COVID continues to impact student recruitment and retention. Not all TCUs are available for in-person events on their campuses. Project staff. Project staff continue to experience difficulties related to the pandemic. Difficulties that are amplified for Tribal staff include increased care-giving responsibilities for community and family members, including untimely deaths, challenges with finding quiet or distraction-free workspaces, accessing sufficiently robust online resources, financial concerns, and the impossibility of seeing and/or traveling to be with family. Learning and navigating virtual environments have added to workloads and added daily doses of stress are having additional cumulative impacts. We were able to hire a Tribal Initiatives Director, Tyrel Iron Eyes, Standing Rock Lakota and Dakota, who joined our project team in November 2021 and supported student mentoring and retention efforts. In May 2022, Tyrel Iron Eyes accepted a position as Standing Rock Tribal Archaeologist and a search is underway to fill NDSU's Tribal Initiatives position. Tyrel Iron Eyes has asked to remain on the project as a consultant. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?In April 2022 we again offered the ND Essential Understandings training for campus. Established a Freshman Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access course which was piloted during the 2021-22 academic year. Starting Fall 2022 all incoming students will be required to complete this course. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The NDSU Agriculture and Extension office will again present project activities and outcomes at the Annual Fall Extension conference (Fall 2022). The Agricultural Affairs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Council meets regularly and continues to investigate and adopt good/best practices for building relationships with Indigenous partners. Our project team members are working on publications that describe and discuss the project approach, internal and external needs assessment findings, activities, and lessons learned. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We will prioritize the re-hiring for the Tribal Initiatives Director (TID) position. Our project team as well as the advisory council members (T-SEC and PCDIR) will support the TID, Faculty Fellow, and Office of Admissions in: 1) collaborating with NDSU units/staff to develop and pilot Unit Equity Action and Assessment Plans, 2) recruiting and training Unit Liaisons, 3) developing a Care team advising/coaching model/program, 4) creating and coordinating a Cohort mentoring program, 5) working with faculty to further develop faculty learning communities around inclusive teaching and culturally responsive pedagogy, 6) offering FAFSA & College Application Support Events, 7) hosting community gatherings with Tribal students/families, and 8) establishing scholarship fund for Tribal students.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
This project is being engaged in tandem with an earlier grant and has allowed us to further strengthen our efforts to meaningfully address the immediate needs of all Tribally affiliated students while also providing ongoing professional development and working to create policies and practices that prepare NDSU employees in better understanding and serving Tribal students. Because this work is being accomplished in association with that previous grant, some overlapping/interrelated accomplishments may be referenced in both reports. Objective 1. Increase enrollment, retention, graduation of Tribal students. 1.1 To partly support goals of the New Beginnings projects including the partnership with Fargo/West Fargo Indian Education Program an Inclusive Recruitment and Engagement Specialist, Siham Amedy, was hired in April 2022 into a newly revised position in our Admission office which also works collaboratively with our Office of Multicultural Programs. She will focus more intently on working with our local communities to help bridge a connection with them and assist with the process from recruitment to retention with our students. Through this partnership, a new connection between the Fargo West Fargo Indian Education Program and NDSU TRIO Upward Bound Director (Ben Shapiro) has been established. Siham Amedy has also been actively recruiting on campus for Native American student tutors. 1.2 Organize recruitment events and tours with TCUs. COVID delayed our recruitment activities. This activity will be planned in fall 2022. 1.3 Indigenous Peoples Day and Culturally Significant Days Calendar were adopted in Summer 2020. NDSU changed institutional recognition from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day in recognition of too-often overlooked Tribal history and culture. NDSU also expanded recognition days beyond religiously significant days to include culturally significant dates such as Juneteenth. Hosted an Indigenous Student Visit Day in November 2021.This inaugural event included a NDSU student-led panel discussion and was attended by 88 students (121 total people). Partnered with the Indigenous Association in Fargo-Moorhead on planning for Indigenous Peoples Day 2022. Objective 2. Develop institutional environment to support Tribal student retention, and graduation. 2.1 & S1 Hired the Tribal Initiatives Director (TID) in the fall of 2021 to lead collaborations with campus entities in providing ongoing training for administrators, faculty and staff as well as development of Unit Equity Action and Assessment plans, and to provide direct support to NDSU Tribal students. Tyrel Iron Eyes, TID, Standing Rock Lakota and Dakota, met regularly with tutoring and career and advising representatives during the academic year, held meetings with scholarship recipients on how to best support them, and collaborated in the planning and execution of the 31st Annual Woodland High Plains Powwow alongside other universities in the Fargo-Moorhead area. This position was funded through the supplemental funds awarded to this project in 2021. In May 2022, Tyrel Iron Eyes was offered and accepted a position as Standing Rock Tribal Archaeologist. A search is underway to fill NDSU'sTribal Initiatives position. 2.2 The Tribal Advisory Council will be reconfigured as a standing committee of the President's Council for Diversity, Inclusion and Respect beginning Fall 2022. 2.3 Unit Equity Action and Assessment Plans are under development; the TID position will provide primary coordination of Unit plans. 2.4 Two local TCU Presidents have provided faculty pedagogical luncheon keynote presentations at NDSU and have strongly encouraged faculty to reach out to their TCU peers to investigate possible collaborations; NDSU's new University President has prioritized visiting and establishing relationships with ND TCUs as he came onboard this spring and summer of 2022. Objective 3. Create an inclusive, welcoming, educated, and responsive campus community. 3.1 - 3.4 A variety of Professional Development opportunities focused on Tribal concerns are offered several times a year for faculty, staff, and administrators. Our team has hosted several ND Essential Understandings workshops (most recently 4/7/22 Training/Luncheon). Additional NDNAEU training is planned. Participants will be recruited to become members of a Team of Champions cohort who will provide additional guidance/recommendations for integrating learning into required Equal Opportunity trainings and to support faculty in applying their increased knowledge and awareness regarding Tribal students to their academic/curricular praxis. In May 2022, NDSU's Office of Teaching and Learning and the Learning and Applied Innovation Center hosted a teaching and learning conference that focused on inclusive teaching. The keynote speaker, Dr. Shannon Davidson from Education Northwest, addressed how to implement trauma informed practices in the classroom. Other sessions offered during the conference included topics such as alternative grading, instructor mindset and the racial achievement gap, negotiating language diversity, different models for skills development, and support for adult learners, students during pandemic and grief, wellness, and mental health. To build community connections project team members collaborated in the planning and execution of the 31st Annual Woodland High Plains Powwow alongside other universities in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Hosted TCU students for 2021 summer engineering courses. 4. Develop a comprehensive Tribal Students Care Team Advising/Coaching Model. The Tribal Initiatives Director met regularly over the past year with tutoring and career and advising representatives and held meetings with scholarship recipients on how to best support them. This objective will be an area of focus in Year 2 of the project. Hired a faculty fellow, Hollie Mackey, in January, 2022 to develop a training curriculum centered on Indigenous teaching and learning methods for peer educators to use while mentoring Tribal students. Dr. Mackey is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne nation. The training curriculum has been created. Student Success Programs staff is currently in the process of hiring a student peer mentor and/or trainer to fully implement the training curriculum and peer mentoring aspect of the proposal for fall semester 2022. This position was funded through the supplemental funds awarded to this project in 2020.
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