EEOP - Career Manual, Chapter 1, Section 1: For Students

American Indian Educational Opportunities
There are three American Indian colleges in our region that are not in their states’ community college systems. Diné College, operated by Navajo Nation, has campuses in Tsaile, Arizona, and Shiprock, New Mexico. The Shiprock campus offers an Earth/Environmental Sciences Program. The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute at Albuquerque also offers college level studies in a culturally sensitive atmosphere. The Crownpoint Institute of Technology, on the eastern edge of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, grants Associate of Applied Science degrees and Certification programs in Environmental Technology and Natural Resources. All of New Mexico’s universities, colleges and community colleges can be accessed via www.nmche.org/.

Arizona’s community colleges provide certification in certain environmental technologies and Associate degrees that can be the foundation for a Bachelor’s degree at a four year college. Both the University of Arizona, in Tucson and Arizona State University, in Tempe, offer world-class environmental programs that are described in more detail in Chapter 4, “Postsecondary Environmental Education in Arizona.” Also in the Southwest, in Durango, Colorado, Fort Lewis College offers twenty-four Bachelor’s degree programs, including those in Environmental Studies, Forestry, Biology, Geology, Geographic Information Systems and Southwest Studies.

Outside of the Southwest, Haskell Indian Nations’ University, in Lawrence Kansas, has proudly educated Native American students for 115 years. Haskell does not charge students for the costs of tuition, housing and board. Many colleges offer incoming students a transitional or bridge summer session. Students usually attend the summer before beginning their first semester, living in dormitories and participating in at least one introductory college course for academic credit. Participants are introduced to the social and academic atmosphere of the campus and are offered academic and career counseling. See the “Transitional ‘Bridge’ Programs” in Chapter 4, Section 3, for specific bridge programs at Arizona’s four-year colleges.

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Environmental Education Outreach Program (EEOP)
Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP)
PO Box 5768 Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5768 Phone: (928) 523-1275 Fax: (928) 523-1280
E-mail: eeop@nau.edu