AISS Academic Advisement Program
American Indian Student Services assists new freshmen and transfer students in the promotion of their academic success by providing quality academic advisement. A professional academic advisor is on staff to meet students' admission needs, provide continual academic and personal support, and serve as a liaison between the students, faculty and various departments.
For more information contact:
Dr. Linda Neuerburg, AISS Program Coordinator
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
(701) 777-2578 fax:701-777-3292
linda_neuerburg@und.nodak.edu
AISS Comprehensive Recruitment Program
American Indian Student Services receive funding each year to assist American Indian students seeking enrollment in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs at the University.The staff visits high schools and community colleges on all the reservations in North Dakota and South Dakota, several reservations in Montana and Minnesota; several schools off the reservations with large Native American populations; attends numerous national American Indian conferences and local career fairs to promote UND and the opportunities for American Indian Students.
For more information contact:
Keith Malaterre, Program Director
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
701-777-4291 fax:701-777-3292
keith.malaterre@und.edu
AISS Leadership Luncheon Series
American Indian Student Services hosts several Leadership Luncheons throughout the year that bring together American Indian students and UND President Charles Kupchella. AISS staff members accompany the students, along with campus leaders such as Dr. Robert Boyd, Vice President of Student & Outreach Services, Lillian Elsinga, Associate Vice President for Student Services/Dean of Students, and Alice Hoffert, Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management. This program provides students with the opportunity to visit with the president and other campus leaders.
Students who have previously participated in the Leadership Luncheon with the president enjoyed themselves and benefited from interacting with persons in leadership positions. And while nurturing the channels of communication between the administration and our students is a primary goal of these lunches, AISS is also very excited to share the talents, stories, experiences, and career goals of our students with campus leaders who strive to provide effective supportive services.
For more information contact:
Michelle Kozel, AISS Program Coordinator
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
(701) 777-6329 fax:701-777-3292
michelle_kozel@und.edu
AISS Learning Lab
American Indian Students receive free, walk-in tutoring. The program features computer assistance and tutoring in a wide variety of course work, Sunday through Thursday evenings
For more information contact:
Michelle Kozel, Coordinator
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
701-777-6329 fax:701-777-3292
michelle_kozel@und.edu
AISS Living and Learning Community
The AISS Living and Leaning Community provides new and transfer stuents the opportunity to live together as American Indian students. The AISS Learning Community will provide a more conductive environment for American Indian students to adjust to living in a university dorm setting. There will be evening sessions with AISS staff and many other opportunities to help students with their first year at UND.leadership skills.
For more informationn contact:
Keith Malaterre, Program Director
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
(701) 777-4291 fax:701-777-3292
keith.malaterre@und.edu
AISS New Student Orientation Program
In conjunction with the UND Fall Orientation Program, this program provides information regarding the support services available to American Indian students and assists students with the transition to UND. It also provides new American Indian students the opportunity to meet American Indian staff, UND faculty, and returning American Indian students.
For more information contact:
Dr. Linda Neuerburg, AISS Program Coordinator
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
(701) 777-2578 fax:701-777-3292
linda_neuerburg@und.edu
AISS Retention Program
The AISS Retention Program is a student success program for American Indian freshman and transfer students at UND that monitors their academic progress, gives guidance and direction, provides tutoring, etc. The program was created to support, guide, and encourage American Indian students to successfully achieve academic goals, foster career goals, develop personal life skills, and attain leadership skills.
For more informationn contact:
Keith Malaterre, Program Director
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
(701) 777-4292 fax:701-777-3292
keith.malaterre@und.edu
AISS Soup on Friday
American Indian Student Services hosts Food for Finals each Reading and Review Day, which provides staff an opportunity to treat the students, and provides students with healthy “food for thought” during the stressful days of final exams. Additionally, AISS features Soup Day most Fridays throughout the chilly months, and students truly appreciate a warm bowl of homemade soup, the aroma filling the American Indian Center every Friday at lunchtime.
For more information contact:
Darlene Nelson
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58201
(701) 777-4291 fax:701-777-3292
aiss@und.edu
AISS Tribal High School Days
AISS hosts 3-day recruitment visits for American Indian students in grades 9-12 to the UND campus. This opportunity provides high school students, many from rural reservation communities, with information and activities geared toward successfully pursuing a college education. Activities include application and financial aid instructions, campus and community tours, advisement, friendship and fun!
For more information contact:
Keith Malaterre, Program Director
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
(701) 777-4291 fax:701-777-3292
keith.malaterre@und.edu
American Indian Programs Council
This standing committee is charged to strengthen and further develop programs serving American Indian students and other American Indian people on reservations throughout North America. The group is specifically charged to reccommend ways and means of strengthening existing programs designed to provide support to American Indian students; recommend new ways and means of supporting American Indian students; recommend new ways and means of serving American Indian people throughout the United States and Canada; and recommend ways and means of educating the campus and greater community about American Indian culture.
For more information contact Co-chairs: Dr. Robert Boyd, Vice Predent for Student and Outreach Services, at (701) 777-2724 and Dr.Weisenstenin, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, at (701) 777-2167
American Indian Student Services
The Office of American Indian Student Services assists the University of North Dakota in developing the talents of the largest ethnic minority in the state, American Indians. This program works with all aspects of the University to maintain a climate that is responsive to the needs of American Indians and serves as general institutional contact for American Indian students
American Indian Student Services utilizes a unique team advising approach to ensure that American Indian students' needs are met. Staff provide expertise in the areas of admissions; financial aid; housing; and academic, personal and cultural advisement. American Indian Student Services has a student computer lab which provides technology and walk-in tutoring Sunday-Thursday evenings.
AISS is responsible for administering the American Indian Center, coordinating recruitment, establishing communication channels, assisting with institutional planning, advising faculty and staff as to the needs of American Indian students, and serving as an advocate. The office administers a project development/grant writing service that assists students, faculty, staff, and American Indian organizations. The program also acts as a liaison with the reservation communities to bring the University and the students' home communities closer together
For More information contact:
Dr. Leigh Jeanotte, Director
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
(701)777-4291 fax:701-777-3292
leigh_jeanotte@und.edu
ND Bridges to Baccalaureate Program
The North Dakota Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program is made possible
by collaboration between the five tribal colleges located in the state: Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Fort Berthold Community College, Sitting Bull College, Turtle Mountain Community College, and United Tribes Technical College; the University of North Dakota (UND); and select faculty from North Dakota State University (NDSU). The goals of the program are to increase awareness, interest and motivation among tribal college students for pursuit of biomedically related degrees beyond the Associate of Arts; to complement and supplement existing efforts at the tribal colleges to provide educational experiences that prepare students academically to transition to four-year programs; and to foster the existing collaboration and cooperation among the faculty and administrators of the tribal colleges. For more information contact Katherine Sukalski; Director, at the number above, e-mail: sukalski@medicine.nodak.edu
Dakota Geriatics Education Center
The Dakota Geriatric Education Center (GEC) is a comprehensive geriatric education program that is located in the Center for Rural Health (CRH) at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences (UNDSMHS). The project is a consortium effort designed to meet the unique geriatric health care needs of North Dakota elders throughout the state, by providing educational experiences at the undergraduate, graduate, and post graduate level. The project places a special emphasis on American Indian elders concentrated on five reservations, an area primarily served by the Indian Health Service (IHS), and four urban areas that are experiencing an increase in American Indian elders due to the proximity of tertiary health care services. In addition to the University of North Dakota SMHS, the consortium includes the United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) and the North Dakota State University School of Pharmacy (NDSUSP). The Dakota GEC will provide training for the following health professions: Family physicians, internists, and generalists through a statewide network of family practice centers, the UNDSMHS Continuing Medical Education Program, and the state association of family physicians. Nurses, including the full spectrum of nursing professions (family nurse practioners, graduate prepared nurses, bachelors prepared nurses, certificate prepared nurses, certified nurse anesthetists, and nursing assistants of all types). Pharmacists Mental health professionals including social workers, counselors, and psychologists. Family practice residents Physical therapy
Occupational therapy, and Health administration
For more information contact:
Dr. Jacque Gray, Program Coordinator
e-mail: jgray@medicine.nodak.edu
Where and Room 000,
Box 9037, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202
Phone: (701)777-0582, Fax: (701)777-6779
www.med.und.nodak.edu/dept/rural
AISS Food for Finals
American Indian Student Services hosts Food for Finals each Reading and Review Day, which provides staff an opportunity to treat the students, and provides students with healthy “food for thought” during the stressful days of final exams. Additionally, AISS features Soup Day most Fridays throughout the chilly months, and students truly appreciate a warm bowl of homemade soup, the aroma filling the American Indian Center every Friday at lunchtime.
For more information contact:
Darlene Nelson
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58201
(701) 777-4291 fax:701-777-3292
aiss@und.edu
Indians Into Engineering
The purpose of this program is to establish an annual cohort of students who will be mutually supportive as they prepare for admission to the School of Engineering. Preparation will begin in their junior year of high school up to and including tribal college students. The cohort will be supported, tutored, advised, and mentored so they will be ready for enrollment at UND. For more information please contact
Dr. John Watson, Dean.
e-mail: john.watson@mail.und.nodak.edu
School of Engineering and Mines Room 000; Box 8155
Phone: (701) 777-3411; FAX (701)777-4838
Ralph Johnson
e-mail: ralphjohnson@mail.und.nodak.edu
School of Engineering and Mines Room 000; Box 8359
Phone: (701) 777-2571; FAX (701)777-2271
North Dakota Bridges to Baccalaureate Program
United Tribes Community Educators Program II (UTCEP-II)
In response to the critical need for American Indian teachers in schools that primarily serve American Indian students, the United Tribes Technical College (UTTC), in collaboration with the UND Departments of Education and Human Development (EHD) and American Indian Student Services (AISS), assists 8 American Indian students in completing a degree in secondary education and 4 American Indian teachers in completing a master's degree in Teaching and Learning. Project participants include tribal college and K-12 schools who primarily serve American Indian students in North Dakota . Student participants must be enrolled members of a federally recognized tribe (or a descendant), possess leadership potential, and have a minimum 2.75 GPA for undergraduate admissions; or be admissible to UND's Graduate School of Education for graduate participants. Upon completion of either level of the program, participants will return to a school that serves a high percentage of American Indian students as determined by the Office of Indian Education.
For more information contact:
Keith Malaterre, Program Coordinator
Box 8274
Grand Forks, ND 58202
701-777-4292
United Tribes Principal Leadership for American Indians
in Native Schools (UT-PLAINS)
United Tribes Principal Leadership for American Indians in Native Schools (UT-PLAINS)
The UT PLAINS project is a partnership between United Tribes Technical College (UTTC), the University of North Dakota (UND) and up to 15 partner school
districts to prepare American Indian elementary and secondary principals for
leadership in schools with significant populations of American Indian students. This project is designed to address the chronic shortage of certified and culturally responsive American Indian elementary and secondary principals in North Dakota. The UT PLAINS project provides an intensive, coherent and sustained leadership development program focusing on leadership for systemic reform. The participants will complete master's degree program based upon current research and aligned to accreditation standards that will enable participants to receive an elementary or secondary principal's credential in the state of North Dakota. In addition, UT PLAINS project participants will also
complete a full-year personalized induction program to successfully induct
them into their administrative position.
For more information contact
Dr. Angela Koppang, Program Director
e-mail: angela.koppang@und.nodak.edu
College of Education and Human Development, Room 000,
Phone: (701) 777-3249
United Tribes Special Education Program
(UT-SEP)
United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) in partnership with the University of North Dakota (UND), College of Education, Center for Teaching and Learning, Special Education Department, and up to 15 local education agencies in the state of North Dakota requests over four years to support a special education: learning disabilities (LD) and early childhood special education (ECSE) program. In response to the growing need, the consortium partners plan to train at the master’s level, sixteen American Indian teachers in special education: LD and ECSE. The following objectives will result in the aforementioned outcome being attained: Objective 1: To recruit 16 American Indian teachers (PreK-12) into the Special Education master’s program at the University of North Dakota. Objective 2: To retain 16 American Indian teachers (PreK-12) in the Special Education master’s program for two years, resulting in a 100% graduation rate. Objective 3: To provide professional development through a one-year induction program for 16 American Indian teachers (PreK-12 with LD or ECSE credentials). Objective 4: To complete project participant evaluation activities. The entire project will be completed over a four year time frame.
For more information contact:
Marjorie Bock, Program Director,
e-mail: marjorie.bock@und.nodak.edu
College of Education and Human Development, Box 7189
Phone: (701) 777-2863
AIBL
AIBL promotes an adaptable educational environment for American Indian business students, and was a 1995 recipient of the Outstanding Student organization Award at UND.
For more information contact:
Linda Neuerburg, AISS Program Coordinator
701-777-2578
linda_neuerburg@und.edu
