Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
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Reclaiming the Narrative: Creating and Sustaining Culturally Appropriate University Programs for American Indian Students
Abstract
Using Kirkness and Barnhardt’s (2001) Four R’s approach, the paper will demonstrate both successes and challenges in the development and implementation of sustainable programs for recruitment and retention of American Indian students at a Primarily White Institution of higher education. Historically, the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNC Asheville website, n.d.) has had very few continuous and concerted efforts to recruit, retain, and build relationships with the surrounding American Indian community. This can be seen most clearly in the current institutional data, which shows that the American Indian student population makes up only 0.005 percent of the total student community. However, a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding between the institution and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians offers hope for the future.
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Adcock, Trey
(2020)
"Reclaiming the Narrative: Creating and Sustaining Culturally Appropriate University Programs for American Indian Students,"
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society: Vol. 45:
No.
1, Article 6.
DOI: 10.56702/MPMC7908/saspro4501.5
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southernanthro_proceedings/vol45/iss1/6