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College Engagement
Essential Questions & Enduring Understandings
*These resources are primarily for Grades 6-12. If you are looking for Elementary resources, they are on the Elementary page.
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With strategic guidance, opportunities and tools, all students can map and journey hopeful post-secondary paths.
- Collaboration is essential to creating and implementing a strategic,effective and culturally honoring College and Career Pathways program.
- Communities hold essential resources and wisdom when it comes to ensuring that youth strive and succeed beyond high school.
- Consistent, constructive communication within and between schools, higher education institutions and community organizations fosters essential insight, cohesion and growth on behalf of the students we seek to serve.
- Identifying, training and supporting new C&CP mentors is essential when it comes to ensuring a sustainable C&CP model.
- Does the College & Career Pathways program support and honor identity and community?
- What is the connection between my higher education and the wellness of my community?
- How do perseverance and organization strengthen my ability to succeed and give back to my community and lands?
- How do I attend college and achieve my dreams, while remaining connected to my identity, community and lands?
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Summers, Juana “How is the Native College Experience Different?” National Public Radio 27 July 2014. Web.
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Perez, Angel B. “The ‘Best and Brightest’ Aren’t Always Obvious” Chronicle of Higher Education 21 July 2014. Web.
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Tough, Paul “Who Gets To Graduate?” The New York Times Magazine 15 May 2014. Web.
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College Horizons: College bridge and prep program for Native students: http://collegehorizons.publishpath.com/
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Native American Rights Fund: Clerkships and internship: http://www.narf.org/clerks/
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Center for Native American Youth: Fellowships, Internships and Scholarships: http://www.cnay.org/ForYouth.html
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Questbridge Scholars : Match program, scholarship, prep programs: http://www.questbridge.org/for-students/students-start-here
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Financial Aid for Native students: http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/natamind.phtml
College Engagement team and NACA Alum speak to the importance of maximizing opportunities for students and supporting them to and through college.
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Alaska students’ pathways from high school to postsecondary education and employment, Regional Educational Laboratory, 2016
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Helping College-Bound Native Americans Beat The Odds, NPR, 2016