Harvard University
Announcement
No tuition and no student loans
Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only ten percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in the lower half of the income distribution, we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the income distribution." If you know of a family earning less than $60,000 a year with an honor student graduating from high school soon, Harvard University wants to pay the tuition. The prestigious university recently announced that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families can go to Harvard for free... no tuition and no student loans! To find out more about Harvard offering free tuition for families making less than $60,000 a year, visit Harvard's financial aid website at:http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/or call the school's financial aid office at (617) 495-1581.
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No tuition and no student loans
Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only ten percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in the lower half of the income distribution, we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the income distribution." If you know of a family earning less than $60,000 a year with an honor student graduating from high school soon, Harvard University wants to pay the tuition. The prestigious university recently announced that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families can go to Harvard for free... no tuition and no student loans! To find out more about Harvard offering free tuition for families making less than $60,000 a year, visit Harvard's financial aid website at:http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/or call the school's financial aid office at (617) 495-1581.
SEND TO SOMEONE WHETHER THEY CAN USE OR NOT. THEY JUST MIGHT KNOW SOMEONE WHO CAN.
Five graduating seniors from Hoopa Valley High School are the only Native American recipients from the entire state of California who are Gates Millenium Scholars this year.
Elisha Flores, Darian Ferris, Ashtyn Colegrove, Orion Cosce and Ryan Matilton have received full college scholarships, including living expenses, tuition, fees, books and materials, to complete their undergraduate college educations.
Elisha Flores, Darian Ferris, Ashtyn Colegrove, Orion Cosce and Ryan Matilton have received full college scholarships, including living expenses, tuition, fees, books and materials, to complete their undergraduate college educations.
To keep its language alive the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians pledged $1 million to Fresno State‚s College of Arts and Humanities for the Department of Linguistics May 7.
College faculty and students have been working with native speakers of the language since 2009 to devise a writing system and produce a dictionary. These funds will further that effort. Before now the language hasn't existed on paper.FULL STORY AT:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/10/tribe-donates-1-million-to-preserve-chukchansi-language-112217
College faculty and students have been working with native speakers of the language since 2009 to devise a writing system and produce a dictionary. These funds will further that effort. Before now the language hasn't existed on paper.FULL STORY AT:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/10/tribe-donates-1-million-to-preserve-chukchansi-language-112217
The June 19-21, 2012 Conference provides interactive workshops and discussions on ICWA requirements, active efforts and permanency, collaboration, and service provisions. Other tentative workshops include: cultural competency, trauma, ICWA and delinquency, beginning and advanced ICWA, CAPP, CDSS updates, and a judges' panel. Eureka Office Directing Attorney Delia Parr urges, "The conference provides a unique opportunity to share and learn about ICWA-specific issues in our State. We are expecting an enthusiastic response.
For more information please see:
http://www.calindian.org/pdfs/ICWAconfflyer.pdf
http://www.calindian.org/news/181-2012-statewide-icwa-conference
For more information please see:
http://www.calindian.org/pdfs/ICWAconfflyer.pdf
http://www.calindian.org/news/181-2012-statewide-icwa-conference
American Indians and Behavioral Health Issues in California: Implications for Culturally Appropriate Treatment
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Show Me The Money
June 12, 2012 - 3:00am
A seat on a private university board comes with a lot of authority. Trustees hire presidents, approve budgets, often have final say on academic programs, and are increasingly vested with the responsibility of determining how to invest giant sums of money.
But giant sums of money tend to mean giant questions.
Maintaining strong returns on university investments has become pivotal to the long-term health of many colleges and universities. As a result, individuals with experience and connections in financial management have become common on governing boards. But having people on the board who have connections to the financial world raises the possibility of conflicts of interest – board members privately benefiting by placing the college’s investments in their own firms.
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis – when colleges with endowments greater than $1 billion lost an average of 20.5 percent, leading to significant cuts and the disruption of local economies – employees, students, and community members have begun to criticize the high-risk strategy endowment managers adopted over the past few decades. They have also questioned whether those managers are making investments with their institutions’ best interests in mind, highlighting instances where trustees invested an institution’s money with firms in which they had a personal financial stake.
There have been several instances of groups alleging that board members acted illegally or unethically, the most recent example being an allegation, under review by the New Hampshire attorney general, that surfaced last month at Dartmouth College that the board was steering the college’s $3.4-billion endowment to its members’ firms.
Inside Higher Ed
The book builds on storytelling traditions honored in the original Eagle Books series for younger children. Animal and human characters return with an expanded list of characters that includes family members, teachers, store owners, other residents of a small reservation town—and an elderly box turtle. Broadening the dialogue about preventing type 2 diabetes presented in the original books, Coyote and the Turtle’s Dream also introduces the character of Arianna, a young girl living with type 1 diabetes. Native youth and tribal leaders reviewed the book prior to publication and their comments are featured on the book cover and inside pages.
Type 2 diabetes is becoming more common everywhere, including American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Native Americans aged 10 to 19 are developing type 2 diabetes at higher rates than youth in other racial and ethnic groups of this age. In part because type 2 diabetes is often associated with being overweight or obese, many tribal communities are dedicated to engaging youth and families to reclaim traditional ways of health such as being physically active and eating healthy local foods. The Native Diabetes Wellness Program expresses deep appreciation to tribal leaders who early on recognized the need for stories about type 2 diabetes prevention and the many champions who ensure that the stories are remembered, retold, and talked about in communities across the country.
CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation, through the Native Diabetes Wellness Program, supports culturally relevant initiatives for preventing type 2 diabetes in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. For more information about the book, and to order free copies, please visit http://wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/Diabetes.aspxor call 1-800-CDC-INFO.
Petition Letter, Chumash Wind Caves - Husahkiw.
Husahkiw’s Wind Caves houses a rare and magnificent auditory and geographical features, multi-pigment rock paintings, sacred springs and ceremonial sites held in sacred regard by Chumash peoples, past and present. The gun club activity is inconsistent with Cultural Traditional Properties and Forest Service visitor activity. We are under constant gunfire and the lead, arsenic, copper and other chemicals have turned this mountain into an industrial contamination site. www.change.org