United Tribes News
Educators gather at UTTC, SBC
4 December 2003
BISMARCK, ND - Distinguished educators from across the country gathered November 21 for a joint seminar and campus visits to United Tribes Technical College here and Sitting Bull College, Fort Yates, ND. Participants were members of the Kellogg MSI Leadership Fellows Program, a new leadership development initiative among education leaders from the nation's Minority Serving Institutions.
The gathering was billed as an historic meeting of African American, Native American, and Hispanic leaders at two of the nation's best-known Tribal Colleges.
The yearlong fellowship program is designed to prepare participants for presidential and senior leadership positions. Organizers predicted that by the end of this decade, "at least half of the individuals who participate in the leadership program will have served or be serving as a president, provost or other high-level senior leader at a minority-serving college or university."
The program emerged from discussions one year ago among leaders of the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education. Alliance members are the nation's 35 Tribal Colleges and Universities represented by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, more than 200 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and more than 100 Associate HSIs represented by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, and 119 Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other predominantly Black institutions represented by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.
Obtain more information about the leadership program at www.msi-alliance.org.
