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Financial aid for college is up in the air for tens of thousands of students after changes to the national Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as FAFSA, upended the application process for 2024. (Photo via FAFSA)
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Watchdog group decries FAFSA snafus, demands stronger leadership

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
Megan Red Shirt-Shaw speaks at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, on Jan. 17, 2023. Two University of South Dakota faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw and her husband, John Little, have long included their gender pronouns and tribal affiliations in their work email signature blocks. But both received written warnings from the university in March that doing so violated a policy adopted by the South Dakota Board of Regents in December. (Ryan Pagelow/Dominican University via AP)
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South Dakota Board of Regents clamp down on use of tribal affiliations in email signatures

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
From the chapter, "Stories We Love." An eagle feather? When representation of a Native Nation gets in the way of graduation. (Illustration by Tomás Karmelo Amaya, Indian Country Today)
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Standing Rock graduate’s cap and plume taken during ceremony

By Amelia Schafer
Education
The country's first tribally affiliated medical school – Oklahoma State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at Cherokee Nation – will celebrate its inaugural class of 46 students at its May 16 spring commencement. (Photo courtesy of Oklahoma State University)
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New medical school trains modern Indigenous healers

By Felix Clary
Education
From the chapter, "Stories We Love." An eagle feather? When representation of a Native Nation gets in the way of graduation. (Illustration by Tomás Karmelo Amaya, Indian Country Today)
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Tips for wearing Native regalia at graduation

By Aliyah Chavez
Education
Ahniwake Rose begins her new job as president for the American Indian in Higher Education Consortium on July 1, 2024. (Photo Courtesy Ahniwake Rose)
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American Indian Higher Education Consortium taps new leader

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
A pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, Friday, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP, Yuki Iwamura)
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Native students join pro-Palestine campus protests

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
The Coughlin Campanile - a 165-foot-tall chimes tower - rises up amid the trees on the campus of South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. (Photo courtesy of South Dakota State University)
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Financial aid upheaval puts college students at risk

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
Shiny trophies adorn the stage at the 2024 AIHEC Awards Banquet in Minneapolis. At least 30 tribal colleges competed in everything from academic events and film, hand games, business, archery, basketball and poetry. (Photo: Renata Birkenbuel, ICT)
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Tribal college students rack up trophies at higher-ed convention

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2019 file photo, pedestrians walk near a Northeastern University sign on the school's campus in Boston. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi, File)
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Demystifying the graduate school application process

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
Tribal College Journal at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium legislative summit during Tribal College Week in February 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)
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Joe Biden celebrates tribal colleges, promises student loan help

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
Matika Wilbur, Swinomish and Tulalip, shares her stories, exquisite photographs and curriculum tid-bits with fellow educators at the National Indian Education Association conference in Albuquerque recently. Her book, "Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America," published last April. (Photo Credit Renata Birkenbuel, ICT)
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Multi-talented Matika Wilbur shares curriculum tid-bits

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
Beth Klemestrud, right, associate professor in chemical engineering at the University of North Dakota, guides Red Lake Middle School students through a science and engineering outreach program. (Photo courtesy of UND)
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Tribal-driven energy grant invites communities to choose

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education
First-ever Ph.D. graduates in Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota are, from left, Danya Carroll, Cole Allick, Amy Stiffarm and Mona Zuffante. All wear star quilts that the department – under the auspices of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences – gifted them. (Photo courtesy of the University of North Dakota)
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Native health program celebrates first four graduates

By Renata Birkenbuel
Education