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QEM/TCUP STEM LEADERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (LDI)
COHORT II HIGHLIGHTS
QEM/TCUP
STEM Leadership Institute – Cohort II Participants and QEM
Staff, August
2009
ABOUT THE QEM/TCUP STEM LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTE (LDI)
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) to offer a second TCUP STEM Leadership Development Institute (LDI) from August 2008-August 2009. The first TCUP LDI was offered August 2006-August 2007 (See Cohort I Highlights). The LDI is designed to support and encourage broader participation by Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian faculty and staff in leadership roles of STEM projects at their home institutions. Participants in the three-part Leadership Institute come from Native American, Alaska Native-serving, and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions that have multi-year projects supported through NSF/TCUP. An on-going Institute
support system includes mentoring, videoconferencing,
a Listserv, and a Web-based information exchange site.
Blackfeet
Community College
|
Fort
Berthold Community College
|
Little
Priest Tribal College
|
Sitting
Bull College
|
|---|---|---|---|
Chief Dull
Knife College |
Haskell
Indian Nations University
|
Navajo
Technical College
|
Turtle Mountain Community College |
College
of Menominee Nation
|
Lac
Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College
|
Oglala
Lakota College
|
University
of Alaska Fairbanks –
Interior Aleutians Campus |
Diné
College – Shiprock
|
Little
Big Horn College
|
Salish
Kootenai College
|
University
of Hawaii at Hilo
|
Graduates
of the QEM/TCUP Leadership Development Institute (Fellows)
are assuming leadership roles in the management
of new STEM Projects for their campuses; providing
enhanced support to the principal investigators and project directors
of current TCUP projects at their institutions; making presentations
at STEM-focused meetings across the country; continuing their
graduate degree pursuits; and assuming new leadership roles. Highlights of
the QEM/TCUP LDI Cohort II - Session Three are provided below.
LDI Cohort II Fellows receive their certificates.
Gabriel Begaye
receives his certificate. See
Website
-
Michael
Price, TCUP Project Director at Leech Lake Tribal College, faciliated
a session at the TCUP Leaders' Forum on April 22-23, 2008 Albuquerque,
NM and has made presentations related to Culture and Science at several national
meetings/workshops.
- Six LDI Leaders shared their Institute experiences as
part of a panel at the April 2007 NSF/TCUP PI and PD Forum in Albuquerque,
NM.
- Alphia Creapeau, Dev/Preparatory Program Director, College of Menominee Nation
- Wannetta Bennett, Sponsored Programs Officer, Turtle Mountain Community College
- Michael Price, TCUP Project Director and EthnoBiology Instructor, Leech Lake Tribal College
- Angeline Sells, Instructor and Coordinator of the Agricultural Program, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
For more information, please contact Shirley McBay,
Project Director,
via email (smmcbay1 @ qem.org) or telephone (202-659-1818).
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