College & University Programs & Services

Reports on the creation of four spots at the medical school for Australian Aboriginal students at Newcastle University in New South Wales.

Author discusses teaching students to perceive ideas from a different perspective in an introductory American Thought and Language class at Michigan State University.

Book review of: Success Academy by Maryjo Benton Lee Peter Lang.

Includes an assessment of the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP).

Education Thesis (MA) -- Lakehead University, 2020

Examines factors affecting academic success and initiatives needed to support students as they pursue further education.

Study examined learning experiences of students in mathematics and science programs, barriers to continuing education in those fields, and existing supports for transition process. Contains stories of four individuals.

Nursing Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Arizona, 2006.

Provides overview of education, description of add-on, First Nations control, and partnership approaches, case studies of specific institutions, and interviews with practitioners. Case studies: First Nations Partnership Program; Nunavut Sivuniksavut Program; first Nations House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, Malaspina University College; Saanich Adult Education Center.

Study examines the development of the Northern Bachelor of Nursing Program through a partnership with the University of Manitoba from its inception in 1982 to its closure in 1994.

Chronicling the first three graduates of the First Nations Graduate Education Program at the University of Alberta.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2015.

The authors, both antiracist scholars, describe their struggles to maintain their identities while working within the academy.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2003

Provides glossary of terminology, institutions, and teacher education programs in British Columbia.

Handbook was produced by the University of Victoria to facilitate the move from an Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association Institute to a post-secondary institution in a larger urban center.

Discussion of program which seeks to deal with problems such as broadening students western cultural knowledge to improve language usage and encouraging students to express their personal feelings verbally.

Establishes how many medical schools are teaching courses on cultural issues and examines format, content and timing of courses.

Looks at colleges in partnership with the American Indian Programs Branch of the Federal Head Start Bureau that offer early childhood education degree programs.

Author comments on material presented to students in his Indian law course.

Describes the issues and methods that were used by a group of non-conforming youth to enable them to have a successful entrance into university.

Explores the instructor attitudes and teaching methods which students have responded to favourably, contributing to their academic success.

Comparative study of post-secondary institutions in the two provinces yielded seven categories of issues related to improving education outcomes.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (Ed.D.)--Northern Arizona University, 2010.

Looks at life histories of Maliseet and Micmac university students and Bolivian Aymara, Quechua, and Uru women to help students realize their own identity and potential.

Comments on American Indian and Alaska Native educator training programs.

Looks at the Niitsitapi Education Program initiated by the Red Crow Community College in Cardston, Alberta.

Human Development, Learning and Culture Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2012.

[Education and Social Work] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sydney, 2014.

Discusses whether Canada has a distinctive national tradition in anthropology.

Looks at STEM (Western science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) trained faculty partnering with Elders to learn about natural health products (NHP) at the First Nations University of Canada.

Overview of the English course, Contemporary Native American Literature taught at West Chester University and an analysis of Solar Storms which deals with the building of James Bay-Great Whale hydroelectric project in Quebec.

Discussion of health professional training programs and the Universities of Manitoba and Alberta.

Looks at the development of a training courses by the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association (NACCA), Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Canada (AFOA) and the Council for the Development Officers (CANDO).

Describes program to train Native American community members in Minnesota to be support personnel in "paraprofessional" roles.

Brief description of the lay advocate /paralegal program and the problems it addresses in the administration of justice in tribal courts.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.

Author discusses educational experience as an online graduate student.

Findings from national study, Evaluating the Impact of a National Support Network for Students, Interns and Post-Doctoral Researchers in Aboriginal Health. looks at the research capacity building and influence of career results in Canadian universities over a ten-year period.

Results of literature review and interviews conducted with Coastal Corridor Consortium partners in order to identify specific programs which enhance student success.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Victoria, 2009.

Discusses approaches taken by the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan to create and implement a program aimed at building a local Indigenous health professional workforce.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.

Overall goals of research project were to increase student success, document best practices, and identify factors which facilitate or hinder a smooth transition. Used interviews and focus groups involving 80 current and former students.

Author describe the experience of teaching introductory Native American Studies courses and the complacency and ignorance demonstrated by many of the non-Indigenous students towards the subject.

Educational Leadership Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Montana, 2011.

Looks at how students acquire skills to satisfy writing expectations and get their voices heard as writers.