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The empty campus at Tohono O’odham Community College reflects an ongoing dilemma facing not only tribal colleges, but colleges in general, where students are increasingly taking courses at a distance instead of studying together in person.
Michael Oltrogge, president of Nebraska Indian Community College, received national recognition for his dedication to tribal college students.
Other institutions could learn from their calculus.
Aerial view of Cankdeska Cikana Community College At Navajo Technical University, which has campuses on the sprawling Navajo reservation in New Mexico and Arizona, some students commute up to two hours each way to attend classes. Many of them lack reliable access to the internet. The pandemic has made attending the university even more challenging, but university leaders have come up with creative ways to engage students and keep them enrolled, even starting a Homework Express service through which campus shuttle bus drivers bring packets of homework to designated drop-off points for students...