Commentary on the Recruitment and Retention of American Indian and Alaska Native Students in California Postsecondary Education Institutions

In this commentary, we engage and summarize existing practices for recruiting and retaining American Indian and Alaska Native students in postsecondary institutions in California. This commentary is the output of a two-day symposium, “Lighting a Path Forward: UC Land Grants, Public Memory, and Tovaangar,” held at the University of California, Los Angeles in October of 2019. The symposium brought together campus and community leaders from across California to discuss the past, present and future of American Indian and Alaska Native student and community concerns, and provide intervening policy and practice recommendations. Participants included both American Indian and Alaska Native and non-Native individuals with a wealth of professional experience and employment in American Indian and Alaska Native education, from the California Community College, California State University and University of California systems. We jointly created a table of critical interventions in education, the justification for this, and potential strategies for implementation. Here, we summarize the discussion of participants from the American Indian and Alaska Native student retention and recruitment workshop to document recommends interventions for campus practitioners and leaders to serve as a guiding document for system and campus advocacy

Community college · Ethnology · Higher education · Indian country · Library science · Medical education · Native american · Native American studies · Political science · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Diverse Educational Innovations Studies · Gender Studies · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Public Administration · Service-Learning and Community Engagement · Gerontology

• Postsecondary Research and Recommendations for Federal Datasets With American Indians and Alaska Natives

  Jameson D Lopez, Jameson D Lopez Jameson D Lopez et al.•Journal of American Indian…•2018

  Add to list

• The Act of Claiming Higher Education as Indigenous Space

  Sweeney Windchief, Darold H Joseph•Diaspora Indigenous and Minority…•2015

  Add to list

• What Am I Doing to Be a Good Ancestor?”

  Open Access•Nicole Alia Salis Reyes•American Educational Research…•2019

  Add to list