News & Events

CIE colleagues co-author volume of Postsecondary Education for American Indian and Alaska Natives

Co-director of the Center for Indian Education, Prof. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, was a co-author for the current volume of Postsecondary Education for American Indian and Alaska Natives. Jessica A.Solyom, a graduate assistant with the Center, was also a co-author.

 

CIE co-director honored by the Associated Students of ASU

In April the Associated Students of ASU presented their 2011-2012 Centennial Professor Awards, given to recognize and encourage excellent teaching and leadership within and beyond the classroom. Named Centennial Professors were Aaron Golub (right), of the School of Sustainability and School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, along with Cynthia Leitz from the School of Social Work. Also honored were Bryan Brayboy, with the School of Social Transformation and co-director of the Center for Indian Education, Omayra Ortega of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, and Stephen Helms Tillery with the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering.

 

Capturing elders' knowledge of Mojave bird songs

The partnership between ASU's Center for Indian Education (CIE) and the Fort Mojave Tribe to document and revitalize the Mojave language — specifically recent efforts to do video and audio recordings and transcriptions of Mojave bird songs — was the subject of a March 22 feature story in "Research Matters," a publication of ASU's Office Of Knowledge and Enterprise Development.

Language preservation helps American Indian students stick with college

Michael Murphy was a self-described "troublemaker" who wasn't sure about leaving the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians' reseravtion for college.  He filled out only one application, to nearby California State University, San Marcos.

CIE partners with Fort Mojave Tribe on language recovery efforts

The partnership between ASU's Center for Indian Education and the Fort Mojave Tribe on language recovery, especially recent efforts to video and transcribe Mojave bird songs, was the subject of a March 22 feature story in Research Matters, a publication of ASU's Office of Knowledge and Enterprise Development. 

Improving college completion rates for Native students 

Bryan Brayboy, co-director of ASU's Center for Indian Education and associate professor of culture, society and education in the School of Social Transformation, commented on some of the challenges American Indian/Alaska Native students face on college campuses, in a story in the Sacramento Bee.
 

Brayboy discusses issues in indigenous education

Bryan Brayboy, co-director of ASU's Center for Indian Education, was interviewed on Seattle's KING-5 news about issues in indigenous education. Brayboy was in Seattle March 9 to present a lecture at the University of Washington on "The Role of Sovereignty and Self-Determination in the Education of Native Populations."



No Child Left Behind disappoints in Indian Country

American Indian and Alaska Native children have not made as much progress in reading and math under the No Child Left Behind Act, according to an article published by Indian Country Today. Co-director of ASU's Center for Indian Education Teresa McCarty offered comment to the story: "there is compelling empirical evidence that strong, additive, academically rigorous Native language and culture programs have salutary effects on both Native language and culture maintenance/revitalization and student achievement, as measured by multiple types of assessments."


CIE faculty contribute to International Multilingual Research Journal

Three School of Social Transformation faculty members in culture, society and education contributed substantially to the most recent issue of the International Multilingual Research Journal.
 

Brayboy discusses indigenous knowledge systems

The State Press featured a story about Professor Bryan Brayboy's March 28 presentation to students in ASU's Canon Leadership Program Scholar Series. Brayboy, who is Borderlands Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy...  

 

ASU brings elementary ed degree to Kayenta classrooms

For every 100 American Indian students who make it to ninth grade, one or two will earn a four-year college degree. Davina Spottled Elk is looking for Indigenous teachers-to-be who would like to change that statistic.    

 

Assistant professor position in Indigenous Education hired

The faculty of the School of Social Transformation and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University announce the appointment of Elizabeth Sumida Huaman as an assistant professor in Indigenous Education.  

 

$1.1M grant to Center for Indian Education addresses state shortage of Native teachers

 In Arizona there are more than 80,000 American Indian/Alaska Native children of school age—but only about 1,000 Native public school teachers. The School of Social Transformation's Center for Indian Education has been working on many...   

 

State Press story showcases Center for Indian Education language revitalization efforts

The Center for Indian Education's language revitalization efforts with Arizona's Native communities were the focus of a State Press story on November 30. The story showcases intergenerational work being done in partnership with the... 

 

Professors McCarty and Tobin mentor dissertation award winner and runner-up

The School of Social Transformation is proud to announce that professors Terri McCarty and Joe Tobin, both faculty members in the school's Culture, Society and Education research cluster, mentored the two top dissertations considered by the...  
 

Teresa McCarty awarded most prestigious honor in Educational Anthropology

Teresa McCarty, the Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies and professor of applied linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' School of Social Transformation, and co-director of the school's Center for...