Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center

Indigenous Student Success in Higher Education

How can we better support Indigenous students in higher education? Continuing our series on moving beyond land acknowledgments, in this episode we discuss how higher education institutions can promote Indigenous student success. Our panelists discuss the barriers to success Indigenous students in higher education face, how we can go about decolonizing the concept of student success, and what steps institutions of higher education can take today to move towards transformational change. Moderator: Pearl Brower, President/CEO of Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation Panelists: JUSTINA WILHELM, President, Iḷisaġvik College; CHARLENE STERN, Vice Chancellor for Rural, Community and Native Education University of Alaska Fairbanks; KAL BACON, Alaska Native, Indigenous, and Rural Outreach Program Coordinator, Department of Residence Life, University of Alaska, Anchorage. Co-Producers: Nitesh Singh & Libby Roderick, DDNRC Board of Directors Co-Sponsor: University of Alaska Anchorage Difficult Dialogues Initiative Published: November 13, 2022 To learn more about the Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center and how we can support your efforts to create transformative change in higher education through equity and justice focused dialogues, visit our website at www.difficicultdialouges.org. Copyright 2022, Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center, Inc.

Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education

Building on our recent webinar on moving beyond land acknowledgments [https://youtu.be/GzVTXF_3WDI], in this episode we speak to Ilarion Merculieff and Libby Roderick, co-editors of Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education [https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/institutional-effectiveness/departments/center-for-advancing-faculty-excellence/difficult-dialogues/handbooks/stop-talking/]. The conversation covers what it means, from the authors’ perspectives, to truly indigenize higher education. What it means to do that work while recognizing the historical and contemporary power dynamics between institutions of higher education and native communities. And how we can use intentional dialogue to move towards transformational change. Panelists: Ilarion Merculieff and Libby Roderick Host: Nitesh Singh, DDNRC Board Member  Published: April 11, 2022 To learn more about the Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center and how we can support your efforts to create transformative change in higher education through equity and justice focused dialogues, visit our website at www.difficicultdialouges.org.  Copyright 2022, Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center, Inc.