Self-Relevant Representations Impact School Belonging for Underrepresented Native American Students

Purpose: This paper presents a qualitative evaluation of a graduate-level internship for Latino and Native American library science students or students who are interested in serving those populations.Methods: The authors analyzed semi-structured interviews with thirteen internship program graduates or participants.Results: The analysis suggests that the program increased participants’ interest in health sciences librarianship and led to improved career opportunities, both in health sciences libraries and other libraries with health information programming. It also highlights specific factors that are likely to contribute to the strength of career pipeline programs aiming to bring Latino and Native American students and students who are interested in serving those communities into health librarianship.Conclusions: Exposing graduate-level interns to a broad range of health sciences librarianship tasks, including outreach to Latino and Native American communities and formal mentorship, is likely to maximize interns’ interests in both health sciences librarianship and service to these communities.

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A Middle School Program To Attract Native American Students To Stem Higher Education

10.18260/1-2--15402 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Wei Lin ◽

G. Padmanabhan

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Middle School ◽

Native American ◽

School Program ◽

Native American Students ◽

American Students

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Boarding School Poetry, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and the Demands of Americanization Poetics and Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813056043.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 99-143

Author(s):

Cristina Stanciu

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Native American ◽

Original Poetry ◽

School Personnel ◽

Boarding School ◽

Native American Students ◽

American Students ◽

Carlisle Indian Industrial School ◽

Industrial School

This chapter focuses on the under-examined corpus of Carlisle poetry, viewing it as a vital archive for theorizing the role of the American Indian intellectual tradition in negotiating Americanization discourses at the turn of the twentieth century. Materials published in newspapers and magazines at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania (1879–1918) include “Carlisle poetry,” which encompasses original poetry by Native American students, reprints of poems by Indian authors, poems by school personnel, and poems by well-known American authors. This poetry, along with the letters and articles published in Carlisle newspapers and magazines, is complicit with the ideological underpinnings of the institution’s ambitious goals of “making” Indian students into Americans, even as elements of this literature critique the Americanization that Carlisle boarding school demanded of its students.

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What Is It Like to Be a Minority Student at a Predominantly White Institution?

Behavioral-Based Interventions for Improving Public Policies - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2731-3.ch011 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 191-209

Author(s):

Lucila T. Rudge

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Predominantly White ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

Campus Climate ◽

Minority Student ◽

University Campus ◽

Predominantly White Institution ◽

Native American Students ◽

American Students ◽

White Institution

This study examines the differences in experiences and perceptions of campus climate of 38 minority students enrolled in a predominantly white institution (PWI). African American students, Native American students, gender and sexually diverse students, students with disabilities, Latinx students, and international students participated in the study. About half of the participants reported negative experiences with racism and discrimination on campus whereas the other half reported the opposite. Attribution to discrimination theory informed the theoretical framework of this study and the data analysis. Policy recommendations to improve the climate of diversity on university campus are provided.

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