Woksape (Knowledge)

愿景与目标：奥格拉拉·拉科塔学院将为电子商务教育创造机会，这是目前部落或主流教育机构所没有的。项目：奥格拉拉·拉科塔学院和辛格·格莱斯卡大学将开发和管理环境科学和软件工程学士学位课程，以及工程预科科学副学士学位。学位课程将通过远程学习模式扩展到夏延河、斯坦罗克和西塞顿瓦佩顿社区学院。这些部落机构被统称为“奥亚特联盟”，是由部落特许的，服务于不同的美洲印第安人——这一群体在SEM教育中代表性明显不足。开发的模式可以很容易地在其他26个部落学院复制。管理：核心管理将包括一名首席研究员，一名SEM课程专家/联合首席研究员，以及Sinte Gleska网站协调员和副总裁。2至5年后，来自其他三所联盟成员学院的现场协调员将加入该团队。首席研究员将直接向OLC主席报告。特色：奥格拉拉·拉科塔学院和辛格·格莱斯卡大学是唯一获得认可的研究生和四年制学位授予的部落机构，最近获得了赠地学院的地位。奥亚特联盟是独一无二的，因为部落学院之间以及与其他大学和行业的紧密合作。这是部落学院经济管理项目开发的第一个倡议，具有潜在的不同寻常的影响，因为部落学院是社区和国家的建设者，其特殊使命是帮助作为主权国家的部落变得更加自给自足。奥亚特部落学院是独一无二的，因为他们招收的学生是普通大学所不能充分服务的。这些学生生活和工作在地理上孤立的保留地，拥有主流机构不欣赏的文化价值观，或者承担着广泛的家庭责任。美国国家科学基金会卓越示范机构倡议为奥亚特部落学院及其26个部落学院提供了一个独特的机会，让他们接触到代表性不足的美国印第安学生，并为部落国家带来学术和技术专业知识，这可能会导致部落灭绝或自给自足。

9550533 Gagnon VISION AND GOALS: Oglala Lakota College will create an opportunity for SEM education which does not now exist through Tribal or mainstream educational institutions. PROGRAMS: Oglala Lakota College and Sinte Gleska University will develop and administer bachelor's degree programs in Environmental Science and Software Engineering, and a pre-engineering associate degree in science. The degree programs will be extended to Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, and Sisseton Wahpeton Community Colleges through a distance learning mode. These Tribal Institutions, collectively called the Oyate Consortium, are Tribally chartered, and serve distinct American Indian populations - a population which is significantly underrepresented in SEM education. The model developed can be easily replicated in the other twenty-six Tribal Colleges. MANAGEMENT: Core management will consist of a Principal Investigator, a SEM Curriculum Specialist/Co-Principal Investigator, and the Sinte Gleska Site Coordinator and Vice President. In years two to five site coordinators from the three other Consortium member colleges will join the team. The Principal Investigator will report directly to the OLC President. SPECIAL FEATURES: Oglala Lakota College and Sinte Gleska University, the only accredited graduate and four-year degree granting Tribal Institutions, have recently gained land-grant college status. The Oyate Consortium is unique because of strong collaboration among Tribal colleges and with other universities and industry. This initiative, the first ever for Tribal College SEM program development, has potential for unusual impact because Tribal Colleges are community and nation-builders with the special mission of helping tribes which are sovereign nations, become more self-sufficient. Oyate Tribal Colleges are unique because they reach students who are not served adequately by ordinary universities. These are students who live and work on geographically isolated reserva tions, hold cultural values not appreciated by mainstream institutions, or who have extensive family responsibilities. The NSF Model Institutions for Excellence initiative offers a unique opportunity for the Oyate Tribal Colleges and their twenty-six Tribal counterparts to reach the underrepresented American Indian students, and to bring academic and technical expertise to Tribal nations in ways that may make the difference between extinction and tribal self-sufficiency.