Collaborative Research: PEEC: 2+2+2+Infinity: Pipeline for Tribal Pre-Engineering to Society (PTiPS)

这是TCUP学院之间的合作，Cankdeska Cikana社区学院社区学院，CCCC，Ft.Berthold社区学院、FBCC、TMCC海龟山社区学院、SBC坐牛学院和北达科他州立大学是11年多来积极参与保留地STEM教育的高潮，包括一名工程学教授在TMCC进行的长达一年的学术休假。它支持部落大学的愿景，即为保留地居民扩大生活选择，为部落决策提供更多的技术能力，改善基础设施，并在不损失文化遗产的情况下提供个人和部落进步的机会。对南洋理工大学来说，好处将包括文化多样性学生的更多参与，共同完成1862/1994年的土地赠款任务，改善师生之间的沟通和互动，以及扩大进入STEM专业的人才库。该提案的核心是部落高中、部落大学、主流大学和工程专业利益攸关方之间的互动，以促进部落学生的招募、教育和支持，以获得和磨练使他们能够进入工程专业或以其他方式为社区和国家做出贡献的技能。该提案将通过与教职员工、课程和支持职能/机构的互动来影响学生，从而实现这一愿景。所有这些都将以文化支持的方式完成。

This collaboration among TCUP colleges Cankdeska Cikana Community College Community College, CCCC, Ft. Berthold Community College, FBCC, Turtle Mountain Community College , TMCC, and Sitting Bull College, SBC, and North Dakota State University, NDSU, is the culmination of more than 11 years of active engagement in STEM education on the reservation, including a year-long academic sabbatical at TMCC by an engineering professor. It supports a tribal college vision of expanded life-choices for reservation residents that could provide more technical competency for tribal decision-making, infrastructure improvement and the opportunity for personal and tribal advancement without loss of cultural heritage. For NDSU the benefits would include expanded participation of culturally diverse students, shared fulfillment of the 1862/1994 land grant mission, improved faculty-student communication and interaction and expansion of the talent pool entering STEM professions. The heart of the proposal is the interaction of tribal high school, tribal college, mainstream University and engineering profession stakeholders to facilitate the recruitment, education and support of tribal students to acquire and hone the skills that will allow them to enter the engineering profession or contribute in some other fashion to their communities and the nation. The proposal will accomplish this vision by impacting students through interactions with faculty/ staff, curriculum and supporting functions/agencies. All of this will be accomplished in a culturally supportive fashion.