Resources for American Indian & Native Alaskan Students
The University has an active American Indian Student Association, which hosts regular potluck dinners at the Latino/Native American Cultural Center. Our enrollment includes students from more than 30 tribes.
Support networks
- Latino/Native American Cultural Center—An on-campus, home-like atmosphere for studying, socializing, and student meetings.
- Latino and Native American Alumni Alliance (LaNA3)—This group's goal is to further the enrollment and advancement of Latino and Native American students, staff, and faculty at The University of Iowa.
- UI Student Organizations—There are more than 400 student organizations at Iowa. Those of interest to Native American students may include the American Indian Science & Engineering Society and the American Indian Student Association.
Curriculum
These programs offer courses that may be of particular interest to Native American students.
- American Indian & Native Studies Certificate Program—Course work for this program is drawn from anthropology, history, law, literature, and other disciplines.
- International Studies Program—This program is for students who want to study the intersections of culture, politics, economics, and language in the world.
- Women's Studies Department—This interdisciplinary program brings the perspective of gender, along with a consideration of class, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and physical ability to bear on a host of problems and issues of current concern.
Education and advocacy
- Office of Equal Opportunity & Diversity—This University office supports and enhances the University's commitment to recruiting and retaining a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students.
- Office of Cultural Affairs & Diversity Initiatives, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, 228 CMAB, medicine-divesity@uiowa.edu or 319/384-2952.
- Office of Graduate Ethnic Inclusion—This office in the UI Graduate College aims to build a sustainable practice of inclusion to attract and keep top underrepresented scholars in UI graduate programs. This office also supports underrepresented students interested in pursuing graduate study at Iowa.
- Alliance for Graduate Education & the Professoriate—This organization's goal is to significantly increase the number of PhDs awarded to underrepresented U.S. minority students in engineering and the mathematical, physical, and life sciences.
- Ethnic Inclusion Effort for Iowa Engineering—The goal of this UI College of Engineering program is to increase underrepresented minorities in engineering and to promote a welcoming and inclusive environment for minorities at Iowa.
- The Office of Cultural Affairs & Diversity Initiatives
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