| 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
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 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.
Financial
aid and scholarships
This Graduate College web site explains how
to apply for fellowships, scholarships, and assistantships.
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