Northern Arizona University (NAU) announced a new partnership with San Carlos Apache College (SCAC) Tuesday, a move meant to further the opportunities both institutions offer Native American students.
The two signed on Monday, April 15, an Intergovernmental Agreement, which an announcement said would “strengthen collaborative opportunities at all levels between the two institutions, including for academic programming, faculty collaboration, student success initiatives, and transfer and graduate education pathways.”
It noted a similar agreement started in 2016 between NAU and Diné College. The university also began the Arizona Attainment Alliance in 2022, in partnership with community colleges statewide.
“This historic agreement between NAU and SCAC is a powerful vehicle for our two institutions to collaborate successfully, and in truly innovative and culturally respectful ways, in providing the best educational opportunities possible for the Native students and communities we serve,” said SCAC President Martin Ahumada in the announcement on the partnership. “I am looking forward to the continued pursuit and fulfillment of our agreement’s noble purpose and unlimited potential to help forge a bright future for our Native students.”
Marcus Macktima is an assistant professor in NAU’s Department of History, and he is the first and only member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe to earn a Ph.D. in history. According to the announcement, the partnership is meant to encourage opportunities such as Macktima’s work teaching Apache and other Native history courses at both NAU and SCAC.
“This partnership opens up the possibility for the construction of new educational pathways between SCAC and NAU,” Macktima said. “As a faculty member at both institutions, I’ve witnessed the highest level of student engagement in academic studies at SCAC, and the possibility for that resiliency to be continued and fostered at NAU. I am hopeful that I might be able to assist in developing program tracks that bring students from SCAC to NAU and perhaps graduate them to become historians who wish to preserve our peoples’ history.”
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