This is my newest book. I put the together with a number of colleagues from Navajo Tech where I was the Provost up until my retirement. Navajo Tech and the 38 tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are in serious trouble from the budget cuts in Washington DC. Several colleges, like the iconic and irreplaceable Institute of American Indian Arts, is in danger of closing. IAIA has had its budget totally eliminated in the House of Representative budget now going to Congress. The TCUs are one of the greatest innovations in higher education during the late 20th and early 21st century. Losing them is unthinkable.
What I wanted to achieve with this book is to use Navajo Tech as a lens to illustrate just how valuable the tribal colleges are on several levels: To the students they serve, the Native Nations that chartered them, and the United States as whole. The science and technology at Navajo Tech is world class, and its defense of culture and language has led to the creation of the first PhD program by a TCU. It is a miracle that needs to be strengthened as it tackles the grand challenge of generational poverty and provides both an educational and economic development model about how poverty in any community can be reversed.
I am hoping those who buy this book, encourage their library to purchase it so they can read it, or simply get the chance to read it will write their Congresspeople, Senators or Representatives, and express just how much the TCUs deserve support. This book will help you, I hope, not only learn about Navajo Tech but also the Navajo people and the strength of who they are as a people.
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