Environmental Program Capacity Building Summit for Tribal and Pacific Rim Faculty: Report

Report on the results of an NSF-funded faculty development workshop to promote collaboration to strengthen education programs at tribal colleges by providing program improvement technical assistance.


Provides professional development presentations for indigenous college instructors, including:

• STEM resources
• Water quality curriculum resources
• Lessons learned and preferred learning styles for Native American students
• Benefits of DACUM process
• Case studies of developing STEM programs and workforce development at Tribal and Pacific Rim institutions
• Recruitment, training, placement, and retention program efforts
• Best practices in environmental and energy technology education at Tribal Colleges

Enhances individual instructors’ program improvement efforts

Results of mini-DACUM to identify:

• Emerging topics in environmental health and safety, and natural resources fields,
• Curriculum gaps in the identified emerging topics and address possible solutions, and
• Overarching theme for potential Indigenous Fellows Institutes

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Author(s):
National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education, ME

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