Programs
Native UW Scholars Program (NUW Scholars)
Make life long connections with other Native and Indigenous students
The Native University of Washington (NUW) Scholars is a cohort-based bridge program for incoming transfer and first year Native students to the University of Washington to help foster a community of Indigenous Huskies.
Core Elements:
- Hosts weeklong orientation with presentations, workshops, community building, and field trips
- Creates peer mentoring opportunities for Native students
- Offers year-long (credit optional), weekly gathering space for students to build community throughout the year
- Sets students up for success as they navigate their first year at UW
Funding Supports:
- Food for meetings
- Housing during orientation week
- Speaker honorarium
- Transportation and travel expenses
Native Pathways Program
The Native Pathways Program is a partnership-building initiative with two-year community colleges to create culturally relevant and timely American Indian Studies coursework, increase Native student enrollments, and to facilitate easier transfer pathways to UW.
Core Elements:
- Deepens connections between UW and two-year colleges through cross-mentorship opportunities
- Hosts an annual American Indian and Indigenous Studies Higher Education Pedagogy Summit
- Facilitates syllabus review workshops and feedback for two-year college faculty
Funding Supports:
- Course development grants for AIS transfer classes
- Honorariums for the Pedagogy Summit
- Fellowship salary and benefits
Native Knowledge-in-Residence Program
The Native Knowledge-in-Residence Program Coordinator supports Indigenous knowledge initiatives across our campuses. Each coordinator also develops their own unique programming based on their background, knowledge and experience. These programs create space for forms of knowing that have long histories in the lands where the UW exists, but have not been part of extant curricular offerings.
Core Elements:
- Weekly knowledge tables, workshops and/or classes
- Supervising research projects with archives, libraries, museums, and tribes
- Curriculum building: course resources for teaching Indigenous knowledge
- Consultations, guest lectures and workshops with other programs
- Building partnerships with local high schools and Indian Education programs to create pathways to the UW
Funding Supports:
- Salary and benefits for a part-time Native Knowledge-in-Residence Coordinator position
- Tools and materials for workshops
Knowledge Family Experiences
The Knowledge Family Experience is a year-long cohort of undergraduate students who work closely with faculty, professional staff, Indigenous community members, post-doc and/or graduate student Knowledge Facilitators to conduct collaborative and community-based projects in American Indian and Indigenous Studies.
Core Elements:
- Supports faculty, staff and students in their research/career development
- Connects undergraduate students with mentors who work with Native knowledge
- Provides leadership opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students
- Reflects an intergenerational approach to cohort-building and learning
- Facilitates learning through Indigenous material culture, knowledge systems, archives, and/or Elders
Funding Supports:
- Stipends for peer mentors
- Speaker honorarium and other research needs
Summer Institute in Indigenous Humanities (SIIH)
SIIH provides training and support to undergraduate students and community partners undertaking humanities research in American Indian and Indigenous Studies over three weeks in the summer.
Core Elements:
- Introduces students to Indigenous research methodologies
- Provides examples of Indigenous approaches to archives, ethnography, and field work.
- Facilitates students’ independent research
- Provides research presentation experience
Funding Supports:
- Co-facilitator summer salary
- Research stipends for undergraduate students
- Speaker honorarium and other research costs
- Food and travel
Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities (SIGI)
SIGI is a collaboration among scholars from the University of Washington, British Columbia, California, Hawai’i, Minnesota, Oregon and Utah during a week-long intensive graduate seminar focused on professionalization in Indigenous studies.
Core Elements:
- Offers graduate students mentorship in Indigenous studies
- Supports graduate students to create ways to make their interdisciplinary and Indigenous research legible to conventional academic disciplines
- Creates multi-institution network for Indigenous graduate students
Funding Supports:
- Faculty and graduate student summer salary
- Research stipends
- Food and lodging
American Indian & Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Scholars Program
A monthly workshop, with the goal of supporting scholars to complete research projects that are key to their professional advancement.
In support of the professional development of graduate students and faculty (tenure-track, non-tenure-track, research track, etc.), we propose the creation of a year-long research and writing seminar. The primary goal of this seminar is to provide intellectual and financial resources that support scholars’ completion of research projects (e.g., dissertations, articles, book-length monographs, poetry, and other research products).
AIIS Scholars will be selected annually to participate in monthly seminars that showcase their works-in-progress, but the monthly workshops will be open to the entire campus community. Faculty scholars will receive one course buy-out or equivalent summer salary, and graduate scholars will be supported with research stipends (up to $10,000), designed to support their proposed research initiatives.
