NHS College Awarded Grant Funding to Create a Center of Engineering Excellence 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Jan. 19, 2021

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: 
Ann Vallie, PEEC Director
avalli@nhsc.edu
701.627.8021

 

NHS College Awarded Grant Funding to Create a Center of Engineering Excellence

New Town, ND -- Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College has been awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from the TCU Enterprise Advancement (TEA) Centers to establish the Full-Circle Center of Engineering Excellence.  The center will expand workforce training opportunities for NHS pre-engineering students and improve engineering services available to the MHA Nation. 

“NHS educates pre-engineering students and helps them transfer to four-year universities,” said President Twyla Baker, Ph.D. “Because of the Center of Excellence, the likelihood of these students getting bachelor’s degrees and returning to the reservation is much greater. 

“This will be a win-win,” Baker said. “Trained engineers can come back to the reservation for good jobs, and the MHA Nation will gain engineers who understand our culture and our unique needs”.

Pre-engineering students who participate in the Center of Excellence program will benefit from service-based learning opportunities, such as community engineering projects, job shadowing and internships. They will work with the Tribal Business Council, the Chairman’s Office of Science, Technology and Research; and the tribe’s senior engineer. Students and Centers of Excellence faculty will team up to complete community projects. 

NHSC enhances the quality of life and builds a strong, positive identity for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations or Three Affiliated Tribes. NHSC offers in-demand certificate programs and associate degrees as well as three bachelor’s degrees. The college offers high-quality cultural, academic and vocational education. NHSC provides encouragement and support to facilitate successful college careers. 

 

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NHSC Career and Technical Education Program Passes ND State Review 

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NEWS RELEASE 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  January 12, 2021

CONTACT:   Susan McNeil
Director of CTE Program
smcnei@nhsc.edu
701-240-8170 

NHSC Career and Technical Education program passes ND State review 

New Town, ND – Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (NHSC) recently underwent its state evaluation for Career and Technical Education (CTE) with the ND State office of Career and Technical Education. Every five years the ND Department of Career and Technical Education conducts an evaluation of NHSC’s CTE programs. From November 22-23, 2020, NHSC Career and Technical Education Department underwent a regular evaluation of the CTE programs, covering Business, Early Childhood Education, Marketing and Welding. The results stated that all CTE programs met State expectations with zero negative findings.

Career and Technical Education provides training that integrates academic knowledge with technical and occupational knowledge. Its purpose is to prepare students with an educational background for in demand careers. The ND Department of Career and Technical Education provides NHSC funding through the Federal Perkins V program.

NHSC offers both certificate and associate degrees that are considered as part of the CTE program.  Programs include: Business, Early Childhood Education, Marketing and Welding. NHSC’s CTE programs help meet the labor market needs for the Mandan, Arikara and Hidatsa tribes. NHSC’s CTE department is working on adding new and in demand programs to further enhance student career opportunities in the future.

Located in New Town, ND, NHSC enhances quality of life and builds a strong and positive identity for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations that make up the Three Affiliated Tribes. NHSC offers in-demand certificate programs and associate degrees as well as three bachelor’s degrees. NHSC is the only TCU that offers an Equine Studies and Sustainable Energy Technologies programs. NHSC also offers a world-renowned Native American Studies program that covers three Native languages.

NHSC students gain specialized training, get a jumpstart on their college careers or obtain bachelor’s degrees. The college offers high-quality cultural, academic and vocational education and provides encouragement and support to facilitate successful college careers.

The mission of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College is to provide quality cultural, academic, vocational education and services for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation.

 

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Janecek-Hartman College Scholar Named ROI Institute Award Winner

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                           FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Nov. 6, 2020                                                    Jennifer Janecek-Hartman, Ph.D. 

Vice President, Campus Services 

Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College 

jjanec@nhsc.edu

701.426.6399

Janecek-Hartman College Scholar Named ROI Institute Award Winner

NEW TOWN, N.D. --Jennifer Janecek-Hartman, Ph.D., vice president of Campus Services, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, recently received a Most Innovative Approach to ROI award from the ROI Institute. 

Janecek-Hartman was recognized for an outstanding application of the ROI Methodology® and honored for exceptional work in measurement, evaluation and analytics. Developed by the ROI Institute, the methodology assists professionals in improving programs and processes using return on investment (ROI) in non-traditional applications. 

Dr. Janecek-Hartman created an ROI evaluation model for tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) serving native communities. Her Indigenous assessment is based on local, traditional and tribal values that comprise the lens through which decisions are made at TCUs. Non-monetary ways of measuring ROI include institutional changes resulting from programming, institutional successes and the number of graduates and pre-and-post-graduation earnings.

Partners in Janecek-Hartman’s work include five North Dakota Association of Tribal Colleges presidents: Cynthia Lindquist, Ph.D. (Cankdeska Cikana Community College), Twyla Baker, Ph.D. (Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College), Laurel Vermillion, Ph.D. (Sitting Bull College), Kelli M. Hall, Ph.D. (Turtle Mountain Community College) and Leander McDonald, Ph.D. (United Tribes Technical College), as well as the American Indian College Fund and the Strada Foundation, which provided grant funding for the project.

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