On Wednesday, the House Community Development, Housing and Tribal Affairs Committee held a work session to discuss tribal graduate and leadership programs within the higher education sector.
WSU Tribal Liaison and Special Assistant to the Provost Barbara Aston provided the committee a presentation on WSU’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with nine land based indigenous Native American tribes of the Northwest. The MOU established a Native American Advisory Board to the President of WSU to strengthen the partnership between WSU and the signatory tribes.
Aston also discussed WSU’s new Tribal Nation Building Leadership Program developed in response to recommendations from the Advisory Board. The program is being designed with skills and knowledge contextualized within a framework of tribal principles and values.
You can view Aston’s presentation to the committee below.