College Fund Research
Learn. Grow. Educate.
About Our Research
The American Indian College Fund researches the impact of our scholarships and programs on students and Native communities and provides avenues for collecting and disseminating research for those interested in Native higher education.
Research – What We Do
Learn more about The College Fund’s Research.
Application for Direct TCU Faculty Emergency Aid Grants
Tribal College and University Research Journals
Mellon Tribal College Research Journals
Faculty Development
Research Repository
Support Our Research
Application for Direct TCU Faculty Emergency Aid Grants
The American Indian College Fund created an emergency fund to provide direct support for TCU faculty impacted by the rapid transition to distance delivery due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This emergency fund is designed to quickly provide much-needed support to tribal college faculty (full-time and part-time) to transition to remote teaching.
Tribal College and University Research Journals
The College Fund initiated the new Tribal College and University Research Journal in 2016 to provide current TCU faculty conducting research with an avenue to publish research. The journal publishes articles in a variety of fields including science, program development, and student success, among others.
Volume 4,
October 2019
Volume 3,
October 2018
Volume 2,
October 2018
Volume 1, Issue 2,
June 2017
Volume 1, Issue 1,
October 2016
Mellon Tribal College Research Journals
In 2013 and 2015, respectively, the College Fund published two volumes of research by current and former Tribal College and University (TCU) faculty recipients of Mellon Foundation fellowships through the College Fund.
Volume 2, 2015
Volume 1, 2013
Faculty Development
The American Indian College Fund researches the impact of our scholarships and programs on students and Native communities and provides avenues for collecting and disseminating research for those interested in Native higher education.
Research Repository
Organizational Research
The American Indian College Fund is using research to develop a greater understanding of ideas, concepts, and topics instrumental to the work we do with tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), Native communities, AI/AN students, and faculty. We designed this repository to provide researchers and the general public access to our and others’ research supporting AI/AN student success. This research repository includes literature reviews, annotated bibliographies, and fact sheets on four categories of research: student impact, faculty impact, institutional impact, and community impact. All dissertations, literature reviews, fact sheets, and annotated bibliographies are categorized in at least one of these categories. The portal also provides access to dissertations produced by faculty fellows supported by our Mellon Career Enhancement Fellowship program and historical documents the College Fund has produced over the years.
Outside Research
Also included in the portal are research and white papers by other organizations conducting research that benefit and are pertinent to the AI/AN higher education community and student success. Organizations such as the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) , National College Access Network (NCAN), Penn Graduate School of Education’s Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CSMI), Gallup, Purdue University, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), among others, provide valuable insight to the College Fund’s work. These linked articles and reports are not the work of the College Fund and sole copyright belongs to each organization. We provide links to these works because they allow us to situate our work in a national context.
