The university is honoring the culture and contributions of the Indigenous community during Native American Heritage Month. While the celebration runs through November, the university works year round with Native American communities to provide new opportunities to Indigenous faculty, students, entrepreneurs and others.

Native FORGE, a University of Arizona program focused on supporting entrepreneurs in Arizona's tribal communities, has selected five entrepreneurs from the San Carlos Apache Tribe for the program's inaugural cohort.

Being named to the cohort means the five entrepreneurs – whose businesses include convenience stores, an events equipment rental service and a quilting company – will receive mentorship and technical assistance over the next year to help grow their businesses.

The University of Arizona Department of English and Native American Initiatives have partnered to offer a section of ENGL 102 that will focus on Indigenous issues. The course will be taught by Lecturer Steve Pelletier (Diné). Native American students and others interested in Indigenous literature are encouraged to enroll in this course. Please share the news with first-year students or those looking to take ENGL 102.

The WINGS Women of Discovery Awards were established in 2003 to recognize extraordinary women making significant contributions to world knowledge and science through exploration.

Join WINGS WORLD QUEST INC on October 19, 2022, for a truly unforgettable evening honoring five new Women of Discovery and bold explorers, their innovative ideas and their unceasing quest to build a better world for us all.

A new University of Arizona microcampus will serve the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Tucson, giving tribal members what leaders called a "homecourt advantage" to complete college degrees and certificates and access university technology, research and tutoring services.

The University of Arizona has received a five-year, $500,000 matching grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to establish a new center to support economic growth in tribal communities in Arizona.

Native FORGE will provide and facilitate high-quality entrepreneurship development and support services to underserved communities in Tucson and the 22 federally recognized Native American nations in Arizona. 

The Arizona Area Health Education Center (AzAHEC) Program at the UArizona Health Sciences recently selected the Arizona Advisory Council on Indian Health Care to develop a new American Indian Health AHEC Regional Center dedicated to developing health profession education initiatives and expanding access to health care for tribal communities in Arizona.

The University of Arizona Health Sciences-based Arizona Area Health Education Center Program, also known as AzAHEC, will work with the Arizona Advisory Council on Indian Health Care to develop the new American Indian Health AHEC Regional Center. The center, dubbed AIH-AHEC, will be dedicated to developing health profession education initiatives and expanding access to health care for tribal communities in Arizona.

This year’s sessions will explain why and how race and CRT are being deployed in current legislative assaults on honest and inclusive education and what advocates need to understand about the disinformation campaign. We will also analyze why the particular assaults on CRT and racial justice education land differently to even those whom we count as our allies. By carefully analyzing the series of distortions and misdirections about CRT, we hope to educate constituents about what CRT is and what it was before right-wing operatives distorted and defamed it.

A University of Arizona College of Education program that provides mentorship and educational resources to Arizona's Indigenous communities will extend its reach thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the Arizona Department of Education.