You Belong: Find your future and community at the University of Arizona, a top-tier university with highly acclaimed support programs for Native American students!

The University of Arizona Agnese Nelms Haury Program for Environment and Social Justice from Tucson, Arizona is proud to once again be an Academic Eagle Sponsor, and we are looking forward to speaking with you about the many University of Arizona STEM and other programs at the upcoming 2024 AISES National Conference in San Antonio, Texas! 

Visit us at Booth 1103 and speak to Native American science students, program leaders and advisors to learn why and how the University of Arizona is not only the premier research institution but one of the top three land grant universities with the most support and programs for Native students and local tribes, and how you too can become and succeed as a Wildcat!

The University of Arizona has the highest number of graduating Indigenous students in STEM, and is a top doctorate-granting institution for Native American students. The University assists with financial aid programming such as Arizona Native Scholars Grant, supports students through Native FEWS Alliance, Native Voices in STEM, Natives Who Code and Indigenous Correspondents programming, participates in the Sloan Indigenous Scholarship Program, and has recently opened a micro campus on the Pasqua Yaqui reservation. The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law’s Land-Grant History Project documents the story of the University's land-grant status and the designation's impact on Indigenous peoples in Arizona, and the University recently published a new Tribal Consultation Policy which guides University personnel in collaborating with tribes in ways that respect tribes' cultures, traditions, sovereignty and laws. The university also has offices dedicated to tribal relations (NAATE), support for Native students, faculty and staff (NAI) and research support on tribal Nations (NPTAO). Some other notable programs and departments include U of A AISES chapter, Indigenous Resilience Center, Native American Student Affairs, Native Nations Institute, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, Indigenous Teacher Education Program, Native SOAR and Tribal Extension Offices program. The University offers over 150 majors and graduate programs in more than 150 disciplines and hundreds of programs of study, both on campus and online. Some of the STEM academic programs currently most pursued by Native American students are medicine, engineering, biology, and environmental sciences. In the academic year of 2024/25, we will have the largest number of total Indigenous students enrolled ever, and we are committed to continuing to grow this community and support systems for it. 

Joining us at our booth 1103 at the AISES Conference this fall are University of Arizona Admissions, Graduate College, College of Medicine, Environmental Science, Optical Sciences, Biosphere 2, and Natives Who Code. Also represented will be Native American Student Affairs and Native SOAR. Our booth will also feature a “Dear Body of Water” project which invites digital and mailed postcard-sized love letters to recognize beloved rivers, seas, and other bodies of water to tend to our planet's lifeblood and communal interrelations as kin. Beautiful postcards will be available to conference attendees. Indigenous Resilience Center and Native FEWS Alliance will be exhibiting just round around the corner from us at booth number 1306.

The Haury Program, which was established in 2014, supports Native American and Indigenous Resilience through investing in and supporting Native American faculty, staff, programs and leaders at the University of Arizona, and in tribal communities, strategically leveraging funds and building partnerships, and uplifting Native voices and allies. 

At the 2024 AISES National Conference we invite you to Booth 1103 to discover education that shapes itself around you – your goals, your wholistic identity, and your best future possible – and community where you belong.