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Native American House Moves to Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations
June 9, 2009
We are pleased to announce that Native American House (NAH), currently part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will become a unit of the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs effective July 1, 2009. This change is part of ongoing efforts to provide professional student support programs to Native American students and to more effectively educate everyone on campus about Native American experiences and issues.
Dr. Belinda De La Rosa, Special Assistant to the Dean of Students for Assessment, will serve as interim director of Native American House during the search for a permanent director, which will begin this summer. Current NAH director Professor Robert Warrior will step down as director of NAH on June 30, but will continue as director of American Indian Studies (AIS).
Professor Warrior has agreed to chair the search committee for a new director of NAH and will also chair the advisory committee that will assist NAH leadership in this transition. The new director will report to Anna Gonzalez, Associate Vice Chancellor/Director of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations.
Native American House was founded in 2002 as a unit in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in response to the need for the University to provide academic programs related to American Indian people and issues. In 2005, NAH developed a student support program, including a staff position responsible for bringing in speakers, peer mentoring, and recruitment and retention programs. In 2005, American Indian Studies was created as part of NAH. AIS, which now has six core faculty members, offers a wide variety of courses, an undergraduate minor, and in the fall will begin offering a graduate minor.
In fall of 2008, the AIS faculty recommended to the College of LAS that Native American House be reorganized as a unit in Student Affairs. That recommendation called for a professionalizing of the NAH student support program in a structure more conducive to meeting the needs of students. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs C. Renee Romano has enthusiastically agreed to this move.
The College of LAS and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs look forward to working together in this transition.
C. Renee Romano
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Ruth V. Watkins
Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
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