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City Newspaper Article Addresses Needs of Native American Students


The article “InterNATIONAL Students” (https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/international-students/Content?oid=2421294) by Alex Hermann and Alexander Jones focuses on the unique challenges Native American students have when transitioning to college. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 12 percent of Native Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 have a four-year college degree. The article appears City Newspaper’s 2014 Student Survival Guide (https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/student-survival-guide-2014/Content?oid=2421254).

The article notes MCC’s Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Club and its current president Elissa Parker. According to the article, Parker considers “the biggest problem facing Native Americans in the 21st century is simply ignorance. … People think that we don’t exist anymore.”

Thanks to Char Guess-Bardques (Educational Opportunity Program) for her assistance with the article.

Rosanna Yule
Marketing and Community Relations
09/02/2014