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‘It’s a family’: How a California tribal college is opening doors for Native students
California Indian Nations College in Palm Desert sees a bright future for its community-centered approach to higher education for Native students. Recently accredited, the college supports two proposed bills that would add tribal colleges to the official definition of higher education in California as well as ensure units are transferable to and from other colleges.
What happened
According to CalMatters’s source item, ‘It’s a family’: How a California tribal college is opening doors for Native students, California Indian Nations College in Palm Desert sees a bright future for its community-centered approach to higher education for Native students. Recently accredited, the college supports two proposed bills that would add tribal colleges to the official definition of higher education in California as well as ensure units are transferable to and from other colleges.
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- ‘It’s a family’: How a California tribal college is opening doors for Native studentsCalMatters - 2026-06-04T12:00:00+00:00
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