Native American Initiatives (NAI) is a leader in enhancing Native American student and faculty experiences on campus by being innovative and advancing initiatives that honor the importance of building relationships, trust, and mutually beneficial partnerships with Indigenous communities.

We present you with the final 2022-2027 Native American Initiatives (NAI) Strategic Plan: A Collective Approach to Nurturing Indigenous Student Success, which has been developing since the creation of the NAI office in January 2020.

Red Star International, Inc. (Red Star), an Indigenous-led non-profit organization, supported NAI in facilitating a planning process to create an Indigenous-centered, student-focused, and research-based framework to guide NAI’s commitment to leading and coordinating campus-wide support for Indigenous student success.

We added a one-year progress report of the different activities and initiatives aligned with the strategic plan that NAI either led or supported. The activities and initiatives are not a comprehensive list of all the work achieved by our institutional partners. However, it is a start in documenting the operationalization of the plan’s strategic priorities.

May the plan be helpful in your work as we strive to enhance the university experience for Native American students, faculty, and communities.

NAI Strategic Plan 2022-2027

Double-page spreads 8-1/2” x 11” pages

NAI Strategic Plan Year 1 Progress Report

NAI Strategic Plan Year 1 Progress Report (2022-2023)

The Indigenous Circle is a University of Arizona (UArizona) organization for staff and faculty members who are and/or work with Indigenous communities and/or Indigenous students. We foster networks and build collaborations to optimize partnership and programming opportunities in culturally appropriate and respectful ways, thereby, increasing our effectiveness at recruiting and retaining Indigenous staff, faculty, and students; ensuring community based participatory efforts; building Indigenous community capacity; supporting awareness of Indigenous contributions at campus events; and, ultimately becoming a recognized institutional entity.

Meetings:  Organization meetings are held in spring and fall and are hosted by a UArizona unit/department.  Date, time, and location will vary depending on the host.  Meeting announcements will be posted to the listserv.

Agenda:  The host of the meetings will provide a welcome and an overview of their unit/department to kick-off the meeting.  The remainder of the meeting will be open to other agenda topics put forth by the membership.

Listserv:  indigenous_circle@list.arizona.edu; as a member, you are able to post announcements to this listserv.

To add or remove from listserv:  Please contact Martha Lee, Native American Initiatives Program Coordinator, at marthalee@arizona.edu. Thelistserv is restricted to UArizona employees only.