黑料吃瓜网

Mission

The 黑料吃瓜网 provides quality higher education and lifelong educational opportunities for Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), Isanti (Santee Dakota) and all learners.

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Vision

黑料吃瓜网 is envisioned as a comprehensive Tribal College which values service through high quality education. The college is distinctive in serving the diverse people of the Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha) and Isanti (Santee Dakota) Nations.  It features an enriched living and learning environment and year-round operation. The identity of the college is framed by a substantive commitment to multicultural learning.

Institutional programs value and cultivate the creative and productive talents of learners, faculty, and staff, and seek ways to contribute to the self-sufficiency of the Nations served, the well-being of our communities, and the quality of life and development of its learners, faculty, and service areas.

The overall goals of NICC:

• Prepare individuals for their roles as effective tribal members and citizens in a changing and complex environment.
• Integrate, revitalize and preserve Umoⁿhoⁿ and Isanti culture throughout the college environment, including but not limited to: history, Umoⁿhoⁿ language, Dakota language, games, songs, arts/crafts and the way of life.
• Expose students to and expand the mission driven curriculum in the arts, humanities, communication, sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and Native American studies.
• Build skills for lifelong learning.
• Provide an enhanced, sustainable, positive learning environment.
• Organize, manage, and finance higher education for NICC as a model Tribal College.
• Integrate learning in ways that cultivate an individual's understanding and ability to think about large and complex subjects, formulate and analyze valid concepts, solve problems, and clarify values.

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Core Beliefs and Values

The College is committed to the following Core Beliefs:

• We believe in empowering our students with tools for Tribal Nation building, so that our communities can achieve a higher level of sovereignty and self-determination.
• We believe in the cultural preservation, continuity, and revitalization consistent with the Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha) and Isanti (Santee Dakota) peoples鈥� needs, including languages and Tribal knowledge.
• We believe that learning is a life-long process, and the learner-centered atmosphere is of the utmost importance.
• We believe in a safe and healthy working and learning environment that promotes free expression and the exchange of ideas, so learners will be challenged to think holistically, and be able to live responsibly and productively in a Tribal and global society.

In addition, the College is committed to the following Core Values: