Funding
Grants & Initiatives:
Indian Professional Development Project:
The Indian Professional Development Project was funded to serve twenty Native American students in earning either a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Education and obtaining state teacher or principal certification.
Goals of the project are: 1) To provide Native American students, who are enrolled tribal members, with educational, financial, and personal support in attaining a Bachelor of Science degree and state teacher certification or a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and state principal certification in a three-year period; and 2) to provide a one-year induction service for completers of the Indian Professional Development Program who are hired as certified teachers or administrators.
Head Start Partnership Grant:
The Head Start Partnership Grant was funded to create a partnership with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Head Start Program to implement an educational curriculum that would assist Head Start Paraprofessionals in attaining degrees at the Associate and Baccalaureate levels and state teacher certification upon completion of the degreed program.
Dakota Assets:
The Black Hills Special Services Cooperative/Technology and Innovation in Teaching (BHSSC/TIE) received funding from the Department of Education under the Dakota Assets Transition to Teaching (TTT) Project. This funding enabled a partnership with Sinte Gleska University’s Education Department to implement enhancements that will strengthen the recruitment and placement efforts of SGU graduates as teachers within identified South Dakota High Needs Schools.
The Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities
The Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities is a partnership between the University of South Dakota, Sanford Research/USD, Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Health Board and Sinte Gleska University to address health disparities among Native American people in the Aberdeen Area and facilitate health disparities research through training and education. The Center of Excellence is funded by a grant from the National Institutes on Minority Health and Health Disparities. As part of the initiative to promote the health care profession, Sinte Gleska University hosts an annual Health Careers Day in March.
The Indian Professional Development Project was funded to serve twenty Native American students in earning either a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Education and obtaining state teacher or principal certification.
Goals of the project are: 1) To provide Native American students, who are enrolled tribal members, with educational, financial, and personal support in attaining a Bachelor of Science degree and state teacher certification or a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and state principal certification in a three-year period; and 2) to provide a one-year induction service for completers of the Indian Professional Development Program who are hired as certified teachers or administrators.
Head Start Partnership Grant:
The Head Start Partnership Grant was funded to create a partnership with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Head Start Program to implement an educational curriculum that would assist Head Start Paraprofessionals in attaining degrees at the Associate and Baccalaureate levels and state teacher certification upon completion of the degreed program.
Dakota Assets:
The Black Hills Special Services Cooperative/Technology and Innovation in Teaching (BHSSC/TIE) received funding from the Department of Education under the Dakota Assets Transition to Teaching (TTT) Project. This funding enabled a partnership with Sinte Gleska University’s Education Department to implement enhancements that will strengthen the recruitment and placement efforts of SGU graduates as teachers within identified South Dakota High Needs Schools.
The Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities
The Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities is a partnership between the University of South Dakota, Sanford Research/USD, Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Health Board and Sinte Gleska University to address health disparities among Native American people in the Aberdeen Area and facilitate health disparities research through training and education. The Center of Excellence is funded by a grant from the National Institutes on Minority Health and Health Disparities. As part of the initiative to promote the health care profession, Sinte Gleska University hosts an annual Health Careers Day in March.
