Full Description
This book offers new perspectives from Indigenous leaders in academic affairs, student affairs, and central administration to improve colleges and universities in service to Indigenous students and professionals. Providing rich context on the realities of Indigenous leadership in today's higher education landscape, and highlighting organizations that center Indigenous knowledges and approaches, the volume brings together prominent voices of Indigenous Peoples on administration and governance, Indigenous leadership academic programs, and Indigenous student leadership and activism. The book discusses and illustrates ways that leadership norms, values, assumptions, and behaviors can often originate from cultural identities, and how these assumptions can affect how colleges and universities evolve to serve Indigenous Peoples. The perspectives in this book contribute valuable insights for leadership development and reflection among novice, experienced, and emerging leaders in higher education, and offers key recommendations for transforming higher education. This volume will be important reading for those studying or researching Education Leadership, Indigenous Studies, Higher Education, Foundations of Education, and Multicultural Education, and will serve as a beneficial resource to Indigenous leaders and educational leaders.
Contents
Introduction Section 1: Administration and Governance 1. Advocating for Our Future Generations: Strategies of Indigenous Women in Academia for Representation, Rights, and Reciprocity in Attaining Academic Success 2. Creating a Higher Education Collaborative through a Diné Perspective 3. Kuleana to the Lāhui: A Genealogy of ʻŌiwi Leadership in Higher Education 4. Cultivating Indigenous Leadership: Insights from Young Elders 5. Making Campus: Building Within and Beyond 6. Walk Into the Room Like Your Ancestors Sent You Section 2: Indigenous Leadership Academic Programs 7. Developing Native American Leaders: A Discussion of the Master's in Native Leadership at Southeastern Oklahoma State University 8. Liberating Sovereign Futures: Growing Educational Leadership Preparation Programming in Higher Education 9. Ancestral Leadership: Planting Our Legacy through Visionary and Holistic Leadership of the Corn Pollen 10. Ke Kani a Ka Pahu: Balancing the Myth of Academic Leadership on a Thin Blade of Grass 11. The Evolution of an Indigenous Student Success Center at a Community and Technical College in Washington State 12. Ho'oponopono to Improve Family Engagement in Academic Programs 13. Tribute of Culture and Place: Acknowledging the Empowerment of Partnership with Muckleshoot Tribal College in Higher Education Section 3: Indigenous Student Leadership and Activism 14. Living Indigenous Methodologies through the Guidance of Academic Ancestors: Stories of Mentorship, Disruption, and Community in our Doctoral Journey 15. An Indigenous Leadership Renaissance: Conceptualizing Leadership and Activism through Acts of Home-Going and the 4Rs 16. Indigenous Student Activism and Movements: Removing Racist Representations and Colonial Narratives in the Academy 17. Giving Back as a Form of Student Leadership for Native Undergraduate STEM Students 18. Developing Native Student Leaders in Higher Education through ONASHE (Oklahoma Native American Students in Higher Education 19. Inspiring Global Indigenous Leaders through Student Mobility Closing
