Download Enhancement Position Request Anthropology Component of the

Center for Native American
Studies & Anthropology
Joint Tenure-Track
Enhancement Position
Request
Center for Native American Studies
April Lindala, Director & Dr. Martin Reinhardt
Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology
Dr. Alex Ruuska & Dr. Scott Demel
Criteria #1 – Alignment with Mission
• Intellectual Foundation - offers an
interdisciplinary curriculum focusing on
seven primary themes found in Native
American Studies: 1) identities; 2) culture
and lifeways, 3) oral traditions and
histories, 4) governance and sovereignty;
5) education; 6) family and communities
and 7) traditional ecological knowledge.
• Career Preparation – due to the
interdisciplinary nature of students are
prepared to both pursue careers and seek
advanced degrees. In pursuing a career,
students who have successfully completed
a minor in Native American Studies will
have tools to work in varying occupations.
• Active Learning - engages students in
theoretical, methodological and applied
learning modalities founded in American
Indian knowledge systems.
• Community Engagement – students will
experience the curriculum by connecting
with Indigenous communities locally,
regionally, nationally and globally.
ANTHROPOLOGY
• Intellectual Foundation - includes a curriculum
focusing on reasoning skills, humanistic and
scientific inquiry, technological and writing skills
along with contemporary, historic, and
prehistoric cultural, linguistic, archaeological, and
biological knowledge about diverse societies and
cultures around the world.
• Career Preparation - our hands-on learning style
evidenced in museum studies, experimental
archaeology, archaeological field schools,
ethnographic research, and visual anthropology
gives students real life skills that can be used
immediately upon graduation.
• Active Learning - engages students in higherorder thinking tasks such as discovery, hypothesis
creation and analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
• Community Engagement - fosters collaboration
between the students’ experience of the
curriculum and communities outside the
university at the local, state, regional, national
and global levels.
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Criteria #2 - History, development, and
expectations of the program
• Interdisciplinary NAS minor
established 1991
• First full-time faculty member, Don
Chosa, hired to teach
Anishinaabemowin 1993
• CNAS approved by Board of Control
1996
• First CNAS director, Dr. Dennis
Tibbetts, hired 1996
• Current director, April Lindala, hired
2005
• CNAS Faculty Affairs Committee
formed 2005
• Current Anishinaabemowin instructor,
Kenn Pitawanakwat, hired 2007
• First tenure-line faculty member, Dr.
Martin Reinhardt, hired 2010
• 2001-Present NAS expanded to
include 22 courses
ANTHROPOLOGY
• Anthropology minor was
reinstated in 2008
• Sociocultural Anthropologist
Dr. Alex Ruuska hired in 2008
• Archaeologist Dr. Scott Demel
hired in 2009
• Archaeology field school
reinstated summer 2010
• Over the past 4.5 years
Anthropology has witnessed
phenomenal growth in the
Anthropology Component within
the Department of Sociology &
Social Work (22 courses offered)
• 2012 Department name changed
to: Sociology, Social Work and
Anthropology
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Criteria #3 - External demand for the program
• Tribes are often the largest employer in the rural
communities . Growth in tribes is significantly
impacting other sectors of government at local,
state and federal levels.
• The Indian Gaming Industry created 204,000 new
jobs within gaming facilities (NIGA 2009). This had a
secondary effect of spawning growth in surrounding
communities and industries., and providing revenue
for expansion of tribal service related jobs.
• There are 1195 tribes or first nations in North
America (565 tribes in U.S. and 630 Canada)
• Traditional tribal knowledge is central to
environmental programming and “green” economy
as emphasized at the annual Bioneers conference in
San Rafael, California (October 2012).
• There are 69 tribes or First Nations in the Great
Lakes Region (12 MI/IND, 11 WIS, 11 MN, 8 NY, 16
Ontario, 11 Quebec).
• NMU could be the first public university in Michigan
to offer a baccalaureate in Native American Studies.
ANTHROPOLOGY
• Federal government agencies will also have
a greater need for anthropologists to
evaluate features of cultures around the
world. According to the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS), employment of
anthropologists had been projected to
increase 28% from 2008-2018
(www.bls.gov).
• The NMU anthropology major has been
designed to compliment rather than
compete with regional universities
offering anthropology programs. We have
a distinctive applied focus, which helps to
generate grant monies, and research
projects in sociocultural anthropology and
archaeology.
• Research projects have been collaborative
efforts with communities in the U.P. &
Michigan
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
ANTHROPOLOGY
• NAS minors in Fall 2006 = 13. NAS
minors in Fall 2012 = 36.
• First ICP graduated in December
of 2010. Currently NAS has three
students in various stages of ICP.
• Increased number of courses
from 9 in 2005 to 22 in 2013.
• MAE in Educational
Administration with a American
Indian emphasis created in 2011,
endorsed by Tribal Education
Department’s National Assembly.
• Growth of the minor to a current
level of 48 students; 6 in ICPs
(Individually Created Programs)
• Growth in the number of classes
from an estimated 2-3 five years
ago to 22 current course
offerings
• Well-received faculty Directed
Study Abroad Program AN498
(Peru 2009)
• Reinstatement of the summer
archaeology field school (AN355);
Beaver Island 2010 and 2012
• Reinstatement of the student
NMU Anthropology Club with a
mailing list of nearly 100 students
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
Criteria #4 - Internal demand for the program
Criteria #5 - Quality of the program inputs
and resources
• Equipment – active resource
room of books and other texts
• Facilities – shared space in
Whitman Hall. Also caretakers
of Whitman Hall Fire site.
• Faculty – active scholarship,
productivity in publications,
significant grant writing,
opportunities for internships
and tribal and inter-tribal
collaboration.
• Students - 36 declared - 1st
minors in Fall 2012. 3 ICPs. 4
students hired by GLIFWC due
to successful completion of
NAS minor.
ANTHROPOLOGY
• Equipment - internal/external
grants have secured necessary
tools/supplies
• Anthropology library started
• Facilities – existing labs and offices
to be replaced in Fall 2014 (new
Jamrich facility)
• Faculty – active scholarship,
productivity in publications, grants,
research projects, student lab and
internship opportunities;
collaboration and community
engagement
• Students – over 50 minors, 6 ICPs;
8 students have advanced to
graduate school; Anthropology Club
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Criteria #6 - Quality of program outcomes
• Job placement - Four students with an NAS
minor hired by the GLIFWC based in large on
their successful completion of minor.
• Two students have been successful interns with
GLIFWC as part of an on-going effort to
revitalize Anishinaabemowin.
• Many K-12 teachers and other educational
workers complete courses in American Indian
education which enhances their ability to
perform their job ,and has been reported to
play a key role in their promotion and retention.
• Employment outlook - The Indigenous
population is the youngest and fastest growing
population in the US and abroad.
• Indigenous communities are growing rapidly in
all areas of the economy especially in the area
of natural resources.
• Federal, state, and local governments must
interact with tribal governments and individuals
in order to provide industry with a competitive
advantage.
ANTHROPOLOGY
• Job placement - Students are
experiencing a high rate of job
placement following graduation. This
is true at regional, national, and
international levels. Related summer
employment opportunities positive.
• Employment - of anthropologists had
been projected to increase 28% from
2008-2018 (www.bls.gov). Job
growth predicted to be spurred by a
greater demand for scientific and
technical consultants who can analyze
and advise on various matters,.
• In May 2010, the BLS reported that
anthropologists earned on average
$58,040 per year. Those employed by
the federal government earned a
mean annual wage of $71,940, the
highest wage among all industries.
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Criteria #7 - Size, scope, and productivity of program
40
35
NATIVE
AMERICAN
STUDIES
30
2007
25
2008
2009
20
2010
15
2011
10
2012
0
NAS Minor
ICP - NAS Concentration
60
50
40
ANTHROPOLOGY 30
20
10
0
Anthropology Minors and ICPs
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
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Criteria #8 - Revenue and other resources
generated by the program
• Enrollment/tuition – enrollment
spread over foundational
courses, language courses and
upper division courses.
• Grants – approximately
$180,000.00 in grant monies
secured between 2009-2012
• King*Chavez*Parks Visiting Professor
Initiative
• Michigan Humanities Council
• National Endowment for the Arts
• Tribal 2% Funding Requests
• Wildcat Innovation Fund
• Fund-raising
• Decolonizing Diet Project
• Growing Spaces Bio-Dome
ANTHROPOLOGY
• Enrollment/tuition – high
enrollment in all levels of classes
• Grants - $173,659 in grant monies
secured over the past 4.5 years
• National Park Service - ethnographic study
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
• Bureau of Land Management two year
ethnographic study of Mormon Mtns.
• Michigan Humanities Council - Beaver
Island Archaeology Exhibit at Beaumier
UP Heritage Ctr.
• COPS grants , ASL grants, Dept. grant
• Fund-raising
• NMU Foundation - Possible archaeology
field school station on Beaver Island
• NMU Foundation student scholarships
• Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation
scholarships
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
• Instructional costs –Anticipated new faculty member will cost
$78,500 to $86,000 (salary and benefits)
• Use of existing facilities
• New support needed
• Estimated $3,000 support/year
• AAUP funded travel and professional development will be used to
cover travel and development expenses. For all other requirements
we anticipate use of existing facilities.
• Ability to travel to regional tribes for purposes of introduction and
familiarization
• Efficiencies – cost cutting - shared expenses
• A joint position is an efficient way to increase the
vitality of two emerging academic programs
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
Criteria #9 - Costs and other expenses
associated with the program
Criteria #10 - Impact, justification, and
overall essentiality of the program
• The core values of Native
American Studies are firmly
aligned with the values of
academic affairs. Among our
course offerings are valuable
liberal studies and world culture
offerings, a service learning
component and upper level
courses endorsed by a national
organization: TEDNA.
• The average number of full-time
faculty is 5.1 for ten institutions
with American Indian/Native
American/Indigenous Studies
programs with a range of student
population of approximately
4,000-11,000 students.
ANTHROPOLOGY
• Student enrollment has grown substantially
over the past 4.5 years with on average 50
students in the minor or Individually Created
Program. We are involving students directly in
our research projects, offering students the
necessary training to pursue graduate school,
and be employable.
• Anthropology is firmly in line with the mission
of the University and Academic Affairs.
• Anthropology is an essential component of any
University’s Liberal Studies Program. At
comparable sister institutes, we find an
average of six to seventeen full time tenuretrack faculty members in anthropology.
• We expect to continue our successful
collaboration with various agencies,
municipalities, and NMU departments of
Sociology, NAS, Criminal Justice, Geography,
International Studies, Biology, Ecology, and
History.
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Criteria #11 - Opportunity analysis of the program –
what new possibilities will this program present?
• A shared joint tenure-track enhancement position will enable Native American
Studies and Anthropology to continue to grow and serve the current needs of
our students. This will allow increased focus on core courses, and enable faculty
to teach courses that have not been offered for some time due to high levels of
commitment in offering courses for our current student base (minors and ICPs).
• Improved opportunities to: seek external grants, for student participation
(research projects), and increased recruitment and retention.
• Increased opportunity to develop new academic and community relationships.
Reallocation of Resources Criteria:
• There are emergent properties between Native American Studies and
Anthropology. We may grow in ways together as neither department may have
developed alone. The success of this model may prove useful to future
collaborations on campus.
What the Joint Enhancement
Position Will Provide
• Increased recruitment and retention of students enrolled
in NAS and Anthropology courses
• Progress toward a future major in Native American
Studies and a major in Anthropology
• Increased opportunities for campus/community
collaboration, specifically with tribes and inter-tribal
agencies, government municipalities and agencies
• Increased opportunities for scholarships, grant funding,
student internships and service learning
• Concrete model for interdisciplinary collaboration
between departments