New Developments at Penn - Native hire in Admission
Tina Pierce Fragoso (Nanticoke-Lenni-Lenape) has recently joined Admissions at Penn. She received her BA from Princeton University and worked with Valerie De Cruz, currently Director of the Greenfield Intercultural Center at Penn on student matters while Valerie was Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs at Princeton. While at Princeton Tina also worked in the Admissions office on recruitment related projects. She did her graduate work at Stanford University and was involved in programs related to the Stanford American Indian Organization and the Native American Cultural Center there. Tina is the daughter of the Co-Chief of her tribe in Bridgeton, NJ and has most recently served as tribal manager where she successfully wrote and received numerous grants. Ms. Pierce is no stranger to Penn, having joined us on campus a number of times in the last few years. More recent alumni will remember her and her participation in the 2007 All-Ivy Conference. Tina's admissions designated area is north central US including Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Western Pennsylvania and Morris, Union and Warren Counties in NJ. Beyond her region Tina plans to provide leadership and expertise to her fellow admission officers in Indian recruitment and has begun by planning a southern Kansas-northern Oklahoma meeting in early October.
September 2009
New Developments at Penn - Diversity Fund Grant
Finally, Penn is also happy to announce that the Admissions Office in collaboration with the Center for Native American Studies and the Greenfield Intercultural Center received a Diversity Fund grant from the Provost’s Office to support recruitment and retention efforts this year. These funds will support the plan that Tina will assist in developing with partners on campus and in the alumni community. We are very excited about this opportunity to build a foundation for bringing more talented Native students to Penn.
September 2009
Historian Celia E. Naylor's new book entitled African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens was recently reviewed in the article "Dislodging Comfortable Fictions"
May 2009
Native alumna, Sharon Clahchischilliage SW'91, was quoted in the Navajo Times article, "Native appointees take high profiles in D.C."
May 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports "Ward Churchill Asks Judge to Order His Reinstatement at U. of Colorado"
May 2009
Tulsa World features "Indian mascots hurtful to Native Americans"
April 2009
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education features a story about Native students and faculty at the University of Wyoming in "Chronicling the Lives of Native Americans on Predominantly White Campuses"
March 2009
Indian Country Today reports on research about Native high school students in "Washington State University report measures Native students progress, offers solution"
March 2009
The Daily Pennsylvanian features ANA and Six Directions in, "Few American Indians find home at Penn"
February 2009
ANA board member, Bryan Brayboy GED'96, GR'99, is quoted in Indian
Country Today's article, "Native
student protest has diverse roots and reasons"
January 2009
Read "Abby's
Rhodes" in The Gazette Jan/Feb 2009 edition
January 2009
"Hiding
in Plain Sight: Senior Abigail Seldin Tells the Untold History
of the Pennsylvania Lenape" in Penn
Arts and Sciences Magazine Fall/Winter 2008 edition
December 2008
Abby Seldin, co-curator of the Lenape exhibit, is named a Rhodes Scholar
November 2008
Read "Beyond
the Artifact," a Q&A with Richard Leventhal in The
Gazette
November/December 2008
LeManuel Bitsoi, GRD'07, is highlighted in Diverse: Issues
in Higher Education magazine's article, "Gathering Examines Lack of Minority Men in Post-Graduate Programs"
October 2008
Read about the new
Lenape exhibit in
The Gazette article, "A
Prophecy Fulfilled"
September/October 2008
Learn about "The
Invisible People" in the Philadelphia Inquirer
September 2008
Penn launches the Penn
Cultural Heritage Center
September 2008
Richard Leventhal of
Penn Museum and the School of Arts and Sciences discusses laws
governing artifacts (audio)
September 2008
Read "The
Lenape Experience: Student curates
exhibit on the Lenape at the Penn
Museum" in the Daily Pennsylvanian
September 2008
Read "Dying
Words" in the Philadelphia
Inquirer,
which highlights the Native American Languages in Crisis
Conference held at Penn in May
June 2008
Read "Lenape host Native American Languages in Crisis Conference in Pennsylvania" in News
From Indian Country
June 2008
