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Diné College offers bachelor's degrees, associate degrees,certificate programs, and one master's degree. [22]The college's Center for Diné Studies "applies Navajo Są́ʼąh Naagháí Bikʼeh Hózhóón principles to advance quality student learning through Nitsáhákees (Thinking), Nahatʼá (Planning), Iiná (Living) and Siihasin (Assurance) in study of the Navajo language, history, and ...
Navajo Academy and Navajo Mission had a similar academic goal that would help enhance the education of the Navajo people. With a similar mission, both schools decided to share the Mission campus in Farmington, New Mexico. This school became known as Navajo Methodist Mission Academy. The schools were not considered one school.
The Alamo Navajo School Board, Inc. (ANSB) is the entity controlling a K-12 tribal school in Alamo, New Mexico. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [ 2 ] It also maintains a clinic and other public infrastructure in Alamo.
The Navajo Nation has made substantial improvements to Chinle/Many Farms Community School, undertaking a major 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m 2) expansion that was constructed from May 2003 to December 2004. It added two new three-story dormitories, each containing 26 separate rooms (52 rooms total, with semi-private and private bathrooms).
After expanding the school's mission, the Center was renamed Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1985. The institution was designated a land-grant college in 1994 alongside 31 other tribal colleges. [2] In 2006, the Navajo Nation Council approved changing its name to Navajo Technical College. The institution's name was changed once more in ...
Pine Hill Schools is a K-12 [1] tribal school system operated by the Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. (RNSB), in association with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), in Pine Hill, New Mexico. [2] It is on the Ramah Navajo Reservation and was originally known as Ramah Navajo High School. In January 1995 it had 460 Ramah Navajo students. [3]
In 1903 the school moved to Tuba City and there became the Western Navajo School. It received its current name circa the 1930s. [3] Like other Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding schools of the early to mid-20th century, Tuba City Boarding had a military-esque regimen forcing assimilation. Its peak boarding enrollment was over 1,000.
In 1947, the Special Navajo Program was created, in which Navajo children attended five years of school to receive an eighth-grade education. The SNP led to major growth at PIS. 200 Navajo children enrolled in the first year, and more students participated every year until 1958, when the PIS had 427 Navajos and 600 regular students.