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View of Haskell campus looking Northwest. Haskell Indian Nations University is a public tribal [2] land-grant university in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.Founded in 1884 as a residential boarding school for Native American children, [3] the school has developed into a university operated by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs [4] that offers both associate and baccalaureate degrees. [5]
Haskell Indian Nations University: 1898 [21] Stauffer-Flint Hall: University of Kansas: 1899: Built as the Fowler Shops for engineering students. [22] Bailey Hall: University of Kansas: 1900: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [8] [19] Holton Hall: Kansas State University: 1900 [8] [23] Kiva Hall: Haskell Indian Nations ...
Venida S. Chenault is an American Potawatomi government official and academic administrator who served as president of Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) from 2014 to 2019. She was previously a professor of social sciences and served as the HINU vice president of academic affairs from 2004 to 2014.
Haskell is the only federally run university that exclusively accepts members of tribal nations. It is one of two higher education institutions overseen by the Department of Indian Education.
A congressional investigation of reports that Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence has disregarded sexual assaults of students is underway, according to a July letter from lawmakers.
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A Big 12 school, the University of Kansas has more than 170 fields of study and the nationally known Kansas Jayhawks athletics programs. Haskell Indian Nations University offers free tuition to members of registered Native American tribes. However, students are required to pay semester fees similar to many other colleges in the United States.
The Kansas Board of Regents governs six state universities and supervises and coordinates 19 community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal university. The Board also authorizes private and out-of-state institutions to operate in Kansas with a Certificate of Approval renewed annually.