Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 Memorial Stadium is a sport stadium in Lawrence, Kansas. The facility is primarily used by Haskell Indian Nations University for college football and formerly by local high school teams. [ 1 ]
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.
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.
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.
The Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians are the athletic teams that represent Haskell Indian Nations University, located in Lawrence, Kansas, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing as an NAIA Independent within the Continental Athletic Conference since the 2015–16 academic year.
Eastern New Mexico University, Ruidoso (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe; Navajo Technical University, Crownpoint; Northern New Mexico College, Española (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) San Juan College, Farmington (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution)
In that capacity, he helped gain congressional authorization for construction of three off-reservation Indian boarding schools, and the location of one in Lawrence, Kansas. It opened in 1884, and was named for him in 1887. It has since developed as Haskell Indian Nations University, with its most famous alumnus being Jim Thorpe.