About Native American College
About the Native American College (NAC)
Vision:
To provide students of the Native American College (NAC) with the necessary academic, professional, tribally centered, community-focused, culturally based skills to become successful leaders.
Purpose:
The Native American College provides a Native-based cohort educational experience for students. The experience is designed to equip students with the necessary academic, professional, tribal government-centered, community-focused, culturally based knowledge and skills to become successful leaders within our communities. The Native American College will offer support services to help students have a successful university experience.
Student Experience
- Cohorts for both first-year students and transfer students.
- Minor in Native American Studies, including Tribal Leadership courses.
- Road map for General Education (GE) requirements to keep the cohort together as much as possible.
- Students can major in any area they are accepted into by the Department.
- Closely mentored by Native American faculty and Sacramento State faculty.
- Centralized physical space for the Co-Curricular Native American College, which houses resource personnel for the students such as an Outreach/Recruiter, Advisor, Counselor, Administrative Support Assistant, Tutors, Dean, etc.
- Centralized physical space for students to utilize computers, classroom, and meeting space.
- Native American leadership events/speakers/trainings.
- Community-based learning's and internships.
- Housing that reflects the cohort model.
Questions? For further information contact the Native American College at nac@csus.edu.