First Nations Ed.D. UW-Green Bay News Posts

UW-Green Bay Recognized as a Top College for Indigenous Students by AISES

By

|

Mar 26, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 27, 2025 Top 200 List distinguishes UWGB’s Indigenous enrollment, educational programs and student services Green Bay, WI –The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay was recently recognized by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) in their rankings of the 2024-2025 Top 200 Colleges for Indigenous Students. This distinguishment places UW-Green Bay…

Media Coverage

New degree pathway for Native American students | Inside Higher Ed

By

Kristin Bouchard

|

Jun 13, 2023

A small technical college in Wisconsin created a certificate to include Indigenous learners and incorporate more Native American history and understanding within the community. In Wisconsin, the postsecondary credential completion rate for American Indians in 2019 was 26 percent, well below the state average of 55 percent, according to data from A Stronger Nation and the Lumina…

Media Coverage

Books banned on Native Americans are at Potawatomi Library, Wisconsin | Green Bay Press Gazette

By

Kristin Bouchard

|

May 24, 2023

‘We carry a lot of titles that, I think, a lot of traditional public libraries don’t carry,’ the Potawatomi Cultural Center’s manager said. CRANDON – As history books are being banned across the country by certain school districts and libraries in an apparent culture war against critical race theory, officials at the Potawatomi Library in…

News

UW-Green Bay’s First Nations Education Doctorate program wins Teaching Excellence Award

By

Editorial Student

|

Apr 6, 2023

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents announced the recipients of its 31st annual Teaching Excellence Awards. The awards recognize outstanding teaching and are the UW System’s highest recognition for members of its faculty and instructional academic staff, and were presented at the Board of Regents award ceremony on March 31. UW-Green Bay’s First Nations…

Features

Dr. Rosa King’s journey to and through First Nations Studies

By

Kristin Bouchard

|

Mar 26, 2023

Meet one of the first graduates of our First Nations Education Doctorate program Each fall, students in the Oneida language immersion program excitedly harvest the bounty from the Three Sisters garden located at their school in Oneida, Wisconsin. What might appear to an outsider as a simple outdoor activity for energetic children is actually much,…

Media Coverage

UWGB First Nations programs receive $100,000 support from Packers partner Delaware North | Latest News | insightonbusiness.com

By

Kristin Bouchard

|

Dec 2, 2022

GREEN BAY—Global hospitality company Delaware North, which operates foodservice at the Green Bay Packers’ Lambeau Field, announced a $100,000 donation to University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in support of its First Nations programs. Delaware North recently provided the first of five annual installments of $20,000 to the university. “The First Nations programs are of significant importance…

Media Coverage

Wisconsin schools are not meeting state mandate on Native American education – Wausau Pilot & Review

By

Kristin Bouchard

|

Aug 23, 2022

The Wisconsin Indian Education Association held a celebration of the state’s commitment to Native American education under Act 31 on Thursday, Aug. 18 at the Menominee Casino Resort in Keshena, with Native peoples from all over Wisconsin attending. Act 31 is a remarkable piece of legislation. The law requires that primary and secondary public schools…

Media Coverage

‘Learning is a lifelong journey’ – Indian Country Today

By

Jena Richter Landers

|

Jul 14, 2022

They crossed the stage one by one to collect a diploma like no other – the nation’s first-ever doctoral degree in First Nations Education. After studying Indigenous issues, conducting oral histories with tribal leaders, elders and youth, and helping devise ways to improve the educational system for Indigenous students, four Native educators became the nation’s…

Media Coverage

UW-Green Bay graduates first class of doctors of Indigenous education

By

Sue Bodilly

|

May 25, 2022

GREEN BAY – Dr. Crystal Lepscier, Ed. D, was looking for a way to help other Indigenous students navigate their way through microaggression racism while working on her dissertation. For her, it was about reconnecting with traditional Indigenous ways, such as by learning how to make moccasins and then teaching that skill to others. Reconnecting…

Media Coverage

UW-Green Bay awards inaugural doctoral degrees in First Nations Education | Madison365

By

Sue Bodilly

|

May 19, 2022

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay last week awarded its first-ever doctoral degrees in First Nations Education.Yekuhsiyo Rosa King, Crystal Leah Tourtillott Lepscier, Artley Murray Skenandore Jr. and Vicki Lee Young all received their degrees at the 2022 spring/summer commencement exercises on Saturday. They are four of the 12 students who make up the program’s first…

Tag: First Nations Ed.D.