12/13

[Tom Coffin]

please schedule 11:30am/e - 2:30pm/e

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Here is the Draft Agenda for the December 13th meeting (9:30 a.m. - 1:30
p.m. MST) at
> the AHPCC and with UNM's President, Dr. Gordon. Draft means that the date
& times will
> not change, maybe just the complete attendees list. For the first half
hour we will be
> introducing ourselves to each other, since we are all going to meet each
other for the
> first time. We will be receiving a presentation from the National Museum
of American
> Indians in D.C. via the Grid at the ACCESS Center out of Ballston,
Virginia (right
> beside NSF). Right after that, we will have our first "Collaborative
Community of
> Nations" meeting via the Grid so that a representative from each of the
groups can
> give a quick 5 minute overview/vision of what they would like to
accomplish. I will
> give an overview of the 'Faculty Internet Institute', as well as a
presentation on the
> "Collaborative Community of Nations" concept. Afterwards, those present
here in
> Albuquerque, NM at AHPCC will be attending a luncheon with UNM's
President, Dr.
> Gordon, at University House on the UNM campus.
>
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> The regional distance education groups forming the "Collaborative
Community of
> Nations" are:
>
> Pueblo Indian Community College
>
>      BIA - OIEP Southern Pueblo Agency in Albuquerque, NM (representing 9
Pueblos
>      & Tribes)
>      Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM
(representing 350+
>      Tribes)
>      Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque, NM
>      (representing 350+ Tribes)
>
> Faculty Internet Institute
>
>      UNM / Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center in Albuquerque, NM
>      Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque, NM
>      Dine’ College in Tsaile, AZ & Shiprock, NM (representing 8 campuses
on the
>      Navajo Nation)
>      Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS (representing 350+
Tribes)
>
>      Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM
>
> Native Virtual Museum
>
>      UNM / Arts of the Americas Institute in Albuquerque, NM
>      Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM
>      Smithsonian's National Museum of American Indian in Washington, DC
>      (representing 350+ Tribes)
>
> Native American Language Repository
>
>      Department of Interior's Administration for Native Americans (ANA) in
>      Washington, DC (representing 350+ Tribes)
>      Navajo Nation Rural Systemic Initiative (NN RSI) in Window Rock, AZ
>      (representing 10 Tribal Agencies on the Navajo Nation)
>      Dine’ College in Tsaile, AZ & Shiprock, NM
>      National Museum of American Indian in Washington, DC
>



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Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu