College of Menominee Nation
HISTORY
The American Indian culture is at the heart of the College of Menominee Nation. At the request of Menominee leaders, Dr. Verna Fowler was asked to create a College on the reservation to help rebuild and strengthen the community’s infrastructure. The College of Menominee Nation began with 42 students in general education courses in borrowed and rented facilities. It was chartered on March 4, 1993, and in 1994 began classes on its current site in the town of Keshena. At the request of the neighboring Oneida Nation, CMN offered a small number of professional development courses nearby in the City of Green Bay. In academic year 2011-12, CMN’s flagship campus serves two-thirds of its enrollment from nine major buildings in Keshena. The remaining one-third of the student enrollment attends classes at a leased facility 45-miles east in the metro Green Bay area.
CHARACTERISTICS
Total Enrollment: 634
% Admitted: 99%
% Pell Recipients Among Freshman: 90%
Retention Rate: 69%
Six-year Graduation Rate: 11%
INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY
The Supplemental Instruction (SI) program will be a student academic assistance program that increases academic performance and retention through it use of collaborative learning strategies. The program targets “high risk” courses rather than “high risk” students. SI will target traditionally difficult academic courses that typically have a 30% or higher rate of “F” final course grades and/or withdrawals. The SI approach will offer regularly scheduled, out-of-class peer-facilitated sessions to all students enrolled in the targeted courses. These sessions offer students an opportunity to discuss and process course information. The approach will be proactive rather than reactive, as students will not perceive the assistance as remediation, but rather as support and assistance for success in the course for all students, independent of preparedness or ability. Faculty will be sent to national and local workshops and conferences on Supplemental Instruction; and will supervise students hired to serve as Supplemental Instructors.