/news-archive/tag/cherokee-nation/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:12:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2021/06/08/kindle-holderby-assistant-vice-chancellor-enrollment-management/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:12:42 +0000 /news/?p=79074 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock welcomes Kindle Holderby as new Assistant Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Management]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has named Kindle Holderby as the new assistant vice chancellor of enrollment management. 听 鈥淚鈥檓 incredibly grateful for the opportunity to serve at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock,鈥� Holderby said. 鈥淭he faculty I鈥檝e met are very dedicated to their students and research. The staff are student-oriented and focused. I saw this as an amazing opportunity to come to a well-known, established university dedicated to student success.鈥� Holderby joins 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock with more than a decade of experience in enrollment management. At his most recent institution, Emporia State University, Holderby’s team ended a three-year cycle of declining enrollment through improvement efforts in undergraduate enrollment management, recruitment, and marketing. 鈥淲e are excited about the experience, skill set, and diverse perspectives that Mr. Holderby brings to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock,鈥� said Dr. Cody Decker, vice chancellor for student affairs and chief data officer at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. 鈥淢r. Holderby, working with the strategic enrollment management plan, will collaborate with faculty and staff to pursue continuous improvement in enrollment management, while adapting to the opportunities presented by the pandemic.鈥� Prior to Emporia State, Holderby served as vice president of student affairs at Bacone College, where his enrollment management team reversed a seven-year enrollment decline. Holderby previously served as a dean of students, director of enrollment management, director of work study, director of a foster care program, and an admissions recruiter. While not working in enrollment management, Holderby is also a college basketball referee. In his new role, Holderby is responsible for the leadership and oversight of undergraduate recruitment and admissions at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, TRIO, Student Orientation and Transitions, the Intensive English Language Program, and the Office of International Student Services. 鈥淪ince 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock is a metropolitan university, it鈥檚 going to be a top priority to tap into the workforce and the nontraditional learners who often enroll as part-time students,鈥� Holderby said. 鈥淲e want to speak with industry leaders to discover what skills they want their employees to have. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock offers a wide variety of programs and certificates geared toward the business community and working professionals who are looking to earn a new degree and learn new skills to enhance their careers.鈥� Holderby earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in political science from Northeastern State University and a master鈥檚 degree in education administration from East Central University. He plans to graduate with a Doctor in Education in Higher Education Administration from Northeastern University this year.听 Holderby is a native of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and a member of the Cherokee Nation. His first post-college job with the Cherokee Nation Indian Child Welfare led to a unique program during his first job in higher education. 鈥淚 was working for the Cherokee Nation as a social worker and an experience with a friend who was in foster care got me interested in working with kids in foster care,鈥� Holderby said. 鈥淚 started a foster care program where we could recruit students who had been in the foster care system to come into a cohort at Bacone College.鈥� Holderby and his wife Nicole live in Benton with their children, Dylan, 15, Haley, 12, and Blakely, 1.]]> /news-archive/2018/07/06/sequoyah-internship-program/ Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:16:24 +0000 /news/?p=71054 ... Native American students selected for internship program at Sequoyah National Research Center]]> Two Native American students are getting in touch with their heritage by serving as interns this summer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock鈥檚 Sequoyah National Research Center.听 Kevin Briceland, a doctoral student studying American history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Courtney Peyketewa, a graduate student studying adult higher education at the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, have been selected for the center鈥檚 Native American Student Internship Program. The goal of the program is to provide students an experiential learning environment in which to acquire an understanding of the value of archives and the research potential of the collections of the Center and to engage in academic research and practical archival activities related to tribal culture, society, and issues. The interns work 25 hours a week from June 4 to July 27 and receive on-campus housing and a $2,000 stipend. Interns are expected to demonstrate the value of their experience by either a summary report of work, finding aids for collections, or reports of research or other written work that may be shared with their home institutions. Peyketewa, a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, is working on the center鈥檚 World War I project with SNRC Director Dr. Daniel Littlefield and Archivist Erin Fehr. 鈥淲e are working on modern warriors of World War I,鈥� she said. 鈥淭he has asked the center to help identify the 12,000 American Indian servicemen who served in World War I. We are collecting names, their enlistment records, and any medals or honors they have received. In honor of the centennial, we wanted to honor those who served and recognize them for their service.鈥� The center will also create a website where the public will be able to access the records. 鈥淚t is very interesting. I am learning stuff every day that I didn鈥檛 learn about before,鈥� Peyketewa said. 鈥淐urrently, I am contacting all the tribes to ask them if they have any information or memorials on their tribe members who are WWI veterans to be able to obtain that information.鈥� After Peyketewa earns her Master of Education, the 27-year-old Oklahoma City native plans to work in student affairs at a university. She also hopes to learn more about her family history while working at the center. 鈥淚t was awesome to be selected for this opportunity. I feel like I am filling in information for people, and that it is a way of giving back,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 plan to learn about my family heritage by talking to Dr. Littlefield. He tells me tidbits of information. I also hope to be able to trace my family tree and learn more about my family.鈥� Briceland, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is processing the manuscript collection of SNRC Director Littlefield. He said working at the archives will help prepare him for his dissertation research. 鈥淎s an historian in training, it will help me to have a working knowledge of an archive,鈥� Briceland said. 鈥淚 plan to do a lot of my dissertation research here, so this is a good introduction. I like that I am getting two months of complete access to the materials I know I am going to use down the road.鈥� Briceland is planning to write his dissertation on race and policy in Indian Territory from the post-Civil War era through the 1920s. 鈥淚 think it is a very interesting period of time that often gets overlooked,鈥� he said. 鈥淚n Indian Territory, you have a lot of different ethnic groups coming together in a complex way. Plus, I grew up there. The people have demonstrated a resiliency and adaptability to change that is important to understand. Being a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma gives you an outlet to connect with the history and culture.鈥� For more information about the Sequoyah National Research Center, contact Erin Fehr at ehfehr@ualr.edu or 501-569-8336. In the upper right photo, the Sequoyah National Research Center has selected four students for its 2018 Native American Student Internship Program. The interns (L to R) include Kevin Briceland, from Southern Methodist University, Courtney Peyketewa, from Oklahoma Central University, Heidi Davis, and Stephanie Rabadeux, both from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. Photo by Ben Krain/糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Communications.听]]>