Tribal Colleges

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Tribal Colleges Universities (TCUS)
Exploring Faculty Collegiality
Nora Antoine
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My Positionality
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My interest in collegiality stems from
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Research underpinnings

• Research needs to beof value to
• other TCU faculty and to other TCUs

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Why collegiality matters
Just recently GOOGLE employees made national
headlines because of the high rate of
happiness Fulfilling relationships are valuable

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Why this research is important

• TCUs are very important to their Native
  communities
• Value of Native culture, history and language
• Student access to educational opportunities
• Economic and intellectual contributions

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Gap in the literature

• In a recent dissertation query, of the 120
  dissertations about TCUs, only a handful were
  about faculty
• Of those few about faculty
• NONE ADDRESSED COLLEGIALITY

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CONSTRUCTS OF COLLEGIALITY

• CRR, ILA ILB influences

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COLLEGIALITY CONSTRUCT 1

• JOB SATISFACTION

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COLLEGIALITY CONSTRUCT 2

• IMPORTANCE OF COLLABORATIONS

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COLLEGIALITY CONSTRUCT 3

• Relationships Mentoring

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Research methodology
There are hundreds of ways to approach any
research endeavor...how does one decide?
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Qualitative orientation
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Focus groups
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IRB COMPONENTS

• RESEARCH PROTOCAL
• ETHICS APPLICATIONS
• PARTICIPANT SELECTION PROCESS
• LETTERS OF CONSENT
• CONFIDENTIALITY VS AUTONOMY
• LOCATION

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• PILOT STUDYIRB PROCESS

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Rolling survey

• 2 page survey results will be shared with faculty
  from other TCUs
• What are their insights regarding
• Similarities
• Differences
• Surprises
• Challenging notions
• Ideas
• opportunities

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conclusions

• Positionality transparency
• Introduction to TCUs and TCU Faculty
• Literature Review
• Methodology
• Next Steps

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Pilamaya ye