2024 TCU Annual Conference

Providing Students with Resources to Achieve Empowerment.
Salish Kootenai College 33rd Annual TCU Conference
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Albuquerque, NM
July 21 – 24, 2024

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Opening session Dinner
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM SIPI Campus

Opening prayer and welcome –
opening prayer?

• Welcome – Dr. Tamarah Pfeiffer, President, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute Dr. Marcia Boyd, US Department of Education, Federal Student Aid
• We have lost leaders from the TCU movement these past two years Lionel Bordeaux, Joe McDonald, Verna Fowler, Louie LaRose, Carol Falcon Chandler, and Bill Wertman,
• Dinner
• Introduce ourselves – (Prize for longest tenured participation and youngest?)

Comments, Dr. Ahinwake Rose, President & CEO AIHEC
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Cheryl Crazy Bull, President & CEO, American Indian College Fund

Housekeeping – start on time, end by 3 each day. Go full day Wednesday. Parking, meals
Opening session speaker

Monday, July 22, 2024

SIPI Campus – Science & Technology Building auditorium

• 8:30 prayer
• Coffee

9:00 AM All in one session Review and discuss the Program Participation Agreement

• What is a PPA?
• That’s just Financial Aid.
• Does not apply to me?

11:00 AM Madelene Bohem

Lunch 12:00 noon to 1:30 PM

1:30 break into various tracks

• Admissions & Registrars – Juan Perez, Salish Kootenai College
• Chief Academic Officers – Koreen Ressler, Sitting Bull College
• Chief Fiscal Officers – Tracey Azure, Turtle Mountain Community College
• Financial Aid – Hogan, Midas, Sinte Gleska University and Jackie Swain, Salish Kootenai College
• Human Resources – Anna Luthens and Kody Murphy, American Indian College Fund
• Security & Housing – Keith Ninemire.

11:00 AM – Scholarship panel?

Monday 1:30 PM

Financial Aid Opening session. This is to be a discussion with everyone.
Panel, Midas, Jackie, Scott, Sylvan, and Carleen

What do you need to know about helping you to administer all financial aid programs? This is very important we want you to feel like you are getting the information to better fun your office.
What do you want or need to learn?
Do you have someone within a TCU you can call?

Anything is open? This is a safe zone.

Scholarship Panel

Tuesday,

8:30 AM What is Partner Connect? What do you do with that?

10:00 AM Title IV audits

• What to expect with an audit?
• Heads up! Document prior year ISIR Flow.
• How many of you see the audit before it is sent to the Department?
• How many have experience an A133 audit?
• What were your findings?
• Document the flow of ISIRS

11:00 AM Not a lot of Verification the last couple of years, why?

• How many of you review and complete verification on your campus?
• Do have a form?
• What is the most difficult questions student have answering?
• What document do students have difficulty in providing for you? Why?

12:00 noon lunch

1:30 PM – Systems Issues?

• Recertification
• Withholding Academic Transcripts

3:00 PM – Who do you communicate within FSA

Wednesday,

8:30 AM – AICF Scholarship coordination

• New System entering data?

9:30 AM – FISAP

11:00 AM – Joe Massman, OPE

• What is the Government structure of OPE and FSA
• Navigating the bureaucracy
• Who to call for what?
• Speaking to a live person?
• Reauthorization

12:00 Noon – lunch

1:30 – Reconciliation

• Best Practices

2:00 PM – Where are my ISIRS

• Tribal Need Analysis. Do tribes understand?

3:00 – Ask a Fed

• Open Q & A’s
• After two days of discussions what did you learn?
• What are you taking home?
• What are your burning issues?

Monday, July 22, 2024

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Welcome, Introductions and Campus Updates

2:00 – 3:00 pm: Leading and Managing an Admission Office – Cassandra Moore Director of Enrollment Development and Admissions and AACRAO President Elect

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

9:00 am – 10:30 am: Round Table Discussions – What’s happening at your campus in regards to enrollment, Do’s and Don’ts, Best Practices, What’s next? Need everyone to assist with planning for next years conference.

10:45 am – 12:00 noon – Ascend

• Session Outcome #1 – Recognize student parents as a key population to increase enrollment and completion at TCUs.
• Session Outcome #2 – Identify tangle steps to begin systemic student parent focused institutional efforts at TCUs.
• Session Outcome #3 – Understand promising practices and lessons learned based on concrete TCU institutional examples.

12:00 noon – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: FERPA Training

Wednesday, July 24th

9:00 am – 10:30 am: Update from AACRAO and Transcript Withholding Regulations

10:45 am – Noon: Good Things to Know When Talking Transfers

Sunday, July 21, 2024

5:00 PM – 9 PM Opening Session/Dinner

• Opening Prayer and Welcome
• Opening session speaker

Monday, July 22, 2024

8:30 AM

• Prayer
• “Review and discuss the Program Participation Agreement
• *Auditor
• *Panel
• *Reactions”
• Lunch

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Grants Management –

• Andrea Christelle, PhD, Vice Provost for Research, Dine’ College

2:30 PM to 2:45 PM Break

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM Operational Budget processes–

• Budget goals, what they are, why have them. Aligning Budgets with strategic or other annual plans. budget tracking.
  Aimee Balthazar, IAIA Controller

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM ISC FTE –

• who can be counted, how is it calculated, dual credit, CEU credits and reporting requirements, Q&A – Dr. Katherine Campbell, BIE

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM Break

9:45 AM – Noon Endowments/investments-

• How to find and hire investment advisor, monitoring performance, unitize endowments. share a spending policy or how to create a spending policy to preserve corpus into perpetuity.
  Charles Freemont, Sovereign Investment Advisors

Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Capital Campaigns tailored to Tribal Colleges

• Tom Allen, retired Oglala Lakota College

2:30 PM – 2:34 PM Break

2:45 pm to 4 pm Continued Capital Campaigns tailored to Tribal Colleges

• Tom Allen, retired Oglala Lakota College

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

8:30 to Break Audit preparation, how to clean up potential problems, Q&A

• TBA

Break

11:00 to Noon Enrollment & Tuition Revenue – Enrollment cliff —

• discussion on how other universities and colleges are handling the changes in enrollment related to their tuition revenue.
• TBA

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Opening Session – TBA

Monday, July 22, 2024

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: HLC & NWACCU updates

2:00 pm -2:15 pm: Break

2:15 to 3:30 pm: HLC & NWACCU breakouts Q&A

3:30 pm -4:00 pm: Review of HLC document on Tribal Colleges & Universities

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

9:00 am – 10:30 am – Koreen Ressler, Program Review versus Program Assessment

10:30 am – 10:45 am – Break

10:45 am – 12:00 noon – Ascend

• Session Outcome #1 – Recognize student parents as a key population to increase enrollment and completion at TCUs.
• Session Outcome #2 – Identify tangle steps to begin systemic student parent focused institutional efforts at TCUs.
• Session Outcome #3 – Understand promising practices and lessons learned based on concrete TCU institutional examples.

12:00 noon – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – Madeline Boehm – Helena MT – Registered Apprenticeship Program Manager

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Break

2:45 pm -4:00 pm – Koreen Ressler – CEU process

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

9:00 am – 10:30 am -Amy Chen – Open education opportunities for TCU leaders

10:30 am – 10:45 am – Break

10:45 am – 12:00 noon – Kristine Sudbeck, Transfer Evaluation System

Monday, 07/22/2024

1:30 – 2:15 pm Ice Breaker/Introductions 

2:30 – 4:00 pm Roundtable 

• HR/OD Hot Topics – an intro roundtable to capstone what is the buzz in HR/OD
  • Talent Acquisition Today
  • Employee Engagement and Quiet Quitting 
  • Compensation and Benefits for today’s work force
  • Open conversation and Q&A

Tuesday, 07/23/2024

9:00 – 10:00 am Compensation Best Practices: Surveys, Studies and all In Between

• SME Speaker Alicia Finley, Director Blue Stone Strategy Group

10:15 – 11:30 am Roundtable 

• Compensation and Benefits Focus
  • Wage Survey and Studies – what, when and why
  • Pay equity
  • Pay increases…COLA, Incentives, and…?
  • What to ask your insurance broker and carrier at renewal and beyond

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch 

12:30 – 2:00 – Wellness Activity

• Michele Justice, President of Personnel Security Consultants 

2:15 – 3:30  Roundtable 

• Employee Wellness
  • Mental health
  • Physical health programs
  • Spiritual health initiatives

3:30 – 4:00 Closing Reflections 

Wednesday, 07/24/2024

9:00 am – 10:15 am Roundtable 

• Workforce Development

• Effective training and development assessments and programs 
• Career pathing and succession planning
• Tribal member career readiness and support

10:30 – 11:30 am –  HR Strategic Planning 

• Tal Moore, Director of Development National Native American Human Resources Association

11:30 am – Noon Final Reflections – Considerations 2025

• How can we stay connected? Network?

Monday, July 22^nd

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM:  Federal Update with James Moore, III, US Department of Education

Tuesday, July 23^rd

8:30 AM  – 10:00 AM:  Clery Geography – On-Campus vs Non-Campus

• The class will explore the differences in reporting Clery crimes on different locations: On-Campus vs Non-Campus areas. 

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM:  Clery Geography Case Studies

• Participants will be split up into 4 or 5 groups to examine case studies involving crimes that take place on-campus vs non-campus locations and the differences in reporting these statistics in your reports.  Timely Warnings will also be addressed in these exercises.

12:00 – 1:00:  Lunch

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM:  Educational Programs required by Institutions Security and Safety, Alcohol and Drug, and Sexual Assault Programs and Campaigns.

• Breakout teams will discuss current ways that they provide these educational courses.

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM:  Break

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM:  Another way to provide Educational Programs:

• Justine Edwards of Vector Solutions will provide a demonstration of using their platform to deliver these programs to your students and staff.  Programs such as:
  • Sexual Assault for Undergraduates
  • Sexual Assault for Community Colleges
  • Consent and Bystander Intervention
  • Alcohol Edu for Colleges
  • Alcohol and Drug Sanctions 
  • Active Shooter: Run, Hide, Fight

Wednesday, July 24^th

8:30 AM – 10:00 PM:  Open Forum:  Questions and Answers with Clery Representatives

10:00 AM -10;30 AM:  Break

10:30 AM – 12:00:  Lessons from recent program reviews – James Moore III

12:00 PM – Adjourn