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APRIL 1, 2004 Smoke Sigmais 15 Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's CollegeCareer Fair Tuesday, April 20, 10 a.m. 3 p.m. This is an excellent opportunity to gather information regarding po tential college programs and career fields. Several community, four year and vocational colleges, armed forces and job corporations will be present. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! For more information or questions, please call 503-879-1478. PLACEMENT (ASSET) TESTING Please call Rachel Warner, CollegeCareer Counselor at 503-879-1478, to schedule an appointment to take the ASSET placement test. This test is required before enrolling in some college classes. Next Test Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 2 p.m. f 2004 OLAPC Job & Graduate School Fair The Chiles Center, University of Portland, April 7-8 Do you attend one of these colleges? (Eastern Oregon University, Lewis & Clark College, University of Portland, George Fox Univer sity, Pacific University, Western Oregon University, Linfield College, Reed College or Willamette University) Sign up with your college's career center to attend this event. Meet representatives from busi nesses, organizations, graduate schools and professional programs to talk about career opportunities, internships, summer jobs, and graduate school. Many of the companies and organizations also in terview students for current job openings. Visit the website www.olapcjobfair.org for more information. MedStars Health Careers Honor Program Medstars is an exciting, interactive, three day (July 14-July 17, 2004) residential summer program at OHSU. Activities include working on a research project on a major health condition and presenting with group members, and several hands on lab experiments. MedStars is for stu dents who will be juniors or seniors in high school or freshman entering college next school year (2004-2005), who are interested in pursuing a health career. There are scholarships available for Native American stu dents. Please contact Vaneza Tena at 541-737-8603, or veneza.tenaoregonstate.deu if you are interested. Deadline is April 16, 2004. SAT Deadlines Are Coming Up! Most colleges require this for admissions. Good news! Funding is now available for Tribal members taking the SAT. Please save a receipt to be reimbursed for this. This is effective 1-27-04. You can register for the SAT online at www.collegeboard.com. You will need credit card information to do this. We will also have paper versions of this available if you need one. You will be able to pay with a check using the paper version. We have very limited paper copies, so please access the website if you can. Computers are available at the Educa tion Building as well. If you have any questions please call Rachel Warner, College & Career Counselor at 1-800-422-0232, ext. 1478. Native American Youth Initiative Conference The Association of American Indian Physicians is having a National Native American Youth Initiative Conference to motivate Native Ameri can students to remain in the academic pipeline and to pursue a career in health professions or biomedical research. Eligibility: Native American high school students planning to enter health professions between the ages of 16 through 18 years old are eligible to apply. Students mush have a minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA. If students are chosen to attend, all expenses are paid to go to Washing ton D.C. on June 19-27, 2004. You can contact DeAnna at ext 1659 or Veneza Tena, Oregon Pacific AHEC at 541-737-8603 or on line at www.aaip.comstudentnnayi. Deadline for submission is May 14. INDIAN SUMMER 2004 Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, is proud to announce INDIAN SUMMER 2004, a study, travel and discovery program for law students, practitioners and others interested in studying Indian law. The summer program is a multi-faceted summer intensive that incorporates the best aspects of classroom based learning with many opportunities for the development of practical legal skills. This summer, INDIAN LAW 2004 students may choose from courses in Federal Indian Law, Native Natural Resources, Contemporary Issues in Federal Indian Law and Indian Jurisprudence taught by experts in the field of Indian law from around the country. Students may earn two or three semester hours of credit for each class. The program runs from May 24, 2004 through July 29, 2004 and consist of two five-week course ses sion and a five-day Field Study through Indian Country in the stunning Olympic Peninsula. Students may also earn credit for internships with tribes, Indian law practitioners, government agencies or non-profits orga nizations practicing Indian law in the Portland area. In prior years scholarships to attend the program have been made avail able by generous grants from Oregon Tribes. We anticipate having fund ing for scholarships again this year. Information about scholarships will be posted on our web site if and when they become available. For specific questions and additional materials about the Indian Law Summer Program, please contact, Erin McTaggart 503-768-6740 or email: indianlwlclark.edu or consult our web site at www.law.lclark.edu indianlw. mssm 'ttsmhfintm p arrant m wimims mssmx ce - a a Tylenol Health Scholarship The makers of TYLENOL Family of Products will award ten $10,000 scholarships and 150 $1,000 scholarships for higher education to students who demonstrate leadership in community activities and school activities and major or who intend to major in areas that will lead to careers in health-related fields and are residents of the 50 United States or the Dis trict of Columbia. You may apply for the TYLENOL Scholarship if you will be attending an undergraduate or graduate course of study in the fall 2004 at an ac credited two or four year college, university or vocational-technical school. This includes those students currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate course of study and have one or more years of school remaining. Past winners of the TYLENOL Scholarship are not eligible to apply or win in 20042005. Visit website for an application: http: scholarship.tylenol.com All entries must be post marked by April 30, 2004. Attention Seniors: Graduation day will be here before you know it. The Education Division would like to help you with your college search during your senior year. There are many deadlines for college admissions and scholarship applica tions and you don't want to miss out. We will be planning various campus visits around Oregon state and encourage everyone to participate. If you are wondering what you want to study or where you would like to study after graduation, we would love to help you! To get started contact Rachel Warner, College & Career Counselor, at 503-879-1478. Bachelors' Degree With Tribal Management Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute and New Mexico State Uni versity create a bachelors' degree in general business with a Tribal man agement option. Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute currently offers an associ ates' degree in business administration with an emphasis on Tribal man agement. Beginning Jan 2004, SIPI students will be able to earn half the credits they need for a New Mexico State University bachelor's degree in business administration at SIPI. That would mean SIPI students could transfer up to 66 credit hours in business science and other fields, includ ing 12 hours in Tribal management courses. Then, it is expected that much of the work towards completing the NMSU degree also could be done at SIPI, through SIPI's distance education facilities. For more infor mation contact SIPI at 1-800-586-SIPI or www.sipi.bia.edu.
