This center provides support services for Native American graduate students including academic counseling, advocacy, financial services, and publishing opportunities. This program offers Native American students BS and MS degrees in Speech and Hearing Sciences. Graduates are trained to study, prevent and treat the communication disorders of Indians. The program emphasizes the cultural and linguistic influences of tribal languages. Eligible students must be at least in their junior year and be listed on a tribal registry.
Tuition is paid, and monthly stipends are available.
Indian Studies is an academic discipline open to both Native Americans and others. AISP is one of only two programs in the United States which offers a Masters of Arts degree in Indian Studies. The program is over two decades old and has graduated 70 students who have assumed positions of leadership within tribal governments, as well as state and federal agencies. Others have pursued J.D. or Ph.D. programs. The programs are coordinated through Arizona county extension offices and extension offices on the Hopi, San Carlos and Navajo Reservations.