On behalf of those students we say Nya:weh!

Greetings Everyone,

There’s still time to help us bring in another student. We have worked hard to get two students from each of the schools that our recruiter, Kathy Halbig, has spoken with.  WHY is this so important? Word of mouth is a great tool for recruiting. Students hosted at Promising Futures share what they learn with their friends and family; validating the information shared during the high school visits.  You know the old saying “Seeing is believing”, well it has a great deal of merit.

Please join our current donors and help us accomplish this goal together? A gift of any amount will be a big help.

                        Make a Gift. Make a Difference. It Matters.

                    https://crowdfunding.cornell.edu/promisingfutures   

                           Nya:weh/Thank you for your support!

This is where our undergraduate students find home and form a community.

 Akwe:kon is the first and ONLY American Indian residential program house built on a university campus in the country!

The residents learn about the heritage and histories of the Indigenous Americas and find support from the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP), which is committed to campus-wide education about Indigenous issues, values, and cultures. 

Students visiting for Promising Futures will stay at Akwe:kon and get a glimpse of campus life with a unique cultural lens and focus on Indigenous education!

Nya:weh in all Haudenosaunee/Iroquois languages is a greeting as well as the expression of gratitude. With this rich concept, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program would like to both recognize you and say thank you for making the impact on Native/American youth communities.

Your contribution is more than just a ticket for a flight, it’s an opportunity for a Native / Indigenous student. Promising Futures encourages high school students to academically prepare for Cornell and recognize that they have the ability to attend an Ivy college. It inspires Native youth to think from a different place and actually see themselves as a future Cornell student. One of our Promising Futures attendees, Page,  said this in her admissions application:

“When I visited Cornell, I was lucky enough to speak to faculty at the University, and ask them questions personally. There was a professor that really got to me. Dr. Katja Nowack was one of the reasons I was inspired to apply to Cornell. She described what she was researching in such detail and excitement, I was nothing short of captivated. She was seeing how metals reacted at extremely low temperatures. "Superconductors," she said, explaining what that meant. Dr. Nowack spoke of her research as if it was the most interesting thing in the world, and I believed that it was. I had never seen that much passion. It made me want that. I wanted to have that much passion about what I was learning about. To be surrounded with professors like Dr. Nowack, who would have a passion for not only what they were teaching, but for teaching me.”

For more information on how your donation is helping to make a difference in the lives of Native students, we invite you to visit our website at www.aiisp.cornell.edu, to see the many opportunities that previous Promising Futures’ students are taking advantage of Cornell resources as Cornell student.

Thanks to you two prospective Indigenous student can already board the plane to Cornell!