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An important goal of a satellite course setting is to attract back into the academic environment and learning processes adults who are high school drop outs and who do not have a GED. Like other colleges around the country, the non-GED student would have an opportunity to attend at least a semester of courses before having to attain his or her GED. The core course work in math or algebra, and English writing and reading, in which initial placement is based on testing scores used to determine only the level of individual student need and placement. These are two core course requirements that could simultaneously prepare the adult student to successfully complete GED requirements by the second semester of college. This opportunity to work from a satellite setting, over a computer at home, would be a strong motivation for high school drop outs to consider the benefits of returning to the academic setting.
Then, on its face, satellite course access is a plan that every level of government should be supportive of. It has proven successful in other tribal communities (Kondro 2006). For the Muckleshoot individual young student, or adult student, the opportunities are unlimited. The contribution to the community in terms of tribal members' success could...
The social benefits in terms of reduced social problems like alcoholism, substance abuse, and breaking the vicious cycle of poverty and its consequences would bring about a more prosperous and healthy Muckleshoot community.
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"Colleges Reach Out to American Indians." Chronicle of Higher Education 53.4 (2006): 36. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. .
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Kondro, Wayne. "Eleven satellite campuses enter orbit of Canadian medical education." CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 175.5 (2006): 461-462. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. .
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Muckleshoot Constitution and Bylaws for the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the Muckleshoot Reservation of Washington (1934). Web. < horpe.ou.edu/IRA/muckcons.html>.
Works Cited
Cooper, Mary H. "Native Americans' Future." CQ Researcher 6.26 (1996): 601-624. CQ Researcher. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher>.
"Colleges Reach Out to American Indians." Chronicle of Higher Education 53.4 (2006): 36. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/>.
Katel, Peter. "American Indians." CQ Researcher 16.16 (2006): 361-384. CQ Researcher. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher>.
Kondro, Wayne. "Eleven satellite campuses enter orbit of Canadian medical education." CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 175.5 (2006): 461-462. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/>.
Martin, Robert G. "Serving American Indian students in tribal colleges: Lessons for mainstream colleges."New Directions for Student Services 109 (2005): 79-86. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/>.
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