F.A.Q.

NAU believes that success leaves clues. Native elders have for centuries employed the Mentor / Understudy educational model. For some reason, traditional institutes of higher education have abandoned principles such as Apprenticeship and Mentor / Understudy. One can best learn to ride a bicycle by getting on the bike and riding it rather than reading a book on how to ride a bike.
Instead of bringing the student to a university located in a city of 1,000,000+; we bring the professor to the reservation. This education model also allows the respect and maintenance of their culture, customs, practices and policies of the tribe itself.  "Most universities offer a traditional education; at NAU we offer an education full of tradition."

This educational, hybrid format began 10+ years ago with dedicated, volunteer professors who for no financial gain at all decided to dedicate, from time to time, their professorial expertise to providing live instruction to their student's at their tribal grounds or local reservation.  They did this because they recognized that there was a necessity for "higher education on tribal grounds according to tribal culture, customs, policies, practices and procedures and at no cost to the tribal member or the tribe."                                                                         
NAU will be delivering their educational programs with their School of Agriculture & School of Business in an online / internet / hybrid format coupled with live professor instruction on tribal grounds and according to tribal culture, customs and procedures.      

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"You alone can make your dreams take flight; just consider us your flight school."

This is the best news of all. The tuition is FREE to any qualified tribal student member of a federally recognized tribe. 

Native Peoples have been tilling the land for centuries. It is about time that some university such as NAU offers Associate, Bachelor, and Masters degrees in Agriculture and Business; thus promoting Agri-Business. It should be noted that NAU does not compete with any of the fine Native community colleges or universities already in existence; but rather offers only courses that supplement or enhance Native Peoples higher education. 
In addition, NAU's focus is on the remote, rural, and frontier tribes with no university available to them at all.

Native American University School of Agriculture & Business is the best kept secret in the online / internet education platform. Because of its unique relationship with its educational platform provider, NAU is able to offer more than 76 + courses in Agri - Business containing  2,527 + virtual lessons in the educational disciplines of Agriculture and Business Administration.  Its programs lead to the following degrees from its state approved institution: Associate of Arts - General Studies; Degree; Bachelor of Arts - Agriculture Degree; and Bachelor of Arts - Business Degree. Master of Arts-Native Legal Studies. The purpose of the Masters Degree in Native Legal Studies is to arm the tribe itself with a sufficient understanding of tribal law so as to protect itself from intruders. In addition, the courses / units taken at NAU are transferable to 2,000 + universities in the United States and certain countries abroad. Any prospective student needs to contact NAU Administration for further details.

The answer that our volunteer professors, administrators and staff give is that:
1. The indigenous Peoples of America have been lied to? Every treaty they entered into with a handshake was violated by Congress in writing. And when they resisted, they were labeled "Hostiles", tracked down and killed. At last count, the indigenous tribes have entered into 371 treaties. Guess how many have been broker by the settlor parties? 371.
2. There are 574 federally recognized tribes; yet there are only 36 tribal colleges and universities; with 72% of all federal and foundation funding going to just 11% of the wealthiest tribes. 
3. NAU focuses on the 538 forgotten tribes who reside in smaller numbers on rural, remote and frontier tribal grounds.
4. Let me provide just 2 examples: The Havasupai Tribe is located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Aside from a tourist helicopter and food and supply deliveries, the only access is by Burro and on foot up and down the steep 3 mile mountainside trek. Another example of remote, rural and frontier locations are the 271 federally recognized tribes in Alaska  which has only1 university.  
5. Of the 574 federally recognized tribes, only 3 have tribal colleges and universities leaving the remaining 538 tribes as needing and deserving the same educational opportunities, which is what the focus is on for NAU.
6. Only our state licensed university with its 501(c)(3) approved partner Native American Empowerment Fund [NAEF] are willing to formalize what we have done as volunteers for a decade "gratis" : NAU provides higher education and the same Opportunity to Excel to the most needed tribes in the most rural of areas for the most noble of reasons. Our Mission is to provide its quality hybrid online / live instruction on their tribal grounds according to their tribal customs, culture, policies and procedures; FREE to the tribe and tribal member.
For further details on how to make a tax free donation to Native American Empowerment Fund contact Dr. Roger James Agajanian JD Cell: 949-994-2347  Personal Email: rogeragajanian@gmail.com