News • Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Arizona Summer Wildcat • 3
AIS joins SBS as new department
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APRIL BOND, a graduate student in American Indian Studies, reviews an article with her summer class, American Indians in Film, on Tuesday in the Harvill building. AIS is now a department within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
interact with the other departments within SBS in areas of research such as the School Arizona Summer Wildcat of Anthropology, the department of history The American Indian Studies program and, most recently, the department of is now becoming a department within the English, Jones said. “If you look at the individual faculty that College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The UA has offered graduate-level degrees is in the [AIS] unit, SBS is the right place for in AIS, and, now that it has become a them,” he said. Zepeda also said she believes that within department, plans to offer an undergraduate bachelor’s degree in the field, said Ofelia SBS, more opportunities will open up for Zepeda, a linguistics regents’ professor who faculty and students in AIS. “I anticipate that there’ll be more is the acting head of the AIS department. Zepeda’s area of research within linguistics collaboration across different departments with AIS with research activities, service is American Indian languages. activities and events,” she AIS has been said. available as a minor for AIS has a history of undergraduate students, If you look at working with tribal but as a department, the individual communities in Arizona and it now moves from the faculty ... SBS throughout the Southwest Office of the Senior Vice is the right and the addition of the President for Research place for them bachelor’s degree in the to SBS. As a part of SBS, — John Paul Jones III, field will help to expand AIS will act more as an dean of SBS the UA’s work with them, academic unit, said John said Karen Francis-Begay, Paul Jones III, dean of assistant vice president for SBS. tribal relations. Francis“[The Office of the Senior VP for Research] was not the best Begay keeps tribal communities informed place for the unit that operates like an of what’s happening at the UA. “[The addition of the AIS department] academic unit with a large number of will bridge our connection with the tribal bachelor’s courses,” Jones said. He said the change to SBS is an community far sooner than waiting for administrative change and there will be no students to get to graduate level studies,” new costs associated with the move. AIS Francis-Begay said. She said the AIS program has customized will also remain in its current offices in the Harvill building. AIS, 4 AIS will now have greater opportunity to BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY
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