Facilitating Factors in Serving Indigenous/Ethnic Minority Peoples

Abstract

The external facilitating factors create favorable political, financial, and social environments for Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and Ethnic Minority-Serving Institutions (EMSIs) to serve American Indian and Alaska Natives and Chinese Ethnic Minorities. Meanwhile, TCUs and EMSIs make concerted efforts to take advantage of their internal facilitating factors to realize their missions. However, TCUs and EMSIs have different emphases on external and internal facilitating factors. In specific, TCUs put more focus on internal facilitating factors because the external ones (like the financial sources) are relatively unreliable. On the contrary, EMSIs emphasize more on the external facilitating factors, especially the government support.