 | STACY PHELPS
Chief Executive Officer – American Indian Institute for Innovation
As a Founder of the American Indian Institute for Innovation, Stacy has been actively involved in successfully developing and implementing solutions focused on increasing the success rate of students graduating from high school and continuing onto post secondary opportunities. Since 1992 Stacy Phelps, AIII Chief Executive Officer has been directing programs that reverse the tragic legacy of failure in education for American Indians. Between 1996 and 2008, Mr. Phelps served as a Program Director, Principal Investigator and Co-Chair of the Math/Science Department at Oglala Lakota College (OLC), Stacy has written, directed, or managed over $35 million in projects directly targeted at increasing the number of American Indian students that attend college and increasing the number of American Indian professional in STEM disciplines.
During his 12 year tenure Mr. Phelps served as the Project Director and Principal Investigator that managed a consortium of five Tribal Colleges and Universities in South and North Dakota. The consortium focused on developing bachelors level degree opportunities in STEM for American Indians at TCUs. At the conclusion of this endeavor the TCU partners had flourished. Three STEM research centers were constructed on reservations at the TCU's, the development of the first EPA certified Analytical Testing Lab occurred at OLC, over 10 new STEM degree programs to serve Tribal students were implemented, over new 20 classroom facilities to support STEM education were constructed, a 17 site multi-state distance education network was created, and over 50 new reservation based STEM professionals in Tribal communities were graduated from a new established pipeline at the TCU's |
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