On this episode of Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa, host Erik Redix has a conversation with Professor David Beaulieu, the new Ruth A. Myers Endowed Chair in UMD's Education Department, about his research and the future of American Indian Education.
10/20 Ojibwe Stories: Dr. David Beaulieu
Dr. David Beaulieu is the Ruth Myers endowed Chair of American Indian Education at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and an Emeritus Professor of education policy studies at Arizona State University where he served as the Director of the Center for Indian Education. He was a member of the Indian Nations at Risk Task Force and served as Director of the US Office of Indian Education 1997-2001. He was President of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA), serving on the board of NIEA from 2003-2006. He is a former Commissioner of Human Rights for the State of Minnesota. He is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe-White Earth Band.
Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa is produced by KUMD and the Department of American Indian Studies at UMD, with funding provided in part by the UMD College of Education and Human Service Professions, and by The Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.