Ward - Native Americans in the School System

Carol J. Ward grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and attended North Texas State University for her bachelor of arts degree and master of arts degree in sociology. After receiving her masters degree she went to Washington, D.C., where she worked for the Administration for Native Americans (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) for five years as a research specialist. Carol then moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where she worked for Native American Research Associates. She entered the PhD program at the University of Kansas but transferred to the PhD program at the University of Chicago and finished there in 1992. About this same time Carol started her own consulting business working with Indian tribes and organizations. She moved from Chicago to Lame Deer, Montana, in 1987 to work at Chief Dull Knife College, the tribal community college of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe of southeastern Montana. There she was the director of research and a member of the faculty. It was at Dull Knife that Carol completed a study of American Indian school completion. In 1990 she joined the sociology faculty at Brigham Young University. She has continued to work with Dull Knife on many different projects and to conduct research on education issues, recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, the effects of welfare reform, and food assistance programs. She teaches classes in racial and ethnic relations, sociology of education, sociology of rural communities, qualitative methods, and survey methods.

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