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Mission

Navajo Technical College is committed to offering quality technical, vocational and academic
degrees and community education in a student-oriented, hand-on learning environment based on
the Diné Philosophy of Education: Nitsáhákees, Nahátáh, Iína, Sihasin.

Vision

The vision of Navajo Technical College is to educate Navajo individuals; to utilize state-of-the-art
technology; and to enhance the desirable character traits of integrity, self-discipline, loyalty,
and respect, which give the Navajo people hope, courage, and the resiliency essential to their
survival as a people, using the strengths inherent in the Navajo cultural values and traditions.

Philosophy

Navajo Technical College believes that every student has the innate ability and intelligence to
learn and acquire technical skills. Students have knowledge about their abilities and skills to
enhance their personal, social, economic and cultural values. A disciplined learning environment,
with innovative and viable community-based academic and vocational curricula, will produce a
competent, educated, and self-reliant participant of the Navajo Nation in the world of work.

Goals

The goals of Navajo Technical College are as follows:
•To offer a quality education, associate degrees, certificates, and community education
•To provide students with a higher learning, nondiscriminatory environment
•To serve as a catalyst for academic progress on the Navajo Nation
•To establish relationships with other institutions of higher learning



Navajo Technical College is fully accredited by the North Central Association Higher Learning Commission as of 2005 to present

http://www.ncahlc.org

Navajo Technical College
P. O. Box 849
Crownpoint, NM 87313-084

President: Dr. Elmer J. Guy

Name change notes: Crownpoint Institute of Technology to Navajo Technical College (11/3/06)

HLC Institution ID: 2828
Current Accreditation Status: Accredited
Candidacy Date(s): (2003- .)
Accreditation Date(s): (2005- .)
Commission Participation: PEAQ PARTICIPANT

Year of Last PEAQ Comprehensive Evaluation: 2004 - 2005
Year of Next PEAQ Comprehensive Evaluation: 2009 - 2010

Last Action: 09/04/2008

Legal Status: Public
Degrees Awarded (details below): A

Navajo Technical College History

Today, in the high-tech, high-speed twenty-first century, the magnificent high desert country of
the Navajo Nation remains largely unknown to the rest of the world. Remote, mysterious, and
unspoiled by the wider society that surrounds it, the Navajo culture not only survives, but
flourishes. Since the desperate days of the Long Walk, a century and a half ago, when the
possibility of extinction loomed above us, the Navajo population has grown to become the
largest American Indian Nation in the United States. Now numbering some 300,000, our
population is young and proud, and is ambitious in its desire to preserve its heritage and to meet
the challenges of a world in which change is the only constant. The Navajo language is
recognized by the Modern Language Association as one of the 30 major non-English languages
spoken in the United States today.
There are many reasons for the Navajo’s triumph against high odds: intelligence, tenacity, strong
families, and a close connection with the earth and its creatures, but something else was needed
— an alchemy that would transform these separate qualities into a unified whole.
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