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AISES 2013 National Conference

Denver, Colorado

Summary Report

AISES 2013 National Conference Data Report – November, 2013

Summary and Highlights Held in Denver, CO from October 31 – November 2, 2013, AISES 35th annual National Conference was themed “Elevate.”

The conference featured customary events such as:

• Caucus and constituent meetings

• Closing circle

• Ely S. Parker Award ceremony

• Largest Career Fair in Indian Country

• Professional members dinner

• Professional of the Year awards

• Research presentations for high school juniors and seniors, college students and graduate students,

• Resume resource room

• Sequoyah Fellows breakfast

• Sponsors reception

• Student awards and recognition ceremony

• Women’s and Men’s talking circles

• Pow wow and traditional marketplace

• Over 50 learning sessions selected by an external committee and organized by tracks

• The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Nancy Jackson – manager of the International Chemical Threat Reduction

Department in the Global Security Center at Sandia National Laboratories

Special this year: • Four Campus Tours over two days

• Gemstone Reception that honored ALL conference sponsors

• Return of the Plenary Session

• 1st annual AISES Ignite Session


Revenue Overall 2013 National Conference reached 80% of the budgeted income projection, at $929,210 total income. The total

budget projection was $1,158,275.

Overall Revenue goals were not met: large shortfalls in Sponsorships; More (3/4) Non-profit booths ($800) where sold then

corporate (1/4) booths ($1,900); Many exhibitors partnered and shared booths this year; Attendee (Registration Fee

Increase) and Marketplace revenue experienced increases this year.

Historical information: 2010 and 2011 where AISES National Conference best years for Revenue and Attendance.

Revenue Type 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Exhibitors $217,125 $183,325 $201,300 $253,825 $150,595 $158,950

Sponsors $85,000 $70,000 $80,600 $122,800 $66,000 $32,200

Sponsor & Exhibitor $505,300 $486,650 $622,625 $670,050 $595,350 $551,650

Marketplace $1,400 $2,400 $2,600 $3,200 $4,000 $5,250

Attendees $159,690 $120,807 $192,502 $163,950 $177,032 $186,160

Comped Booths 0 5

Total $970,140 $863,232 $1,112,627 $1,196,825 $992,377 $934, 210

Attendance 2013 National Conference attendance fell short of goal. Seeing noticeable shortfalls in Exhibitors/Sponsors and High

School Students.

Registrant Type 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Professionals 125 134 192 197 168 162

College Students 399 443 510 565 621 509

HS Students & Chaperones

230 252 328 195 175 182

Educators & Judges

64 142 52 Assessed differently in registration; 8 judges in

2011

76 65

Exhibitors/Sponsors 600 538 567 566 436 463

Speakers 99 98 62 50 67 63

Other 84 55 70 70 15 21

Comped Registrations

5 25 (not in count)

Total 1601 1435 1781 1651 1563 1481

Attendee Demographics: Students vs. Professionals The 2013 National Conference reported the following breakdown of students and professionals, the latter including exhibitors, many of whom participate in conference activity outside of the Career Fair. Professional - 53% Breakdown of Professionals: STEM Professional – 17% Educator – 13% Other Professional- 23% Student - 47%


Attendee Demographics: Attendee Type The 2013 National Conference reported the following breakdown of attendee type:

Demographic Statistics: Current College Level Among current students, registrants for the 2013 National Conference were invited to indicate their level of study pursued at present, for statistical purposes. 512 total responses were collected.

Undergrad – 87% Of which are made up of:

Freshman – 13% Sophomore – 27% Junior-26% Senior – 33% Other – 1%

Master's – 8% Doctorate – 5% Post-Doc - 0%

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Demographic Statistics: Gender The 2013 National Conference reported near-parity in gender of participants

Male - 47% Female - 53%

Demographic Statistics: Race and Ethnicity For the 2013 National Conference we invited registrants to provide detailed demographic information. This information was not mandatory.

Indigenous – 68% Breakdown of Indigenous: American Indian – 64% Alaska Native - 2% First Nation – 1% Native Hawaiian – 1% White – 13% Prefer not to answer – 6% Black/African-American – 3% Hispanic/Latino – 3% Asian – 2% Other – 4%

Demographic Statistics: STEM Interest

Registrants for the 2013 National Conference were invited to provide STEM interest (area of study or interest) for statistical purposes. Of the 1474 total declarations of STEM interest collected, the percentages were as follows: Science – 25% Technology – 7% Engineering – 27% Math – 3% Health Sciences – 9% Other STEM-related – 6% Non-STEM – 22%

How Did You Hear about AISES NC

Registrants for the 2013 National Conference were invited to provide STEM interest (area of study or interest) for statistical purposes. Of the 1474 total declarations of STEM interest collected, the percentages were as follows: Facebook – >1% Email – >1% School – 41% Tribe – 8% Place of Employment – 21% Friend/Colleague – 15% Community Organization – 6% Other – 9%

Demographic Statistics: Regional Representation The breakdown among all participants by region is as follows:

Region 1: Northwest – 11% Region 2: West – 8% Region 3: Southwest – 39% Region 4: South Central – 7%

Region 5: Upper Midwest – 17% Region 6: Northeast – 8% Region 7: Southeast – 9%

Tribal Representation The 2013 National Conference also queried participants for their tribal affiliation. This was not a mandatory question.

Tribal Affiliation for all participants, where stated as:

Absentee Shawnee 1 Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma 1 Acjachemen 1 Acjachemen - Juaneno Band of Mission Indians 1 Acoma Pueblo 4 Ahtna/Doyon 1 Aleknagik Natives Limited 1 Apache 2 Apache Tribe of Oklahoma 1 Aquinnah Wampanoag 2 Arikara 1 Arikara & Menominee 1 Athabascan 2 Blackfeet 15 Blackfeet/ Haida-Tlingit 1 Blackfeet/Cherokee 1 Bois Forte 1 Bois Forte Band of Chippewa 2 Brothertown 2 Caddo Nation of Oklahoma 1 Canoncito Band of Navajo 1 Catawba Indian Nation 1 Chappaquiddick Wampanoag 1 Cherokee 38 Cherokee and Shawnee 1 Cherokee Nation 11 Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama 1 Cherokee, Choctaw 1 Cherokee/ Pawnee 1 Cherokee/African American 1 Cherokee/Native Hawaiian 1 Cherokee/Shawnee 1 Chevak Village 1 Cheyenne & Arapaho 2 Cheyenne River Sioux 9 Chickahominy Tribe 1 Chickasaw 8 Chimichanga Nation 1 Chippewa 3 Chippewa Cree 2 Choctaw 14 Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma 5 Choctaw/Delaware 1 Choctaw-Apache of Ebarb 1 CIRI 1 Citizen Nation Potawotomi 4 Clarks Point Village Council 1 Coharie 1 Colorado River 1 Colville 1 Comanche 2

Comanche - Numunu 1 Conf Tribes of Warm Springs 1 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde 1 Cook Inlet Tribal Council 1 Coquille Indian Tribe 1 Coweessess First Nation 3 Cree/Lakota 1 Creek 1 Crow 14 Crow Creek Sioux Tribe 1 Crow, N. Cheyenne, Blackfoot 1 Crow/Blackfeet 1 Dakota/Arapaho 1 Delaware Western Oklahoma 1 Diné/Navajo 221 Doyon, K'oyitl'ots'ina 1 Dry Creek Rancheria 1 Eastern Band Cherokee 7 Euchee, Menominee 1 First Nation 1 Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 1 Fond du Lac Ojibwe 1 Fort Peck Assiniboine 1 Gila River 4 Gila River Akimal O'odham 1 Gila River Indian Community 2 Gila River Pima 3 Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians 2 Haida 1 Haliwa-Saponi 3 Hannahville Potawatomi 2 Ho Chunk Nation 2 Hopi 10 Hunkpati Dakota 1 Ihanktonwan Band of the Dakota/Nakota/ Lakota Nation of South Dakota 1 Indian 1 Inupiaq 4 Inupiaq of Barrow, AK 1 Inupiat 3 Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico 1 Isleta Pueblo/Navajo 1 Jemez Pueblo 3 Jicarilla & Mescalero Apache 1 Jicarilla Apache 1 Kahnawake Mohawk 1 Kaibab Paiute 1 Kalinago Carib 2 Kashunamiut Tribe 1 Kaw 2 Kenaitize 1 Kewa Pueblo 1 Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma 1 Kiowa 1 Klahoose First Nations of Canada 1 Klamath Tribes 2 Knik 1


Kootenai 2 Lac Courte Oreilles 1 Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe 2 Lac Courte Orielles 1 Laguna Pueblo 2 Laguna Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo, Navajo 1 Laguna/Navajo 1 Lake Superior Chippewa (Fond du Lac Band) 1 Lakota 6 Lakota Sioux 1 Lakota/Ogalala Sioux 1 Lenape 2 Lenape (Delaware) 1 Lenape, Lakota, and Northern Cheyenne 1 Little River Band of Ottawa Indians 2 Little Travers Bay Band of Odawa Indians 1 Lower Brule Sioux and Blackfeet 1 Lumbee 20 Lumbee/Coharie 1 Lumbee/Oglala Sioux 1 Lumbee/Tuscarora 1 Lummi and Quinault 1 Maidu - Mooretown Rancheria 1 Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation 2 Mekoryuk Native Village 1 Menominee 16 Menominee & Navajo 1 Menominee and Three affiliated Tribes 1 Mescalero Apache 1 Mescalero Apache & Comanche 1 Mescalero Apache Tribe 2 Metis 1 Mewuk 2 Miccosukee 1 Minnesota Chippewa Tribe 1 Miqmak, Cherokee 1 Mississippi Choctaw 2 Mohawk 11 Mohegan 1 Morongo Band of Serrano Indians 1 Muckleshoot 9 Muscogee 4 Muskogee Creek/Yuchi 1 Nambe Pueblo 1 Native Hawaiian 1 Native Village of Afognak 1 Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government 1 Native Village of Unalakleet 1 Nez Perce 2 NiMiiPuu (Nez Perce) 2 Northern Arapaho 1 Northern Cheyenne 1 Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi 1 Oglala Lakota 17 Ojibwa 1 Ojibway 1 Ojibwe 4 Ojibwe/Chippewa - White Earth Nation 2

Oklahoma Band Choctaw 1 Oklahoma Cherokee 1 Oklahoma Choctaw & Cheyenee River Sioux 1 OMAA - the Woodland Métis Tribe 1 Omaha 1 Omaha, Crow Creek Sioux 1 Oneida 7 Oneida & Navajo 1 Oneida Nation of Wisconsin 1 Oneida of New York 1 Oneida of the Thames 1 Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin 2 Onondaga 5 Onondaga Nation 1 Osage 5 Pala Band of Mission Indians 1 Passamaqouddy 1 Pawnee 3 Peguis First Nation 7 Pend d'Oreille 1 Penobscot 1 Peublo of Laguna 1 Picuris Pueblo 1 Pilot Station Traditional Council 1 Pima 2 Piscataway 6 Piscataway-Conoy 1 Poarch Bank of Creek Indians 1 Potawatomi 1 Potowatomi - Citizen Band 1 Prairie Band Potawatomi 1 Pueblo of Acoma 2 Pueblo of Acoma (New Mexico) and Hopi Tribe (Arizona) Pueblo of Zuni 1 Puyallup 1 Pyramid Lake Paiute 2 Quapaw, San Juan Pueblo, Taos Pueblo 1 Quapaw/Pawnee 1 Quartz Valley Indian Reservation 2 Quileute 1 Quinault Indian Nation 3 Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 1 Red Cliff Ojibwe 3 Red Lake Band of Chippewa 1 Red Lake Nation 1 Red Lake Ojibwe 2 Rosebud Lakota 2 Rosebud Oyate Lakota 1 Rosebud Sioux Tribe 12 Round Valley Indian Tribes 3 Sac & Fox of OK 1 Saginaw Chippewa 1 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe 1 Salish/Northern Cheyenne 1 Samish 1 San Carlos Apache 1 San Carlos Apache Tribe 1 San Felipe Pueblo 3


San Juan Pueblo 2 Santa Clara Pueblo 1 Santa Rosa County Creek Indian Tribe 1 Santo Domingo 2 Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians 1 Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians 1 Sealaska 1 Seminole Cherokee 1 Seminole Nation 1 Seminole Nation of Oklahoma 1 Senaca-Cayuga 1 Seneca 6 Seneca Nation of Indians 2 Seneca-Cayuga 1 Seton Lake Indian Band 1 Shinnecock 1 Shoshone Paiute 4 Shoshone-Bannock 1 Sicangu Lakota 2 Sicangu Lakota/Mattinecock 1 Sicangu Lakota/Navajo 1 Siginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan 1 Siksika Nation 1 Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate 4 Six Nations of the Grand River 1 Six Nations Upper Cayuga 1 SLT 2 Southeastern Cherokee 1 Spirit Lake Nation 2 Spokane Tribe 2 St. Croix Ojibwe 1 St. Regis Mohawk Tribe 9 Standing Rock Sioux Tribe 6 Stockbridge-Munsee 6 Taíno (Borikén) 1 Taos Pueblo 2 Taos Pueblo/Navajo 1 Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone 1 Te-Moak Western Shoshone 1 Three Affiliated Tribes 3 Tiwa, Yaqui, and Ojibwe 1 Tlingit 2 Tlingit & Haida Tribes of Alaska 1 Tohono O'odham 5 Tonawanda Seneca 1 Tongva 1 Tsimshian 2 Tule River Band of Yokuts 1 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa 18 Umatilla/Coeur d Alene 1 Unangan 1 Unangax 1 United Keetowah Band 1 Ute Mountain Ute Tribe 3 Waccamaw Siouan 1 Warm Springs, Yakama 1

Western Shoshone Te-Moak 1 White Earth Nation 4 White Earth Nation, Anishinaabe 1 White Earth Ojibwe 3 Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska 3 Winnemem Wintu 1 Wuskwi Sipihk Swampy Cree 1 Wyandotte 1 Yakama 4 Yakama/Navajo 1 Yankton and Chicksaw 1 Yavapai-Apache Nation 1 Yurok Tribe 5 Zapotec 1 Zuni 2 Zuni Pueblo 3 Zuni Pueblo/Mescalero Apache 1 Zuni/Navajo 1

Thank You to our Sponsors

3M

AISES Publishing, Inc.

American Chemical

Society

BLM

BNSF Railway

Boeing

Central Intelligence

Agency

Chevron

Choctaw Nation of

Oklahoma

Chrysler

CHS Foundation

Colorado School of

Mines

Department of

Defense

Department of Energy

ExxonMobil

General Motors

Goldman Sachs

Goodyear

Google

IBM

Intel

Kellogg's

Lockheed Martin

Merck

Microsoft

NASA

NAVSEA/NAVAIR/

SPAWAR/NAVFAC

Navy

NOAA

Northrop Grumman

NOVA Corporation

Raytheon

Salt River Project

University of Phoenix

URS Corporation

US Army Corps of

Engineers

USDA NRCS

USDA-ARS

(bold indicates Gemstone sponsor)


Survey Summary Data AISES received 111 attendee survey responses, wherein 88.5% of respondents rated the National

Conference at a 4 (38.1%) or 5 (50.4%) on a scale from one to five, where five is the best rating.

In addition to scored questions, there was an opportunity to leave comments, which on the

vast majority were positive.

Speaker session results are sent separately and are provided directly to each speaker,

along with narrative comments, if they are provided.

List of Exhibitors and Marketplace Vendors EXHIBITORS

Society of American Indian Government Employees

3M Corporation

Accenture

AISES Publishing, Inc.

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

American Chemical Society

American Indian College Fund

American Indian Graduate Center

American Indian Program - New Mexico State University

Arizona Public Service (APS)

Ball Aerospace

Bank of America, Merrill Lynch

Barrick Gold of North America

Be An Actuary

Berkeley Lab

BHP Billiton New Mexico Coal

BNSF Railway

BP Americas

Bristol Bay Native Corporation




Bureau of Indian Affairs

California Institute of Technology

Capitol College

Center of American Indian and Minority Health

Central Intelligence Agency

Cherokee Nation

Chevron

Chrysler Group LLC

Colorado School of Mines Graduate School

Columbia University

Computing Research Association

Cornell University

Defense Contract Management Agency

Department of the Interior

DHHS/NIH/NIAID

Division of Energy & Mineral Development

Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment

GE

GE Aviation

General Motors

Goldman Sachs

Gonzaga University Graduate School of Business

Google

Harvard School of Public Health

Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

IBM

Illinois Institute of Technology

Indians into Medicine

INRSEP

Institute of Environmental Health,

Oregon Health & Science University

Intel

Intertribal Timber Council

Int'l Union of Forest Research Organizations

Iowa State University College of Engineering

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Kellogg Company

LIGO

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Merck

Michigan State University

Microsoft

MIRTHE Center

Montana State University

Montana Tech at Butte

Mortenson Construction

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center


National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)

National Institutes of Health/NIDDK

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Research Council of the National Academies

National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation (ASEE)

National Security Agency

Natural Resources Conservation Service-USDA

Navajo Agricultural Products Industry

Navajo Generating Station

Navajo Tribal Utility Authority

NAVSEA/NAVAIR/SPAWAR/NAVFAC

New Mexico Tech

NIST

NOAA - Boulder

NOAA- Office of Education

North Carolina State

Northeastern University

Northrop Grumman

Northwest Indian College

NOVA Corporation

NSF Engineering Research Centers

NSTA

Oak Ridge Associated Universities

Oklahoma State University

Organization for Tropical Studies

Peace Corps

Pennsylvania State University

Princeton University - The Graduate School

Procter & Gamble

Purdue University Native American Educational and Cultural Center

Raytheon Company

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rochester Institute of Technology

Sanford Research

SMART Scholarship Program

Society of American Indian Government Employees

Society of Women Engineers

Stanford University School of Earth Sciences

Student Conservation Association

Teach For America

The Boeing Company

The Ohio State University

The Public Health Sciences Institute - (PHSI)

The Scripps Research Institute

U.S. Navy

UC Berkeley, American Indian Graduate Program

UND/ Seven Generations Center of Excellence

United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. (UNITY)

United States Air Force Academy

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/National Center for Atmospheric Research/UCP

University of Arkansas Graduate School

University of California, Berkeley-Undergraduate Admission

University of California, Davis

University of Colorado - Skaggs School of Pharmacy

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

University of Colorado Denver|Anschutz Medical Campus

University of Denver

University of Illinois at Chicago Graduate College

University of Illinois Graduate College

University of Kansas School of Engineering

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota, Morris

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

University of New Mexico

University of North Carolina at Pembroke

University of Notre Dame

University of Phoenix

University of Rhode Island

University of Rochester

University of Utah

University of Washington - JISAO

University of Wisconsin Law School

URS Corporation

US Army Corps of Engineers

US Department of State

US Environmental Protection Agency

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

US Coast Guard Academy

US Coast Guard Recruiting Office Denver

USDA APHIS

USDA FS Forest Products Laboratory

USDA, Food Safety & Inspection Service

UW- School of Medicine- Center for Equity

Diversity & Inclusion

UW/Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center

UWSMPH

VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine

VMware

Washington Internships for Native Students (WINS)

Washington State University

Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium

Yale School of Forestry & Environ. Studies

Yale University Office of Undergraduate Admissions

MARKETPLACE

Apishipa Edge

Arts & Crafts

Arts & Crafts Marie Yellowhawk

Bessie Sherwood

Bilagody Arts & Crafts


Duke & Daisy Jewelry

Dineh Designs

Dukepoo Fine Arts

H&D Jewelry

Handmade American Indian Cloth Dolls

Hatahlie Arts & Crafts

Indian Arts & Crafts

Muscogee (Creek)

Navajo Jewelry and Crafts

Notah Indian Arts

Notah's Southwest Connection

Peach Blossom Art

Rez Roz Creations

Shan's Indian Art

Southwest Indian Jewelry

2014 AISES National Conference

November 13-15, 2014

Orlando, FL

Caribe Royale Resort and Convention Center

Stay tuned for more information. We hope to see you there!

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