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• Expand and update the CCCApply list of AIAN tribes in the AIAN race group

• Enhance the UI in the Race & Ethnicity section to allow user’s to “search and select” up to five AIAN tribes

• Add new “write-in” data field to capture a tribe(s) that doesn’t exist in the updated AIAN list

2024 AIAN Expansion Enhancement

• Expand the list of AIAN tribal affiliations in the Race & Ethnicities section of the CCCApply Standard/Noncredit application:

  • Update/correct the existing list of American Indian/Alaskan Native (AIAN) ethnicities (correct names, remove duplicates, discontinue tribes that are no longer recognized)

  • Add/expand the list of the AIAN ethnicities with the full Federal Register of Indian Entities Recognized into the AIAN ethnicities

  • Implement the ability for students to “write-in” up to 5 tribal names that do not appear in the expanded list

• Enhance the Race & Ethnicities section with new search & select modal for new and existing AIAN ethnicities.:

  • Implement ability for students to search, display, and select multiple AIAN ethnicities from the large expanded list

  • Changes pertain to the AIAN section of the Race/Ethnicity section (race group = 16 = AIAN)

• Update the Race & Ethnicity data fields to include the vast number of AIAN tribes:

  • Maintain all existing <race_ethnic_full> data values in DB, and add & document new values

  • Add new AIAN tribes and codes to the existing <race_ethnic_full> field

  • Add new “write-in” field(s) to DED

  • Minimal changes to existing data fields; minimal impact to colleges is critical

1. Expand and Update the AIAN Tribe List in CCCApply

The American Indian/Alaska Natives race group is one of the upper-level race groups listed in the Race & Ethnicity section in CCCApply. As with the other race groups, the American Indian/Alaska Natives (AIAN) group includes a number of sub-group entities, or ethnicities, that display if the upper-level AIAN group is selected. Prior to this expansion, the AIAN group included over 300 individual entities. Following the expansion, the group includes over 570 individual AIAN options.

Federal Register of Indian Entities Recognized

Updated & Deprecated AIAN Tribes

Part of the expansion implementation includes making some updates to our existing list of AIAN tribes, including updating some of the included updating some existing AIAN tribal names to match the Federal Registry listtheir listing in the federal registry, and deprecating some a few tribes that are no longer recognized by part of the Federal Registry list. The deprecated Deprecated tribes will continue to exist in the CCCApply database, but will no longer display in the new expanded listapplication. In the 2024 Complete CCCApply AIAN Race & Ethnicity List, the names that have been updated are color-coded in orange, and the names that are have been deprecated - , or no longer in use - , are color-coded in yellow.

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Every new AIAN tribe added to CCCApply comes directly from the Federal RegistryRegister of Indian Entities Recognized. Each one entity has been assigned a unique code/value for the Race Ethnicity Full data field code/value <race_ethnic_full>, along with as does every other existing race group ethnicity in CCCApply. The <race_ethnic_full> field is designed to store upwards of 800 individual codes, selecting can store up to 800 comma separated values, optionally selected by the applicant while completing in the Race & Ethnicity section. For more information about the Race & Ethnicity data fields, see Data Fields & Data Delivery section below).

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