American Indian Advisory Council

Those who founded the American Indian Advisory Council at UW-Madison in 1994 desire the council to grow and thrive upon the spiritual strengths and ideals of all American Indian peoples. We encourage all tribes throughout the region to share their bounty of values, skills, financial resources, and students in following those first few alumni who so softly bent the grass before us. for our next seven generations yet to come.

The AIAC meets quarterly to carry out our work. We promote American Indian education by providing financial assistance to AmericanIndian students with unmet or emergency needs at UW-Madison, and we advocate American Indian students' participation in university affairs, as well as their access to, and utilization of, the UW System's resources.

Since 1861, WAA has provided a lifelong link between alumni and the university. Now WAA and the AIAC are actively seeking to represent the full spectrum of UW-Madison's global community.

The AIAC challenges itself to use creative, innovative, and community-inspired programs to assist American Indian students in preserving their diverse cultural values while successfully initiating and obtaining their individual educational goals.

Your voice, thoughts, and energy inspire the vision of WAA, and each individual's input is vital to the success of the university's multicultural initiatives. Most importantly, your participation can become an inspiration to those as yet unknown, who aspire to follow in your footsteps.