Native students have the highest dropout rates and the lowest college completion rates of any ethnic group in the country. Antioch's Center for Native Education (CNE) is dedicated to changing this reality and improving academic success for Native Americans in culturally relevant ways. Establishing Early College High Schools for Native Youth (ECNY) is one of the CNE's current national initiatives. Such schools seek remarkable results. Up to 5,000 Native students will attend these schools across the country by 2008. Through ECNY, Antioch seeks to increase dramatically the high school and college achievement rates of Native American students. The Center's goal is to make college achievement the norm for Native people in a single generation.

More information can be found at www.antiochseattle.edu/about/cne/index.html.