The buildings at Sitting Bull College are old and inadequate. Our library is small. Our laboratories lack modern equipment. We have no student housing. Yet we have attracted fine teachers, Ph.D. professors for our degree programs and skilled instructors for our trades programs.
We have educated thousands of Native students, and have sent many on to advanced degrees. Our graduates include lawyers, teachers, professors, business people, and even college presidents. Sitting Bull College President Dr. Laurel Vermillion is one of those graduates. We are proud of what we have built here at Sitting Bull College.
Shortly after our name change, we began planning for a new campus. Today, construction is underway. We have raised the first ten million dollars of an ambitious forty million dollar campaign to construct our new campus on a hill overlooking the Missouri River, home to native people for thousands of years.
The new campus will include buildings for academics, administration, a theater, a field house, maintenance and transportation, building trades, a tribal business information and entrepreneurship center, a daycare/early childhood center, a cultural center, family housing units and dormitories, as well as a powwow grounds and campground. Future plans include an aquatics center, a football/track stadium, baseball fields, an assisted living facility and additional student and employee housing.
