<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/spring-2019/bringing-tribal-communities-online.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Bringing Tribal Communities Online</title><excerpt>Morgan Vigil Hayes ’12 decided to attend Westmont after talking to professors Kim Kihlstrom and Wayne Iba in a chat room. “I fell in love with their vision for computer science as a way to serve others,” she says. During her doctoral studies at UC Santa Barbara and now as an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University (NAU), she has pursued projects that extend internet access to remote areas. She chose NAU because it values both teaching and research and seeks to serve first-generation and Native American students.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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