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Leech Lake Tribal College; Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College; The 1862 land grant was originally provided in 1865 to a fledgling state agricultural college in Glencoe, Minnesota, [15] but was re-appropriated to the University of Minnesota by an act of the Legislature on February 18, 1868.
Paul Boyer founded the journal after traveling among tribal colleges for a study, and realizing there was no central forum for them to share information about their programs. On November 14, 1989, the tribal college presidents on the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) board passed a motion to support the journal with $15,000 to ...
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) was an extension agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), part of the executive branch of the federal government. The 1994 Department Reorganization Act, passed by Congress, created CSREES by combining the former Cooperative State Research Service and the ...
Bacone College, Muskogee (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) Carl Albert State College, Poteau (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, Weatherford (defunct) College of the Muscogee Nation, Okmulgee; Comanche Nation College, Lawton (defunct)
Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862: Long title: An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Nicknames: Morrill Act of 1862: Enacted by: the 37th United States Congress: Effective: July 2, 1862: Citations; Public law ...
The organization offers technical assistance to its member colleges and develops institutions, and leads efforts to promote the Tribal College Movement. In 1989, AIHEC established the American Indian College Fund (AICF) to raise scholarship funds for American Indian students at qualified tribal colleges and universities.
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College (SCTC) is a public tribal land-grant community college in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States. [1] [2] The college was established in 1998 by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Committee. The Isabella Reservation and the greater Mount Pleasant area are its chief service areas; the Saganing Reservation is secondary. [3]
Since the first tribal college was established in 1968, the number of tribal colleges and universities has grown to 37 in the United States in 2016. According to the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, TCUs are chartered by their respective tribal governments, including the ten tribes within the largest reservations in the United ...