The 1994 Land Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges and Universities)

December 3, 2006

John L. Phillips

Introduction to the 1994 Land Grants

Tribal College Land Grant Status: Why Important?

• The Potential– To meet the needs of your communities– To increase the capacity of your institution– $26 million of funding in FY05

• The Network– of over 100 higher education institutions– of federal, state, and local governments– of the international academic community

What is a “Land Grant” institution?

• A designation by Congress that establishes a formal relationship between the federal government (USDA) and a college or university….

• To support activities (research, education, and extension) related to the agricultural and family sciences…..

• With the proceeds from Federal grants of land or their equivalent (tribal college endowment fund).

A brief history of “Land Grant”

• First Morrill Act of 1862

• Second Morrill Act of 1890

• The US Territories and the U. of the District of Columbia

• The Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994

• White Earth, Saginaw Chippewa, Tohono O’odham

Tribal College Land Grant authorized grant programs

• Equity: $2.2M in FY06 (about $60,000/yr/college)

• Endowment: $12M added in FY06 (interest yield from about $77M principal about $2.1M)

– formula calculated

• Extension: $3.3M in FY06– Increasing Capacity (Base) Program ($80,000/yr/college)– Special Emphasis ($100,000/3yr)

• Research: $1M in FY06–two-year grant cycle; $150,000/3yr grants

• Capacity Building - never appropriated

• Rural Development Community Facilities Grants - $4.5M in FY06 (approx. $300,000 max. per year per college)

Tribal College Land Grant Extension Programs

• Youth Development

• Natural Resources

• Nutrition, Diet, and Health

• Economic Development

Tribal College Land Grant Education Programs

• Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

• Nutrition, Diet, and Health

• Animal Sciences

• Technology

Tribal College Land Grant Research Programs

• Natural Resources / Environmental Sciences

• Water Quality • Range Management• Watershed Management• Native Plants

• Nutrition, Diet, and Health

• Animal Sciences

AIHEC Land Grant Organizational Structure

• Land Grant Department within the TCU?

• AIHEC Land Grant Subcommittee reporting to AIHEC Federal Programs Committee

• USDA/AIHEC Leadership Group

• National Association of State Universities & Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)

• FALCON (First Americans Land-grant College & Organization Network), a Tribal College Land Grant Professionals Association

USDA’s Organizational Points of Interest

• Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES)

Partners with Land Grant and higher education systems Administers Equity, Extension, Research & Endowment

• Rural Development Administers the community facilities program

• Office of Civil Rights Director of 1994 programs Supports USDA/AIHEC Leadership Group Developing 1994 Scholars Program

• Forest Service

• National Agricultural Library

• Others: Food & Nutrition Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, Agricultural Research Service, Economic Research Service, etc.