The 1994 Land Grant Institutions Tribal Colleges and Universities

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The 1994 Land Grant Institutions (Tribal
Colleges and Universities)
Introduction to the 1994 Land Grants
December 3, 2006 John L. Phillips
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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

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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).

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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 Oodham

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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)

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Tribal College Land Grant Extension Programs

• Youth Development
• Natural Resources
• Nutrition, Diet, and Health
• Economic Development

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Tribal College Land Grant Education Programs

• Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
• Nutrition, Diet, and Health
• Animal Sciences
• Technology

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Tribal College Land Grant Research Programs

• Natural Resources / Environmental Sciences
• Water Quality
• Range Management
• Watershed Management
• Native Plants
• Nutrition, Diet, and Health
• Animal Sciences

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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

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USDAs 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.