The 1994 Land Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges and Universities)

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

2. 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

3. 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).

4. 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

5. 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)

6. Tribal College Land Grant Extension Programs • Youth Development • Natural Resources • Nutrition, Diet, and Health • Economic Development

7. Tribal College Land Grant Education Programs • Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences • Nutrition, Diet, and Health • Animal Sciences • Technology

8. Tribal College Land Grant Research Programs • Natural Resources / Environmental Sciences • Water Quality • Range Management • Watershed Management • Native Plants • Nutrition, Diet, and Health • Animal Sciences

9. 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

10. 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.