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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. Tribal College Land Grant Status: Why Important?. The Potential To meet the needs of your communities
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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
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.