"As we start the new year, my leadership team, like many others across the country, is confronting the financial fallout from the Department of Education's decision to end grant programs for certain minority-serving institutions, including ours. The department has framed its September shift of funds away from MSIs and toward historically Black colleges and universities and tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) as an expansion of opportunity."
"Federal support for Native education is a part of the federal trust responsibility, codified by at least 150 treaties, as well as various statutes and court decisions. Those treaties provide explicit provisions for various services, including education, that were guaranteed to Tribal Nations and their citizens by the United States government in exchange for land. This trust responsibility follows both Tribal Nations and individual tribal citizens. Ultimately, the federal trust responsibility is both a legal and moral obligation."
The Department of Education redirected grant funding from several minority-serving institution categories toward historically Black colleges and universities and tribal colleges and universities, reducing support for institutions that serve Native students. Federal support for Native education is part of the federal trust responsibility established by treaties, statutes, and court decisions, guaranteeing education services to Tribal Nations and citizens. Congress created Native American-serving nontribal institutions (NASNTIs) in 2008 to fund institutions educating Native students outside TCUs. Only about 12 percent of Native students attend TCUs. Cutting more than $54 million from NASNTIs, AANAPISIs, and ANNHs undermines the trust responsibility and removes programs that served all qualifying students, not only Native learners, creating new barriers for Indigenous students.
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