Volume 1, No. 2 – Fall 1989
Last year, the Business Assistance Center at Northwest Indian College served clients from fishermen who wanted to get a loan for a boat, to artists, a landscaper, a contractor, and an Indian fried bread restaurant operator.
Women on the Turtle Mountain Reservation play a critical role in economic development.
What began as a cooperative venture in 1985 between Fond du Lac and a nearby community college — offering classroom space in exchange for course offerings at the Ojibway School — gave birth to Fond du Lac Community College in 1987 and the future looks bright.
If economic development can be nurtured by the sustained activity of diverse partnerships, then each tribal college needs to invest, not in a single approach, organization, or policy, but in identifying and strengthening a variety of institutions, both public and private, in its own community.
Oglala Lakota College is “one of the nation’s best kept higher education secrets” reported the Chronicle of Higher Education in a 1988 feature story. The college’s success is all the more remarkable because it has taken place in the poorest county in the United States.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has become one of the most active and influential voices in the national debate about excellence in education. This article contains excerpts from a major new report, “Tribal Colleges: Shaping the future of Native America.”
In a major new report, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching applauded the work of tribally controlled colleges, calling them “the most significant and hopeful development in our long history of failed policies toward Native Americans.”
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