DOCUMENT RESUME RC 019 644 ED 370 745 Equity in Educational Land Grant Status Act of 1993. TITLE Hearing on S. 1345 To Provide Land-Grant Status for Tribally ControlJed Community Colleges, Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions, the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Haskell Indian Junior College, before the Committee on Indian Affairs. United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session (November 18, 1993). Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate INSTITUTION Committee on Indian Affairs. ISBN-0-16-044169-2; Senate-Hrg-103-470 REPORT NO PUB DATE 94 84p.; Contains some small or brololn type. NOTE U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of AVAILABLE FROM Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402. Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials (090) PUB TYPE MF01/PC04 Plus Postage. EDRS PRICE *Agricultural Education; *American Indian Education; DESCRIPTORS *Community Colleges; *Federal Aid; Federal Legislation; Hearings; *Land Grant Universities; Postsecondary Education; Rural Extension; Technical Institutes; *Tribally Controlled Education; Vocational Schools Congress 103rd; Proposed Legislation IDENTIFIERS ABSTRACT A Senate committee hearing received testimony on the Equity in Educational Land Grant Status Act, which would extend land-grant status and concomitant federal aid to 29 Indian tribal colleges and postsecondary institutions. Senators and representatives of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Navajo Community College, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, Sinte Gleska University, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Indian Education Programs endorsed the act and discussed the analogies between the mission of tribal colleges and that of present land-grant institutions, the underfunding of tribal colleges, the need for education in agriculture and natural resource management on American Indian reservations, and the opportunity for expanded rural extension initiatives that land-grant status would provide. Additional materials submitted to the committee include a list of the benefits of land-grant status; a description of the mission, philosophy, programs, students, and needs of Navajo Community College (NCC); statistical information on the Navajo community and economy; results of a s..1rvey of NCC graduates; and a proposed amendment to the bill. 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HRG. 103-470 LAND GRANT STATUS EQUITY IN EDUCATIONAL ACT OF 1993 HEARING BEFORE THE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE ON INDIAN UNITED STATES SENATE CONGRESS ONE HUNDRED THIRD FIRST SESSION oq S. 1345 FOR TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COM- TO PROVIDE LAND-GRANT STATUS CONTROLLED POSTSECONDARY VOCA- MUNITY COLLEGES, TRIBALLY OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND TIONAL INSTITUTIONS, THE INSTITUTE ARTS DEVELOPMENT, SOUTHWEST ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE AND AND HASKELL INDIAN JUNIOR INDIAN POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, COLLEGE NOVEMBER 18, 1993 WASHINGTON, DC Of EDUCATION U.S. DEPARTMENT Research and ImoroYement Office of Educational INFORMATION EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES CENTER (ERIC) reproduced as hes been ft This document or Of gantzetton ecewed from the person of 9nottnct trnprov bean mid* to 14,nOf CnerlQ11 hive* O reproduction ouelds his doCu- ocnntont stated tn I ofhtiat Points Of voltv of nCelSanly 1.pr11111111 mint cfo not policy OERI position or U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1994 74-503 For sa' ; by the U.S. Government Printing Office DC 20402 Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, I SBN 0-16-044169-2 2 AVAILABLE BEST COPY -ay es COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii, Chairman JOHN McCAIN, Arizona, Vice Chairman DENNIS DeCONCINI, Arizona FRANK MURKOWSKL Alaska THOMAS A. DASCHLE, South Dakota THAD COCHRAN, Miasissippi KENT CONRAD, North Dakota SLADE GORTON, Washington HARRY REID, Nevada PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico PAUL SIMON, Illinois NANCY LANDON KASSEBAUM, Kansas DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii DON NICKLES, Oklahoma PAUL WELLSTONE, Minnesota MARK 0. HATFIELD, Oregon BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL, Colorado PATRICIA M. ZRLL, Staff Director Wan= N. LIN918, Minority Staff Director CONTENTS Page S. 1345, text of 3 Statements: Bingaman, Hon. Jeff, U.S. Senator from New Mexico Inouye, Hon. Daniel K., U.S. Senator from Hawaii, chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs 1 Kunsman, Joseph, Director, Academic Programs, Agricultural and Natu- ral Resources, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC 10 Lewis, Tommy, Navajo Community College, Tsai le, AZ 19 McDonald, Joseph, Chairman, American Indian High Education Consorti- um Land Grant Study Committee, Washington, DC, and President, Salish-Kootenai College, Pablo, MT 15 Moore, Robert, Development Officer, Sinte Gleska University, Rosebud, SD, on behalf of Lionel Bordeaux 17 Perez, Margaret, President, American Indian High Education Consorti- um, Washington, DC, and President, Fort Belknap Community College, Harlem, MT 12 Rodriguez, Reggie, Post-secondary Branch, Office of Indian Education Programs 8 Tiger, Georgiana, Executive Director, American Indian High Education Consortium. Washington, DC 12 Tippeconnic, J3lin, Director, Office of Indian Education Programs, BIA 8 APPENDIX Prepared statements: Campbell, Hon. Ben Nighthorse, U.S. Senator from Colorado 23 Kunsman, Joseph 24 33 Lewis, Tommy (with attachments) 28 McDonald, Joseph Moore, Robert, on behalf of Lionel Bordeaux 30 Perez, Margaret 25 Tippeconnic, John 24 Additional material submitted for the record: Memorandum from Marjorie Steinberg and David Thomas 70 (In ) 4 EQUITY IN EDUCATIONAL LAND GRANT STATUS ACT OF 1993 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1993 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAMS, Washington, DC The committee met, pursuant to other business, at 10:14 a.m. in room 485, Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senators Inouye, Akaka, McCain, Wellstone, Daschle, Murkowski, Cochran, and Gorton. STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. INOUYE, U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAII, CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS The CHAIRMAN. We now proceed to the committee's hearing on S. 1345, the Equity in Educational Land Grant Status Act of 1993, a bill authored by our distinguished colleague from New Mexico, Senator Jeff Bingaman, who is with us this morning. When President Lincoln signed the Morrill Act into law in 1862, the Nation embarked upon its first program of general support for higher education. Until that time, the only Federal support was for the military academies. The Morrill Act provided that the interest on incomes from cer- tain Federal land grants would go to the States to support a college in each State offering instruction in the agricultural and mechani- cal arts. Today all States now have at least one land grant institution, as do the outlying territories and the District of Columbia, and 16 States have 2 such institutions. Each institution receives an endowment based on the income from certain lands in their States or received as appropriations. In addition to their endowments, land grant colleges have benefited from appropriations through the Department of Agriculture to car- ryout instructional and research programs related to farming, ranching, and nutrition. These colleges and other colleges and universities have also been assisted in serving their students and their communities in appro- priations made to the Department of Education and other depart- ments of Federal Government. Federal aid to higher education has grown significantly in the years since the enactment of this act, but tribally-controlled com- munity colleges and other Indian post-secondary institutions re- ceive but little Federal aid, despite the special relationship of the (1) 5 2 United States to American Indians and despite the important roles that tribal colleges perfoan in serving their students and communi- ties. So it is my hope that today's hearing will be the first step toward remedying this situation, At the same time, it becomes a step toward an enlargement of the tribal college's activities. Finally, I should note that, although the committee invited the Department of Agriculture to send its representative to present tes- timony, the Department informed the committee that it was not able to complete its analysis and obtain necessary clearances in time to do so. However, I am assured that the Department is interested in this bill and will file its testimony with the committee within 10 days. [Text of S. 1345 follows:] 94. 6 3 II S. 1345 103n CONGRESS 1ST SESSION To provide land-grant status for tribally controlled community colleges, trib- ally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions, the Institute of Ame ican Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Haskell Indian Junior Col- lege, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AUGUST 3 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993 Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself, Mr. BAUCUS, Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. DORGAN, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. RIEGLE, Mr. SBION, and Mr. DA.scHLE) introduced the fol- lowing bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Mfairs A BILL To provide land-grant status for tribally controlled commu- nity colleges, tribally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions, the Institute of 1merican Indian, and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Haskell Indian Junior College, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 2 ayes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Equity in Educational 4 5 Land-Grant Status Act of 1993". 7 4 2 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. As used in this Act: 2 (1) INSTITUTE.The term "Institute" means 3 4 the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development established under 5 6 section 1504 of the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development 7 Act (20 U.S.C. 4411). 8 9 (2) TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COL- LEGES.The term "tribally controlled community 10 colleges" has the meaning given such term by sec- 11 tion 2(a)(4) of the Tribally Controlled Community 12 Assistance of Act College 13 (25 1978 U.S.C. 1801(a)(4)). 14 15 (3) TRIBALLY CONTROLLED POSTSECONDARY "tribally VOCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.The term 16 controlled postsecondary vocational institutions" has 17 the meaning given such term by section 390(2) of 18 the Tribally Controlled Vocational Institutions Sup- 19 port Act of 1990 (20 U.S.C. 2397h). 20 21 SEC. 3. LAND-GRANT STATUS FOR TRIBALLY CONTROLLED 22 COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND TRIBALLY CON- 23 TROLLED POSTSECONDARY VOCATIONAL IN- 24 STITUTIONS. (a) IN GENERAL.Tribally controlled community 25 26 colleges, tribally controlled postsecondary vocational insti- 43 134 6 IS 5 3 tutions, the Institute, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Insti- 1 2 tute, and Haskell Indian Junior College shall be consid- 3 ered land-grant colleges established for the benefit of agri- 4 culture and the mech.-..nic arts in accordance with the pro- 5 visions of the Act of July 2, 1862, as amended (12 Stat. 6 503; 7 U.S.C. 301-305, 307, and 308). (b) APPLICABILITY OP RELATED PROVISIONS.Any 7 8 provision of any Act of Congress relating to the operation 9 of, or provision of, assistance to a land-grant college in 10 the United States, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the North- 11 12 ern Mariana Islands shall apply o the land-grant colleges 13 and institutions described in subsection (a) in the same 14 manner and to the same extent. (C) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.In lieu of 15 16 extending to the colleges and institutions described in sub- 17 section (a) those provisions of the Act of July 2, 1862, 18 as amended, relating to donations of public land or land 19 scrip for the endowment and maintenance of colleges for 20 the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, there is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 to such tribal 21 22 colleges and institutions. Amounts appropriated pursuant 23 to this section shall be held and considered to have been 24 granted to such wlleges and institutions subject to the .8 1345 IS 9 MOP 6 4 provisions of that Act applicable to the proceeds from the 1 2 sale of land or land scrip. Jo