1. Tribal College Grant Programs
Similarities…
and Specialties

2. Land Grant Mission All universities engage in research and teaching
The nation's more than 100 land-grant colleges and universities, have a third critical mission—extension.
"Extension" means solving public needs with college or university resources through non- formal, non-credit programs.

3. 1994 Land Grant Mission Primarily serve Native Americans
Underserved remote communities
Native American students/communities celebrate their cultural and historical identity. (Culturally relevant curriculum)
Higher education programs involving teaching, community outreach, and research.

4. Where Our Programs “Live”
Equity ---In a classroom
Endowment –On a campus
Extension--In a community
Research--A research field/a laboratory
If the Equity program had a “spirit” it would hover around a classroom. “There’s an instructor getting his PhD because of me,” it would murmur. “I’ll bet she loves that distance education system we installed.” It would smile at a student and say, “He’s in here because of my recruitment and retention program.” Extension’s “spirit” would be flying wildly everywhere--outdoors with a group of tribal ranchers or in an after school program with giggling children, sitting in a community garden listening to an Elder talk about native plants. Research’s spirit would live in a more solitary world—quietly working with scientific instruments and listening as researchers discussed results.

5. Poverty Alleviation Youth Rodeo Community Gardens Elder Outreach
Food Safety
Worker Safety
Juvenile Recidivism
Renewable energy
Native Arts/Crafts
AV Safety
Water Quality
Pre-School
Literacy Training
Women’s Issues
Horticulture
Ag marketing
Master Gardner
Physical Activity
Job Training
Parenting
Economic
Community
Environmental

6. Engine Building
Rancher support
Extension
Equity
Research

7. Similarities

8. Equity Top Themes

9. Top Research Themes

10. Top Extension Themes

11. Research & Equity

12. Don’t research projects strongly encourage student involvement?
Don’t equity projects promote experiential learning?
Research and Equity

13. How Equity Can Help Research
Errors in data gathering undermine my work/peer credibility ---plus I don’t need lab accidents
Will the interns take this seriously?
Will the interns have the math skills I need
What if no one shows up?
Equity-funded class: “Principals of Research” covers safety and technique required of all interns
Youth Peer Panels evaluate who gets to participate. Must recruit/mentor new comers.
Math requirement—Equity funds STEM recovery
Equity-funded recruitment event with lab and field tour, hosted by interns
Equity
Research
Taken from a number of project directors confidences—both in Challenge Grant and Equity: Note/Equity guy is also a tribal research PD

14. Research and Extension

15. Research and Extension
Applications for nutrition research are on the rise--how do they reach communities?
How do extension nutrition projects get the best information to clients...
Research and Extension

16. expertise and knowledge
Mutual Benefits
A need for surveys on
attitudes and practices that capture focus populations candidly and respectfully
A wealth of scientific
expertise and knowledge
waiting to be used
A community ready to share—and guide surveys so that research is relevant to them
A mission to provide the community with the best science-based information available
Extension
Research

17. Equity and Extension

18. Equity and Extension

19. Equity and Extension
Have a similar grant pattern of continuations on a four-year cycle
Influence stakeholders and each other in “hard to quantify” ways (It’s there, but how to put it in a database or CRIS report?)

20. It’s NOT always about numbers
Equity Goal
Recruit and Retain
Juvenile Recidivism
Prevention
Parenting Classes
Suicide and drug intervention
Pre-Natal Health
4-H Youth Programs
Math Night for
K-12
Cultural Awareness for public K-12 Teachers
Farm and Ranch Development
It’s NOT always about numbers

21. How Subjects are delivered
Differences
How Subjects are delivered

22. Key Equity Delivery Methods

23. Key Extension Delivery Methods

24. Key Research Delivery Methods

25. Specialties

26. Extension Specialties

27. SUMMARY Equity, Research and Extension have subject overlap
Equity, Research and Extension specialize in how they address subjects
They also have special projects where schools might network and collaborate
Ample opportunity for program leverage

28. Next Steps Verify counts—what do tribal colleges see?
What do their course catalogues say?
Students: What classes to they want? What
future excites them about learning?
What do other stakeholders value?