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White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities

> Three-Year Plan to Implement Executive Order 13270 on Tribal Colleges
> and Universities

Fiscal Years 2009-2011

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WHITE HOUSE INITIATIVE ON TRIBAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

**THREE-YEAR PLAN FOR ASSISTANCE**

**TO TRIBAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES**

#### FISCAL YEARS 2009-2011

# INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDELINES

A. [Executive Summary]{.underline}

Develop a brief summary (one to two pages) of your agency's planned
activities to assist Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) meet the
goals of Executive Order 13270, *Tribal Colleges and Universities*,
highlighting strategic goals and objectives within the agency's
Strategic Plan.

B. [Separate Year Plans (2009, 2010, 2011)]{.underline}

In cooperation with the agency budget/performance planning staff,
provide specific information on existing or new program resources that
enhance opportunities to fulfill the five mandates listed in Executive
Order 13270: 1) use long-term development, endowment building, and
planning to strengthen institutional viability; 2) improve financial
management and security, obtain private-sector funding support, and
expand and complement Federal education initiatives; 3) develop
institutional capacity through the use of new and emerging technologies
offered by both the Federal and private sectors; 4) enhance physical
infrastructure to facilitate more efficient operation and effective
recruitment and retention of students and faculty; and 5) help implement
the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and meet other high standards of
educational achievement.

A separate worksheet is required for each fiscal year plan. Electronic
copies of the worksheets, which can be printed out when completed or
transmitted electronically, are available at
<http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/whtc/edlite-links.html>. (Hard copy
examples of the electronic worksheets are attached for reference.)

Complete each column on the form:

[Strategic Goals:]{.underline} Using the agency's existing Strategic
Plan, discuss under each Strategic Goal planned actions to assist TCUs
in fulfilling the mandates of the Executive Order.

[Synopsis of TCU Program that Relates to Goal:]{.underline} Provide
specific programmatic information to support the Plan (e.g., Department
of Education TRIO programs, Department of Transportation Entrepreneurial
Development Institutes) where funding streams are identified. If there
are opportunities to leverage existing funding streams into greater
opportunities to create or strengthen partnerships between the tribal
colleges, your agency, or private sector interests, this information
should also be included in the plan.

[Performance Measure for Each Program:]{.underline} Indicate the
performance measures that will be used in your agency assessment of
program effectiveness for the TCUs. Each program described in Column II
should have a corresponding performance measure. (The performance
measures indicated in the Plan will be used as a tool to measure
responses submitted in the Annual Report on Federal Agency Awards to
Tribal Colleges and Universities.)

[Projected Funding for Program:]{.underline} Funding resources (budget
authority) should be available for all FY 2009 Plans and included in
that report. The FY 2009 funding reported will become the baseline
funding for out-year planning (for 2010 and 2011). You should indicate
an expected increase/decrease or stable funding for all projected
activities on each of the out-year planning worksheets. If new programs
are being added to your plan for either FY 2010 or FY 2011, new program
funding should be included.

[Funding Category:]{.underline} Select the funding category that best
represents the assistance being provided to the TCUs. This category will
be reviewed for consistency with the annual reports.

[Relationship to Mandates in E.O. 13270:]{.underline} Select the mandate
from the Executive Order that aligns with the program activities that
the agency plans to accomplish.

C. [Due Date and Submission Information]{.underline}

By **December 19, 2008**, the following information is due to the White
House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities:

-   Agency Executive Summary

-   Agency 2009 Plan

-   Agency 2010 Plan

-   Agency 2011 Plan

Please submit the agency plan to:

> Anselm G. Davis, Executive Director
>
> White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities
>
> U.S. Department of Education
>
> 1990 K Street, NW
>
> Washington, DC 20006
>
> Fax: (202) 219-7086
>
> E-mail: Tonya.Ewers@ed.gov

D. [Attachments]{.underline}

Glossary of Terms Used in Electronic Worksheets

List of Tribal Colleges and Universities

Executive Order 13270 *Tribal Colleges and Universities*

Hard Copy Examples of Electronic Worksheets

[GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN ELECTRONIC WORKSHEETS]{.underline}

**[Administrative Infrastructure (AI)]{.underline}:** Federal assistance
to strengthen the management and administrative framework of an
institution of higher education. An example of AI is when agency
personnel participate in the planning required to strengthen a research
or teaching project or library collections, including attendance at
planning sessions regarding administration of the institutional programs
and missions.

**[Direct Institutional Subsidies]{.underline}:** Federal financial
support to institutions of higher education for education and general
expenses where the Federal Government either places no restrictions on
the uses to which the funds may be put, or where the Federal Government
provides a broad range of allowable activities within which the
institution has discretion to use the funds.

**[Economic Development]{.underline}:** Awards provided to support
creation of new businesses or jobs, or expand existing businesses in
order to create new markets.

**[Facilities and Equipment]{.underline}:** Structures, works, fixed
equipment, major repairs, or alterations to: structures, works, fixed
equipment, facilities, or land for use by an institution of higher
education. Also included are major repairs and alterations to these
sites.

This category includes *construction*, the building or erecting of new
or replacement buildings and facilities to be used as educational
facilities by institutions of higher education.

Also included in this category is equipment that provides hardware
support to strengthen the capabilities of technology and communications
at institutions of higher education (e.g., broadband).

[**Fellowships, Internships, Recruitment, Traineeships, and Arrangements
under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPAs**)]{.underline}**:**
Cooperative education, student and faculty internships, visiting
professorships, and personnel and student recruitment at institutions of
higher education. Costs include salaries and expenses for student
workers paid through a private organization, costs of career fair
booths, and salaries and expenses for agency employees who are
recruiting. This category also includes costs for student fellows and
interns, and the costs for employee training on how to mentor students.

**[Measurable Objectives]{.underline}:** Agency activities or support
for TCUs that can be quantitatively measured in dollar amounts or in
discrete, nonfinancial units of measure.

**[Performance Measures]{.underline}:** Indicators, statistics, or
metrics used to gauge program performance. Program performance measures
include outcome, output, and efficiency measures.

**[Private Sector Involvement]{.underline}:** Activities funded in part
or in whole by corporate sponsorship. An example would be if a medical
student were provided work experience at a Federal Laboratory and paid
by a corporation instead of the Federal agency.

**[Program Evaluation]{.underline}:** Actions to assess the
effectiveness of institutional programs and activities, as well as the
effectiveness of Federal programs and activities. In many cases, program
evaluation activities are conducted on a continuous basis and are
frequently included as salaries or other budgetary expenses. Costs to be
captured may include those for non-teaching activities, contractual
services for testing (i.e. laboratory), or evaluation of ongoing
programs (on-site reviews).

**[Research and Development (R&D)]{.underline}:** Studies, observations,
and other activities concerned with the identification, description,
experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of social,
physical, and behavioral phenomena. Implementation activities are also
included in R&D.

**[Strategic Goals]{.underline}:** Strategic goals express the
overarching purposes and are used to group multiple strategic
objectives. They define how an agency will carry out a major segment of
its mission over a period of time.

**[Student Tuition Assistance, Scholarships, and Other
Aid]{.underline}:** Federal funds awarded to an institution of higher
education for students or awarded directly to students for payment of
such charges as tuition and room and board.

**[Technical Assistance]{.underline}:** Direct help or services to
institutions of higher education in key areas such as writing proposals,
negotiating awards, and managing programs and finances. For applicable
agencies, this includes scientific and/or technical support. All
technical assistance should be included under Category 4, Training.
Examples of such activities include: funding of programs that provide
technical assistance (many through agency outreach staff) and
development of curricula for colleges and universities.

**[Third-Party Awards]{.underline}:** Organizations or other entities
receiving Federal awards on behalf of one or more colleges or
universities. Examples of such entities include: the National
Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO); American
Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC); American Indian Science and
Engineering Society (AISES); National Laboratories, such as Los Alamos
or Lawrence Livermore; and various foundations and associations.

**[Training]{.underline}:** Using professional personnel (Federal and
non-Federal) to acquire or enhance knowledge or skills at an
institution.

**[Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs)]{.underline}:** Those
institutions defined in Section 2 of Executive Order 13270,
specifically: institutions cited in section 532 of the Equity in
Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. §301 note); any
other institution that qualifies for funding under the Tribally
Controlled College and University Assistance Act of 1978, (25 U.S.C
§1801 *et seq*.); and Dine College, authorized in the Navajo Community
College Assistance Act of 1978, Public Law 95-471, title II (25 U.S.C.
§640a note).

#### List of Tribal Colleges and Universities

**September 2008**

**Bay Mills Community College Little Big Horn College**

Brimley, MI Crow Agency, MT

## Blackfeet Community College Little Priest Tribal College

Browning, MT Winnebago, NE

## Cankdeska Cikana Community College Nebraska Indian Community College

Fort Totten, ND  Macy, NE

## Chief Dull Knife College Northwest Indian College

Lame Deer, MT Bellingham, WA

## College of Menominee Nation Oglala Lakota College

Keshena, WI Kyle, SD

## Navajo Technical College Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College

Crownpoint, NM Mount Pleasant, MI

## Diné College Salish Kootenai College

Tsaile, AZ Pablo, MT

### Fond du Lac Tribal and C.C. Sinte Gleska University

Cloquet, MN Mission, SD

## Fort Belknap College Sisseton Wahpeton College

Harlem, MT Agency Village, SD

**Fort Berthold Community College Sitting Bull College**

New Town, ND Fort Yates, ND

**Fort Peck Community College Southwestern Indian Polytechnic
Institute**

Poplar, MT Albuquerque, NM

**Haskell Indian Nations University Stone Child College**

Lawrence, KS Box Elder, MT

**Ilisagvik College Tohono O'odham Community College**

Barrow, AK Sells, AZ

**Institute of American Indian Arts Turtle Mountain Community College**

Santa Fe, NM Belcourt, ND

**Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa C.C United Tribes Technical College**

Hayward, WI Bismarck, ND

**Leech Lake Tribal College White Earth Tribal and C.C.**

Cass Lake, MN Mahnomen, MN