Trump Proposes 90% Cut to Funding of Tribal Colleges
Nathan M Greenfield | 21 July 2025 | University World News
“I’m shivering in my boots. This would basically be a knife in the chest. It’s a dagger, and I don’t know how we can survive these types of cuts.” – Manoj Patil, president of Little Priest Tribal College (Winnebago, Nebraska), responding to the Bureau of Indian Education’s request to the United States Congress to cut support for Tribal Colleges and Universities by 90%.
Dr Twyla Baker, president of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College in northwest North Dakota, and the more than 30 other Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) presidents, lie awake at night – because of the numbers on page three of the Bureau of Indian Education’s (BIE) budget for the US government’s fiscal year beginning 1 October (FY2026)….