The 2022 First Americans Land Grant Consortium (FALCON) conference took place this past weekend in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and organizers witnessed record attendance throughout the multiday event.
Various calls have been made to pay greater attention to Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and the students served by these institutions of higher learning.
On Episode 9 in the AAUP podcast series, Stephen M. Gavazzi and John N. Low discuss how institutions are beginning to address and contend with difficult questions about their relationship to Indigenous communities.
In the present article, we turn our attention toward SOSU activities centering on the viewpoints of the leaders of those tribal nations whose land was seized and sold to help found The Ohio State University.
Episode 2 of The Lantern's Who Knew? video series takes us back to the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act of 1862 into action, and with it, Ohio State into existence.
Stephen M. Gavazzi and John N. Low discuss the massive transfer of wealth from tribal nations that underwrote the founding of land-grant universities, and the hard questions about land-grant institutions' relationships to Indigenous communities.
Sparked by the Land-Grab Universities report, a faculty and staff group from The Ohio State University created the Stepping Out and Stepping Up racial justice project to address the dispossession and sale of tribal lands used to fund the establishment of OSU.
InFACT Discovery Theme Newsletter: The term "land grant university" is quite common in the United States but few have interrogated what that term really means — from whom was this land "granted"?
Featured speaker, Elijah Forbes, is an Odawa Two-Spirited comic artist and community organizer, who works with themes of Indigenous Futurisms, reclaiming power out of trauma, and transgender joy.
