Tribal Colleges - MN

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College is the only combined tribal college and state community college in the United States. The college is co-governed by the state of Minnesota and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College opened its doors in 1987 in leased quarters. Today, the college also is the only community college in Minnesota that offers a bachelor degree program and is one of only a few colleges in the United States that offers courses in E-crime and computer forensics. In the fall of 2002, the college had an enrollment of 1,315 students. The college offers more than 40 different associate of arts degrees from accounting and American Indian studies to registered nursing and law enforcement. Fond du Lac was one of the first tribal colleges to make distance learning and the Internet an integral part of the curriculum. The college also is collaborating with the reservation’s Ojibwe school to increase science and computer literacy through summer camps and by linking both schools together via the Internet.