Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College is a tribally controlled land grant institution that reflects and pro
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Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College (SCTC) is a public community college located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. In 1998, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Council adopted a resolution establishing a tribally controlled college and forming a governing Board of Regents. While the primary focus was to build a bridge between tribal members and higher education, the college was chartered as a public institution for all people in the community. In passing their resolution to establish the college, the Tribal Council sought to increase access to higher education and to expand educational and career opportunities for the tribal community. The Tribal Council also was taking responsibility to provide for the future of the tribe by investing in its most valuable resource, its members and employees. The establishment of Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College was an important step in an educational empowerment process that seeks to preserve and maintain the Saginaw Chippewa tribal culture. The college strives to provide a quality learning experience and environment designed to sustain the cultural continuity of the Tribe from past to future generations.
With its founding in 1998, Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College joined the larger tribal college movement. In 2007 the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College became an accredited higher education organization. This accomplishment moved the vision of the Tribal Council , to “enable Native Americans to achieve a significant position in the world’s emerging economy”, to a reality. And while this success provides the opportunity of higher education to Native Americans it does so while promoting values, history, traditions, and wisdom of the Anishinaabe.
Like other tribal colleges, SCTC had very modest beginnings. Originally, in 1998, the college consisted of an office, two classrooms, and a computer lab in the Nish-na-be-anong residential area of the Isabella Indian Reservation, the first federally funded housing project on the reservation erected in the late 1960s. The office and computer lab then relocated to the Tribal Operations building, while the two classrooms remained at Nish-na-be-anong. The office on Nish-na-be-anong was used to house the newly established Learning Resource Center until it too moved to the Tribal Operations building. In October of 2000, SCTC moved to a leased building one mile from the Tribal Operations building and other tribal buildings.
