Karen Breit:
Tribal colleges and universities are usually situated within their home communities, which creates access. Tribal communities are often in rural areas, remote areas of the country, and so having access to higher education within your home community is tremendous for tribal people. Tribal colleges and universities are often economic engines within their region and the communities that they serve. They have tremendous impact on their local economies and workforce development. They create jobs. Tribal colleges and universities have that — the curriculum that is made by and delivered to people, to tribal people by tribal people, which is a large aspect of sovereignty and self-determination of tribes, to determine for themselves how we educate our own people.