• Leech Lake Tribal College is located on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in north central Minnesota, three miles northwest of the town of Cass Lake.
• The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe (LLBO) established Leech Lake Tribal College by Tribal Resolution in July 1990. In the fall quarter of 1992, Leech Lake Tribal College began offering its own courses leading toward the Associate of Arts and the Associate of Applied Science Degrees.
• Today, Leech Lake Tribal College includes approximately 70 faculty, staff, administrators, and 250 full-time students.

• Century is the largest two-year combined community and technical college in Minnesota.
• Century serves over 12,000 students per year and offers more than 60 technical and occupational programs, a wide variety of customized training and continuing education, and liberal arts and science degrees designed for transfer to four-year institutions.
• Century College’s Student Support Services (SSS) is a federally funded TRIO program that provides opportunities to students who are traditionally underserved in higher education.

• Carleton is an independent and highly selective private liberal arts college with a diverse and able student body, a strong faculty whose first priority is teaching, and a continued commitment to the liberal arts.
• The 507 members of the Class of 2010 were chosen from among 4,461 applicants. Carleton enrolls 1,900 students, who come from all 50 states and 27 different countries.

• A wooded, lakeside campus offering arts, sciences, and select professional programs in a personal learning atmosphere focused on the environment, civic engagement, and the global family.
• One of the leading Minnesota state universities for the percentage of entering freshmen ranked in the top 25% of their high school graduating class.
• Faculty research and expertise include: bioremediation, child development, women in the workplace, emergency responders and stress, poetry and creative writing, e-learning, digital literacy and computer-mediated communication, business

• Augsburg University, founded in 1869, is a private University in Minneapolis affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
• On its urban campus, the Augsburg community includes approximately 3,100 students from 36 states, 47 foreign countries and 24 tribal nations/reservations, and students may choose from over 50 major areas of study.
• The primary focus is the undergraduate program offered in the more traditional day program and a large Weekend College Program for working adults.

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The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) is an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation which is intended to double the number of African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, Alaska Native and Pacific Islander students receiving baccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in a five-year period.