The College was awarded candidacy status with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association in 2002, and awarded continuing candidacy status in 2004. The College was accredited as a vocational school in 1993. In addition, approximately 8% of the students enrolled at the College are non-Native American. Most of our students come from the Leech Lake Reservation and the surrounding Reservations in Northern Minnesota. Today, LLTC includes approximately 70 faculty, staff, administrators, and 250 full-time students. These students were enrolled in two-year Associate of Arts transfer degree programs, or in two-year technical programs leading to an Associate of Applied Science degree, or in one-year vocational programs. The College moved classrooms and administration to the former Cass Lake High School building in the fall of 1994, resulting in greatly increased enrollment of 196 students. The 2007–08 academic year saw record student enrollment the 2008 graduating class was the largest in LLTC history. By the spring of 1995, the number of graduates had increased to twenty-four. Also, in 1994, seventeen graduates completed their Associate of Arts degrees and Associate of Applied Science degrees.

In 1994, the College was accorded status as a Land Grant Institution by the United States Congress. The first LLTC student was Sean Fahrlander, graduating with an Associate of Arts degree in Anishinaabe Language and Culture in the spring of 1993. In the fall quarter of 1992, LLTC began offering its own courses leading toward the Associate of Arts and the Associate of Applied Science Degrees. For two years, courses were offered in extension from the University of Minnesota Duluth, Bemidji State University, Itasca Community College and Central Lakes College (then known as Brainerd Community College). LLBO established LLTC by Tribal Resolution in July 1990.

to serve the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people of the Leech Lake Indian Reservation and surrounding reservations.

to provide higher education grounded in Anishinaabe values, language, history, and culture.

Four buildings have been completed on the new campus, and funds are being raised for construction of a fifth building, continuing the pattern of growth at LLTC. LLTC is located on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in north central Minnesota, three miles northwest of the town of Cass Lake.

Building and Construction Trades, including Residential Carpentry and Construction Electricity.In May 2010, LLTC honored 48 graduates, the largest class to graduate in LLTC’s history. LLTC experienced an eight percent increase in student enrollment during AY 2009–10. Although most students enrolled at LLTC come from the Leech Lake Reservation and the surrounding reservations in northern Minnesota approximately eight percent of students are non-Native. Leech Lake Tribal College (LLTC) is a small, associate degree-granting, Anishinaabe college in Cass Lake, Minnesota, chartered by the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe (LLBO) and accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

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