CALIFORNIA INDIAN NATIONS COLLEGE

With the support of the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians, local Native communities, College of the Desert, and the Native and non-Native members of the advisory committee, CINC has become a reality. The College was chartered by the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians in September of 2017. Early the next year, the same tribe generously provided seed money to support the initial staffing of the College, enabling it to quickly get off the ground. The University of California, Riverside (UCR), graciously offered to sponsor the College's offices for its first two years at its Palm Desert Graduate Center where it has also rented classroom space to CINC. With that, the staff hit the ground running and the College taught its first classes in cooperation with UCR Extension in Fall 2018... CINC aims to become the first stand alone, fully-accredited tribal college in California in decades. According to the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, there are 37 accredited Tribal..

Primary location: Palm Desert United States