The Permanent University Fund: Land Grants and Mineral Leases

Abstract

This project was completed as part of a partnership between the University of Minnesota’s Office of American Indian Tribal Nations Relations and the Resilient Communities Project (https://rcp.umn.edu/). The goal of this project was to provide a preliminary historical and financial analysis of the University of Minnesota’s Permanent University Fund, its sources of revenue, and its allocation of those funds. Office of American Indian Tribal Nations Relations project lead An Garagioloa collaborated with a team of students in Dr. Greg Lindsey's course PA 8081: Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone to quantify the mineral extraction revenue the University has collected from the land-grant lands, and how that revenue has been allocated both within the University and throughout Minnesota. A final student report from the project is available.