Excited to announce that the #landgrabu investigation at @highcountrynews is posting a correction.
It's a little unusual for reporters to get excited about corrections, so check this out ⬇️
It's a little unusual for reporters to get excited about corrections, so check this out ⬇️
June 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Excited to announce that the #landgrabu investigation at @highcountrynews is posting a correction.
It's a little unusual for reporters to get excited about corrections, so check this out ⬇️
It's a little unusual for reporters to get excited about corrections, so check this out ⬇️
That article was backed by a huge amount of painstaking research, and HCN published all the data. They rechristened land-grant universities “land-grab universities.” As an alumnus of one (Virginia Tech), I haven’t thought of it the same since.
GitHub - HCN-Digital-Projects/landgrabu-data: Source data for the HCN investigation, "Land-Grab Universities"
Source data for the HCN investigation, "Land-Grab Universities" - HCN-Digital-Projects/landgrabu-data
github.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
That article was backed by a huge amount of painstaking research, and HCN published all the data. They rechristened land-grant universities “land-grab universities.” As an alumnus of one (Virginia Tech), I haven’t thought of it the same since.
But the reason we're excited for this find is that #landgrabu has always been an open source investigation. Numerous scholars and reporters have utilized our data, and our hope has always been for other reporters to dig deeper into the buried stories. Here’s Bobby Benson on the matter:
June 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
But the reason we're excited for this find is that #landgrabu has always been an open source investigation. Numerous scholars and reporters have utilized our data, and our hope has always been for other reporters to dig deeper into the buried stories. Here’s Bobby Benson on the matter:
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Extremely glad to be able to put a link to LandGrabU, which explains how many land grant universities were funded with expropriated Indigenous land, on my syllabus. If you're teaching at a land grant university, you might consider doing something similar.
https://www.landgrabu.org/
https://www.landgrabu.org/
www.landgrabu.org
August 19, 2023 at 4:29 PM
Extremely glad to be able to put a link to LandGrabU, which explains how many land grant universities were funded with expropriated Indigenous land, on my syllabus. If you're teaching at a land grant university, you might consider doing something similar.
https://www.landgrabu.org/
https://www.landgrabu.org/
New research builds on #MisplacedTrust and #LandGrabU by exploring & analyzing historical and ongoing land and resource theft from Indigenous peoples for the benefit of institutions of higher education: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
More Than Morrill: The Intertwined History of Indian Land Dispossession, Arizona Statehood, and University Enrichment
<p>Through the federal government’s university land-grant programs, which began with the Morrill Act in 1862 and continue today, Congress has systematically all
papers.ssrn.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM
New research builds on #MisplacedTrust and #LandGrabU by exploring & analyzing historical and ongoing land and resource theft from Indigenous peoples for the benefit of institutions of higher education: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
