   | Year  |   |
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| 2005 | AIHEC Student Congress Plans 20th Anniversary |
| 2005 | Cuny Names Ms. AIHEC, Decoteau as Mr. AIHEC |
| 2004 | High Eagle Shares Story At AIHEC Conference |
| 2003 | NPS Makes Agreement With AIHEC Student Congress |
| 2003 | Members of theAIHEC Student Congress traveled to Washington |
| 2003 | AIHEC celebrates 30th anniversary |
| 2002 | Today's educators creating the leaders of tomorrow |
| 2002 | Resource Guide |
| 2002 | President George W Bush signs Executive Order 13270 for tribal colleges and universities |
 | 2001 | Reflecting on the impact of NAHEI projects - Leadership Development |
| 2000 | Reflecting on the impact of NAHEI projects - Group Two: National Organizational Leadershipt Development |
| 2000 | WK Kellogg convenes NAHEI Advisory Committee to discuss NAHEI Transition Phase |
| 2000 | President Clinton is first president to visit a tribal college (Diné College) |
| 1999 | AIHEC partners with Black and Hispanic serving colleges to form the Alliance for Equity in Education |
| 1998-2000 | NAHEI supported projects implemented and monitored |
| 1998 | Student Congress develops initiative |
| 1998 | US Congress Passes the Strengthening Tribal College Program in Title II of the Higher Education Act |
| 1997 | Carnegie Foundation publishes Native American Colleges, Progress and Prospects |
| 1997 | AIHEC Includes Haskell, SIPI and IAIA as voting members |
| 1997 | WK Kellogg Foundation NAHEI Phase II (1997-2002) |
| 1997 | White Earth Tribal and Community College is chartered |
| 1996 | President William J Clinton signs Executive Order 13021 on tribal colleges |
| 1996 | White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities office is created |
| 1996 | Little Priest Tribal College is chartered |
| 1995 | WK Kellogg Foundation launches Native American Higher Education Initiative |
| 1994 | US Congress passes the Equity in Education Land-Grant Status Act granting 29 tribal colleges land-grant status |
| 1994 | AIHEC purchases its own office building in Alexandria VA |
| 1993 | College of Menominee Nation is chartered |
| 1992 | Gail Bruce conceives idea for log cultural centers |
| 1990s | AIHEC Student Congress - More information about the early 1990s |
| 1990 | Tribal college librarians hold first Professional Development Institute |
| 1990 | Leech Lake Tribal College is chartered |
| 1989 | American Indian College Fund Incorporates |
| 1989 | AIHEC creates the Tribal College Journal |
| 1989 | Carnegie Foundation publishes special report: Tribal College, Shaping the Future of Native America |
| 1989 | Ten outstanding Tribal college students are recognized with AICF scholarships at the annual AIHEC Higher Education Conference held April 11-14th at Albuquerque, N.M. |
| 1989 | The annual AIHEC membership meeting in Washington, D.C., formal action is taken to accommodate expenses incurred by the AIHEC Student Congress leadership at the AIHEC conference. |
| 1988 | Institute of American Indian Arts gets Congressional charter |
| 1988 | AIHEC Student Congress President Sharon Iron Star of Saskatchewan Indian Federated College convened the third annual membership meeting during the 20th annual NIEA Convention at Tulsa, OK |
| 1988 | The AIHEC Student Congress published its first organizational newsletter with the assistance of Sinte Gleska University |
| 1987 | AIHEC Develops Scholarship Ideas |
| 1987 | Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College is chartered |
| 1987 | The AIHEC Student Congress established the annual AIHEC Outstanding Student of the Year awards program |
| 1987 | The first annual AIHEC Student Congress awards program was held at the annual AIHEC Higher Education conference in Missoula, Montana |
| 1987 | AIHEC Student Congress Re-organization |
| 1987 | The AIHEC Student Congress continued to coordinate activities for the AICF logo contest |
| 1987 | AIHEC Student Congress annual membership meeting |
| 1986 | American Indian College Fund Chartered |
| 1986 | Henrietta Mann, First BIA official to testify in support of tribal colleges |
| 1986 | Red Crow Community College is chartered |
| 1986 | AIHEC Created the Student Congress |
| 1986 | Tribal college students organized an ad hoc committee to formally establish the AIHEC Student Congress at the 5th AIHEC Conference |
| 1986 | Phil Baird (UTTC) and Elaine Beaudreau (OLC) convened Tribal college students and facilitated a two-day organizational development meeting on the Tsaile campus of Navajo Community College |
| 1986 | The ad hoc committee of the AIHEC Student Congress met with the AIHEC board of directors prior to the annual NIEA Convention in Reno, Nevada |
| 1986 | The members of the AIHEC Student Congress |
| 1984 | Bay Mills Community College is chartered |
| 1984 | Fort Belknap College is chartered |
| 1984 | Stone Child College is chartered |
| 1983 | AIHEC Bylaws include BIZ schools as associate members |
| 1983 | Northwest Indian College is chartered |
| 1982 | Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College is chartered |
| 1981 | First AIHEC Student Conference held in Rapid City, SD |
| 1980s | Phil Baird of Sinte Gleska College and Elaine Beaudreau of Oglala Lakota College regularly conducted conference workshops on the topic of Student Leadership Development. |
| 1980 | Little Big Horn College is chartered |
| 1979 | First Appropriations (core operational support) |
| 1979 | Crownpoint Institute of Technology is chartered |
| 1979 | Nebraska Indian Community College is chartered |
| 1978 | Tribal College Act Bill Passed |
| 1978 | US Congress passes the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act |
| 1978 | Fort Peck Community College is chartered |
| 1977 | Salish Kootenai College is chartered |
| 1976 | Black Caucus and US Rep. Shirley Chisholm support tribal college funding |
| 1975 | BIA testifies against need for tribal colleges |
| 1975 | Chief Dull Knife College is chartered |
| 1975 | Keweenaw Bay Community College is chartered |
| 1974 | Blackfeet Community College is chartered |
| 1974 | Cankdeska Cikana Community College is chartered |
| 1974 | Si Tanka Huron College is chartered |
| 1974 | Fort Berthold Community College is chartered |
| 1973 | Sitting Bull College is chartered |
| 1973 | Six tribal colleges charter AIHEC and open office in Denver |
| 1972 | Founding & Charter of AIHEC |
| 1972 | Turtle Mountain Community College is chartered |
| 1971 | Navajo Community College Act Approved by Congress |
| 1971 | D-Q University is Chartered |
| 1971 | Oglala Lakota College is Chartered |
| 1971 | Sinte Gleska University is chartered |
| 1971 | Southwestern Indian Poytechnic Institute is chartered |
| 1968 | Navajo Community College Founded & Chartered |
| 1968 | United Tribes Technical College is Chartered |
| 1962 | Haskell opens as a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Boarding school |
| 1962 | Institute of American Indian arts is created by BIA |