Little Priest is using the money to expedite its campus expansion plan.

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After a year of worry about potential federal funding cuts, a tribal college is getting a boost from one of higher education’s most generous philanthropists.

On Thursday, Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago, Nebraska, announced that it has received a $5 million unrestricted donation from MacKenzie Scott, who has given more than $1 billion to higher education institutions over the past several years. Scott has targeted her largesse toward historically underfunded institutions that serve high numbers of low-income students. This fall alone, she gave upward of $300 million to historically black colleges and universities and another $50 mil

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