David M. Gipp

David M. Gipp is President of DM Gipp & Associates LLC and Chancellor of the United Tribes Technical College, Emeritus). He was born in Fort Yates, North Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

United Tribes Technical College was founded by fives tribes and their leaders in the late 1960s. It serves an average of more than 300 adults and 240 children and is one of the most innovative residential post secondary educational models in the United States. As President, Dr. Gipp oversees United Tribes' accredited community college, K-8 elementary school and two early childhood centers, as well as a host of additional direct service programs for reservation citizens, including the Sacred Child Program, the ND/SD Business Development Center, a transportation technical assistance center and the Regional Comprehensive Technical Assistance Center.

Since 1972, Dr. Gipp's professional work has been principally in the development of tribal colleges. He was instrumental in developing the first national legislation that assists tribally controlled community colleges. Among other posts, Dr. Gipp was the first permanent executive director (1973-1977) of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and has served several times as the organization's president (1978-1980, 1991-1993 and 1999-2000). He is also the past chairman of the American Indian College Fund. Dr. Gipp's awards include selection as 1995 Indian Educator of the Year by the National Indian Education Association and as 1997 North Dakota Multicultural Educator of the Year; in July 2000, he received the Economic Development Administration's first CP Grant award for service in community economic development.

Dr. Gipp was educated at the University of North Dakota (1969) and holds a Doctorate in Laws, Honoris Causa , from North Dakota State University (1991) for his contributions in development tribal higher education.