Trust Administration — A Complete Field Guide
From estate trusts to tribal trust lands to platform Trust & Safety — every shape of fiduciary work, in one course.
About this course
A full-spectrum course on the discipline of holding things for other people. We cover three pillars in depth — estate / fiduciary trust administration; Indigenous and tribal trust administration; and the modern digital Trust & Safety profession — and tie them together with a comprehensive Trust Directory and a proctored final examination.
What you'll learn
- Identify the trustee, beneficiary, corpus, and tested duty in any trust situation
- Set up, fund, run, and terminate a private estate trust
- Navigate tribal trust land, IIM accounts, and the federal trust responsibility
- Design defensible Trust & Safety policy, moderation, and compliance programs
- Use the Trust Directory as a lifelong professional reference
Curriculum
Pick ONE public trust failure, controversy, or active reform effort. In a 1500-word memo, analyse it from all three pillars: (A) as if it were an estate trust — what duties would be tested? (B) as if it were a tribal trust — what sovereignty and resource issues would surface? (C) as if it were a digital trust problem — how would T&S, identity, and regulatory frames apply? Conclude with ONE concrete recommendation that holds up under all three lenses.
- Each pillar's analysis names the trustee, beneficiary, corpus, and duty in scope
- Sources are cited for any factual claim
- The cross-pillar pattern is explicitly surfaced, not just implied
- The recommendation is structural (not personnel-only) and shippable
- Voice is professional — would survive being read by a regulator, a tribal council, or a court
Bro. Terry leads the Trust Administration curriculum at United Tribes University — a three-pillar program teaching estate trusts, Indigenous and tribal trust administration, and the modern digital Trust & Safety profession. His conviction: the same five concepts (settlor, trustee, beneficiary, corpus, fiduciary duty) anchor every trust in the world, and graduates who can wield them across all three pillars are the next generation of operators the field has been waiting for.