CAPPING' POLICY

The most recent Department of
‘ndaian and Northern Affairs,
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\ost-secondary education funds, so
‘hat students are now being
irbitrarily categorized into one of
‘ive funding priorities:

1) Students presently enrolled
in a post-secondary
institution;

2) Qualified students refused

funding for previous
academic term;

3) High school graduates;
4) Mature students;
5) Upgrading and post-graduate

studies.

Implications and Ramifications of
the New Policy

- limited funding for qualified
Native students;

herefore -
fewer Native students will be
able to attend post-secondary
institutions.

The new funding policy will
necessarily hit returning
students and post-graduate
students the hardest;

herefore -

Fewer adult, mature students,
masters and doctorate level
students will be able to attend
post-secondary institutions.

Amoung these are the people most
most in need of assistance,
(single mothers, returning
students, mature students, etc.),
AND the most crucial to

Native self determination

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Post-Secondary Education
Assistance Program, (PSEAP), or
E-12 circular;

-- implemented by DIAND in 1973.

- funding was contingent upon
acceptance into a post-secondary
program.

- ALL qualifying 'status' Native
students who applied for funding
were funded on an, “as required"
basis under the E-12 guidelines.

E-12 RATIONAL
- based on a recognition of the,
“great need there is for professional people in

Indian communities, every effort should be
made to encourage and assist Indian students

_ to succeed in post-secondary studies...

Assistance should take the form of generous
federal financial support...

Those who have the motivation and talent to do |
WHAT CLEARLY IS REQUIRED IS ACTION...

post-graduate studies should recieve total
financial assistance...

each request for financial assistance to
post-secondary or post-graduate studies
should be judged on its own merits, and not by
general administrative directives"

* HAS THE NEED FOR PROFESSIONAL
PEOPLE IN INDIAN COMMUNITIES
CHANGED?

YES!

- It has increased!

This is especially critical with:

- the rapid devolution of DIAND,
which means increased Native
control over Native affairs, and

- with the reality of Native Self
Government on the horizon.

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In 1977 3,500 Native students were
enrolled in PSEAP, which had grown to
approximately 12,000 in 1987. The
average annual cost per student is
$7,800. Approx. 750 grads per year.

These students have broken many
barriers in their upward struggle
for education.

Even so Native people are still

under represented in post-secondary
institutions

“Less than a decade ago, only 1% of
Native secondary school graduates
successfully completed a course of
post-secondary study.

“Still less than 2% of native

_ secondary school graduates go on to

complete a post-secondary course of
study.

'“Of that 2% most students still graduat

with.a vocational certificate,

- while the need for professionals

remains

NOT CUTS!!!!

THE ABILITY TO CONTROL OUR DESTINY
WITHIN THE NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE
SOCIETY
IS BEING SERIOUSLY UNDERMINED

THIS IS NOT SATISFACTORY -
NOR ACCEPTABLE
TO CANADA'S NATIVE PEOPLE!!