E-12
DIAND

'CAPPING'

CIRCULAR

Post-Secondary
The

most

recent

Native

enrollment

Department

In

Education

1977

3,500

and

Northern

Native

Assistance

Affairs,

Program,

(PSEAP),

policy

post-secondary

that

students

arbitrarily

five

education

are

now

funds,

into

one

circular;
Native

so

being

categorized

funding

E-12
“CAPPING“

is

-

implemented

-

funding

by

was

DIAND

in

in

PSEAP,

contingent

upon

acceptance

into

a

Students

presently

-

enrolled

ALL

post-secondary

students
in

a

annual

cost

$7,800.

Approx.

750

who

'status'

applied

for

students

barriers
for

qualifying

12,000

average

These

of

priorities:

which

had

grown

to

in

1987.

per

The

student

grads

per

is

year.

1973.

program.

1)

were

or
approximately

(DIAND),

students

of
enrolled

Indian

increases

POLICY

in

have

their

broken

upward

many

struggle

education.

Native

funding

Even

so

Native

people

under

represented

are

still

post-secondary
were

funded

basis

under

on

an,

“as

required"

in

post-secondary

institution;
institutions.

2)

Qualified

funding

for

academic

3)

High

students

refused

school

Mature

5)

Upgrading

E-12

quidelines.

previous

-Less
E-12

term;

4)

the

RATIONAL

Native

-

students;

based

on

a

recognition

of

the,

secondary

ago,

only

school

completed

post-secondary

-Still
“great
lndian

need

there

is

communities,

for

professional

every

effort

people

1%

of

graduates

a

course

of

study.

should

less

than

Ramifications

to

encourage

and

assist

Indian

2%

of

native

in
secondary

be

complete
made
and

decade

post-graduate

studies.

Implications

a

successfully

graduates;

and

than

school

a

graduates

post-secondary

go

on

to

course

of

students

of
study.
to

the

New

succeed

in

post-secondary

studies...

Policy

-Of
limited

funding

for

qualified

Assistance

take

the

form

of

that

financial

2%

most

students

still

graduat

generous
with

federal
Native

should

a

vocational

certificate,

support...
while

students;

the

need

for

professionals

remains
Those
herefore

who

have

Native

students

will

to

and

talent

to

do

attend

studies

should

recieve

total

WHAT CLEARLY IS REQUIRED IS ACTION...

be
financial

able

motivation

-

post-graduate
fewer

the

assistance...

NOT

CUTS!!!!

post-secondary

institutions.
each

request

for

post-secondary
The

new

funding

policy

hit

be

and

students

WITHIN THE NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE

studies

judged

on

its

own

merits,

and

not

SOCIETY

by

administrative

IS BEING SERIOUSLY UNDERMINED

directives"

post-graduate

the

THIS

hardest;
*HAS

THE

PEOPLE
herefore

post-graduate

THE ABILITY TO CONTROL OUR DESTINY

to

returning
general

students

or

assistance

will
should

necessarily

financial

NEED

IN

FOR

INDIAN

PROFESSIONAL

COMMUNITIES

masters

and

students

mature

students,

doctorate

will

be

post-secondary

able

level

to

attend

YES!

—

This

is

these

in

need

are

of

the

people

the

rapid

devolution

means

mature

Native

most

self

increased

over

students,

Native

Native

affairs,

with

the

reality

crucial

to

determination

of

Native

etc.)

Government
the

DIAND,

and

returning
-

AND

of

with:

assistance,

mothers,

students,

critical

most

control
(single

increased!

especially

which

most

has

institutions.

Amoung

It

on

the

horizon.

SATISFACTORY

-

TO CANADA'S NATIVE PEOPLE!!

-

adult,

NOT

NOR ACCEPTABLE

CHANGED?
Fewer

IS

Self