[Transcript] DIAND 'CAPPING' POLICY
The most recent Department of
Indian and Northern Affairs,
(DIAND), policy is “CAPPING“ Native
post-secondary education funds, so
that students are now being
arbitrarily categorized into one of
five 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
E-12 CIRCULAR
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 quidelines.
E-12 RATIONAL
- based on a recognition of the,
“great need there is for professional people in
lndian 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
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.


Native enrollment increases
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
WHAT CLEARLY IS REQUIRED IS ACTION...
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!!