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STUDENTS

  • Aboriginal institutes fill a rapidly growing need for Aboriginal students
  • Educate/train 4,000 students per year
  • Small class sizes
  • Institutes focused on student support
  • High student success rates
  • Enrolment increased 92% over five years
  • Students are challenged to secure funding support due to the 1989 cap in federal student support funding.
  • Many are mature students with family responsibilities.
Students
  
 

FACULTY AND STAFF

  • Aboriginal faculty and staff
  • Institutes are consistent and growing employers within Aboriginal communities
  • 94% of faculty are part-time
  • Institutes benefit from faculty and staff volunteers.
 
 

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

  • Programs and services rich in Aboriginal culture, language and history
  • 150 programs delivered in Aboriginal communities
  • Programs include literacy, secondary level programs, apprenticeship,
    skills training, diploma and degree programs, community workshops,
    workplace & employer employee training
  • Services include personal, financial, academic and social counseling;
    prior learning assessment and recognition; career and employment
    counseling
Culture Day
  
 

RESEARCH

  • All institutes are involved in research
  • Community research projects are increasing
 
 

PROGRAM RECOGNITION

  • Chiefs, community and AIC member institutes provide provincial
    recognition
  • Institutes partner with 11 universities and 14 colleges for program
    accreditation
  • Institute partners change as per institute/community needs
Bill & Dan Bird
  
 

FACILITIES/DISTANT LEARNING CAPACITY

  • Three brand new buildings have been built over the past ten years, thanks to community support
  • Some facilities are substandard due to the lack of capital funding
  • Institutes support distant learning but lack capacity
 
 

INSTITUTE FUNDING

  • Some institutes are eligible to access yearly funding: $3.2 million
    grant funding through the Indian Studies Support Program, Indian and
    Northern Affairs; and, $2,580,000 grant funding through the Ministry of
    Training, College and Universities
  • Other funding sources may include: training funds through Human
    Resources Development Canada; tuition, community organizations;
    private sector donations and foundations
  • Institutes are subsidized by communities and parent organizations
AEI Graduates
  
   
Economic success through community based education is the pride and joy of many native communities in Ontario.
  
"Aboriginal Education and Training … With Pride."

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