Retention & Recruitment

Contains statistics on characteristics of graduates, educational attainment before enrolling, experiences while attending, reasons for enrolling, evaluation of post-graduation employment opportunities, finances, and services.

Contains statistics on characteristics of graduates, educational attainment before enrolling, experiences while attending, reasons for enrolling, evaluation of post-graduation employment opportunities, finances, and services.

Key findings: higher education results in higher income ranges, women are more likely to have completed high school and plan to continue their educations, and women most often cited family responsibilities as reason not to continue school.

Provides brief information, updates, and progress on initiatives taking place in each of four regions: Western, Prairie, Central, and Atlantic.

Speakers address an important pressing issue in Canada for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. Duration: 1:45:26.

Outlines challenges faced by enrolled and prospective students, and makes policy recommendations.

Discusses recommendations and strategies to improve socio-economic conditions for Aboriginal peoples of Canada.

Provides a cross-country update on the current state of student compositions/enrollment at medical schools and what programs have been implemented to address this, including modifying admission criteria and using satellite medical campuses.

Focuses on the Yukon-based First Nations dietetic internship program and other initiatives to recruit and support Aboriginal people who may choose a career in nutrition.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.

Study compares dropout rates for on and off-reserve based on different age cohorts and relationship characteristics.

Discusses inequalities and barriers to post-secondary education for Aboriginal young people. Duration: 34:44.

Provides an overview of the history and current state of Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreements (AEEAs) in British Columbia.

Looks at the colonization and assimilation of Aboriginal peoples in the education system; and discusses the problems, prospects, and future direction of Aboriginal learning in Canada.

Guests discuss challenges of educating Aboriginal children. Duration: 27.56.

Study on educational circumstances of Aboriginal students, existing challenges and changes needed, such as what is taught and by whom.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2005.

Guests who are invested in the future of education are interviewed. Part 1 Aboriginal Education: The Past and Present. Duration: 28:01.

Describes banquet held on May 18, 2002.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Manitoba, 1995.

Leadership Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2010.

Program provides vital communication link between home and school for Aboriginal families in order to improve retention and success rates.

Discusses the hegemonic value system imposed on Aboriginal peoples, the impact on cultural identity, and the connection to citizenship in the realm of education.

Developmental Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2005.

Examines the different patterns of economic disadvantage and notes the evolution from 1995 to 2005.

Examines project initiated to determine why Aboriginals are underrepresented in high school science classes, how to improve participation rates and promote the choice of science-related occupations.

Examines Aboriginal people's labour market experiences and the challenges and opportunities for their future employment growth.

Compares the differences in educational outcomes for both children and adults that are taught an Aboriginal language.

Vidoeo of panel discussion which took place at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Duration: 01:29:57.

Author who is a white physician and faculty member of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine reports of the efforts of his University to attract and retain Native American medical students.

Discusses a survey conducted by the Association of University Schools of Nursing as a follow-up to the original report entitled Against the Odds: Aboriginal Nursing, published in 2002.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2010.

Nursing Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2006.

Examines the educational performance of students in individual off-reserve British Columbia schools with recommended strategies.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Brock University, 2013.

Highlights a wish list of research areas important to understanding issues facing First Nations and Métis access to postsecondary education.

Discusses various post-secondary institutions in Canada that develop innovative programming solutions to attract more Aboriginal students and to address the complex problems surrounding Aboriginal involvement in forest management.

Focuses on strategies that promote recruitment and retention such as financial support, transition programs, community delivery, Aboriginal control, and partnerships between mainstream institutions and Aboriginal communities.

Looks at partnership between Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada and the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada to develop core competencies curriculum and efforts to recruit Aboriginals into health care professions. Special focus on the University of Saskatchewan's programs.

Uses data from the 2012 survey.

Contends that Aboriginal participation rates will lag behind the non-Aboriginal population until major reforms are executed in elementary and secondary school education and the curriculum used in Aboriginal schools.

Using community and Institutional surveys as a basis, paper provides an overview to aid in short-term guidance for planning purposes.

Discusses effective strategies and initiatives to help the educational needs of Aboriginal peoples.