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A poor economic situation, however, as seems to be the greatest obstacle, another BIA official has said.
Although Indians are eligible for any federal grant, two-thirds of the estimated 30,000 native Americans who attend higher education institutions receive funding through the BIA, Waunua Sanders, a BIA educational supervisor, said.
THE BIA OPERATES through 12 agencies, and each agency operates through several area offices, Sanders said. Funding can be distributed through these offices, through the national Washington BIA office or even through the tribe itself.
"The amount of funding that a student receives depends on how much money the student's agency has and how many students are applying," she said. "If one agency has just a small budget, you may probably get full funding. Other agencies may not be able to give their students enough."
"People aren't aware of the magnitude of the Bureau and the variety of Indian problems," Sanders said. "For the student, it's very important when he doesn't know where to been."
According to a Haskell student counselor, Louis Taylor, the reasons behind a high Indian drop-out rate are sometimes much subtler than the obvious reason, a lack of funding.
"Often, the problem is an individual thing, but it is connected with a broader, cultural problem." Taylor said.
'Many Indian college students come from Indian boarding schools, which are very regimental. All of a sudden, they are thrust into a strange environment, and their faces are scared. They have to decide when to get up or even if to get at all, and a lot of students have a hard time adjusting to that.'
"When our students transfer to Haskell, they are automatically supposed to be responsible for their lives," Taylor said. "Some of them just aren't equipped that way."
ACCORDING TO TAYLOR who is a full-blooded Sioux, there are social factors that keep Indians from actively seeking an education, whether it is vocational training or a college
"It is difficult for people to understand what a "reservation is like," Taylor said. "The motivation just isn't there. It's probably due to several things—a difference in cultural values, dissecting children's attitudes, mismanagement with uneducated parents don't get encouraged to go on with their education."
Taylor also blamed past federal ad-
doptions for the failure of programs that failed to equip Indian skills and skills.
"I think that the government acted more out of luck for lorefess than prejudice." Taylor said. "But I don't mind the argument."
"Some Indians went to college anyway, but it was in spite of the government. They certainly weren't encouraged to do it. The government just wanted to get the Indian off the tax payer's back, and vocational schools were the way they chose to do it."
dians were encouraged to get was a vocational education.
Ashmananek said that the quality of Indian education and the numbers of Indians seeking a higher education had slowly increased, but were still below parity.
"Indian enrolment in colleges and universities is higher than it ever has been, but it's still below what it should be," Ashapkane said. "For instance, there are only 230 or 240 Indian physicians in the United States. To reach parity there would have to be 1667 of them. We are way below parity in almost every profession. We have a long way to go."
ment costs, and put some of the money into these programs."
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Tuition
The additional operating budget money is important, Shankel said, because it will increase KU's operating expenditures by the 9 percent level the Regents authorized in 2014. Carlos subsequently cut the increase to 6 percent and the Legislature pared it to 5.5 percent.
Although the allocation of the funds from the fee increase in uncertain, there is a financial bright spot for students next year, Shankel said. The increased funding in federal financial aid available for next year.
A TOTAL OF $2,706,786 will be available in National Direct Student Loans, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants and the College Work Study Program, according to figures released by David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs.
The increase in monies is encouraging,
Said said because the federal government
has increased DSI to 625 million.
He added that both the state and the collection of past loans provided money for NDSL loans.
"We're going to have more money to lend next year because of our collections," Shankel said.
Whether the additional money will reach more students is difficult to say, Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said.
"It is hard for us to notice any increase in applications because we so stacked in here."
"Our counselors haven't noticed anyone coming in saying, 'I can't make it,'" he said.
The full effect of the tuition increase on students also is difficult to gauge, Rogers said. He said he doubted that the full effect of the tuition increase would be in the next fall, when enrollment figures are released.
Annual KU, K-State regatta Saturday
The KU and Kansas rowing crews will hold their annual regatta from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Shawnee Mission Park in Shawnee.
novice and varsity women's fours and the novice and varsity men's fours.
The KU crew won the Big Eight rowing championship two weeks ago, winning both
Last weekend at the Midwest Regional in Madison, Wis., the KU novice men's four won a silver medal, while the K-State novice men's eight contended a bronze medal.
by a few seconds in each of their three meetings this season.
Events at this Saturday's regatta are novice men's four, novice women eight, open men's single, single varsity men four, open men's pair, varsity men four, varsity women, varsity women' four and varsity women' eight.
K-State has beaten the KU novice men's eights
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