Stable, long-term funding essential for equitable education access and economic growth in Indigenous communities – Anishinabek News
April 2, 2025
M’CHIGEENG — The Indigenous Institutes Consortium (IIC), which represents Kenjgewin Teg and six other Indigenous-owned institutions, is calling on the federal government to address the chronic underfunding of Indigenous post-secondary education and fulfill reconciliation commitments.
“We’ve been advocating our message, I would say, for many years,” says Beverley Roy, president at Kenjgewin Teg. “But as political events, all of the things that happen regionally and nationally and even internationally, the urgency really is present right now. We’ve always been faced with inequitable funding and that has been our experience for many years. We really think we’re in a place to actually help and provide solutions to a lot of the things that are currently happening in education and training. The issue has always been present, but we’re really feeling it now in 2025.”
