Several organizations and postsecondary institutions have recently announced new scholarships and funds to support Indigenous students looking to pursue higher education. The Saskatchewan Roughriders Foundation announced that it would be investing $60K in funding from the proceeds of its Indigenous logo merchandise into supporting incoming Indigenous students at First Nations University. The funds will be used to create an “Away from Home” bursary for students who need to relocate to attend university and a scholarship for academic excellence. SaskEnergy provided $150K to the University of Saskatchewan’s Be What the World Needs Campaign to create a new scholarship program that includes awards specifically for Indigenous students. The Government of Saskatchewan also doubled the number of Lieutenant Governor Scholarships; it will now award two Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor Indigenous Scholarships valued at $20K each on an annual basis. The Indigenous Institutes Consortium (IIC) and CIBC also recently announced the fourteen recipients of the Community Development Scholarship: Two students from each of the consortium’s seven member institutes in Ontario.
