USU joins other Utah universities in offering free tuition for Native Americans

in 2021, only 36% of Native American students in 2014 were able to complete their degrees in six years, compared to 60% of all other students.

Dustin Jansen, director of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs and a Utah Valley University professor, has stressed that the types of Native American scholarships offered by Utah universities are not discriminatory since "Indian" is not just an ethnic minority but a legal status. This means students who are ethnically Indigenous but not enrolled members of a tribe would not be eligible.

"Doing something like this and limiting it to members of enrolled tribes avoids the attack that this is discrimination against other ethnic minorities in the state," Jansen when the U. announced its scholarship. "This tuition waiver is being offered because they are a member of a federally recognized tribe. As a state institution, this is a government-to-government agreement."

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