Choctaw Scholarship Advisement Program services to be distributed among educational programs
In recent months, the Choctaw Nation Education Department has restructured its suite of educational programs in an effort to streamline its efforts and increase the benefit to tribal members.
During this restructuring, the Scholarship Advisement Program (SAP) has been dissolved and services contained therein either dispersed among other programs or discontinued. Pre-college initiatives will now be hosted through the Making A Difference (MAD) program and post-secondary matters completed through the Higher Education Program (HEP). Scholarships formerly hosted through SAP are now housed at the Chahta Foundation.
Consolidation and elimination of certain services will enable the core services to access greater funding, translating to higher impact in areas most important to tribal members. As other programs absorb certain aspects of SAP, tribal members will see more action and fewer divisions in services.
A staple event of SAP, Ivy League and Friends, which was an annual gathering of the nation’s top universities, will still take place with modifications. The new event will be titled Choctaw College Connect and will see a wider variety of schools invited. All previous attendees from past events will be welcomed, along with local institutions which include the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University.
For more information and a registration form, please see here.