Aff Axn Demands - Yale

Demand #1

• Specific details on what they mean
  • How will they affect students?
  • What does support for cultural centers mean?
  • What does this timeline look like? What changes this timeline?
  • What does better financial aid look like? What will it exactly cover?
  • What will pipeline programs look like?

Demand #2

• Student feedback/participation built in
• Important to be there while the policies are built before they’re set
• Aids in limiting confusion
• Current students are a key part of getting people to apply/admit, esp b/c Bulldog Days and other admission forums/ admission programs through the Cultural Centers

Demand #3

• Expand Yale Ambassadors program
• Contacting the schools/making the appointment
  • More official way to make this more accessible as well
  • Vs. Yale admissions officer

Demand #4

• Tribal enrollment is a political status, this should still be considered in applications
  • Upheld by ICWA case etc.
  • Tribes are sovereign governments within the United States that have listed citizens
  • Tribal enrollment is utilized by federal agencies for Indian preference
  • is permissible within federal agencies
  • UC continues to have tuition programs for enrolled Native Californians:
    • https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/types-of-aid/native-american-opportunity-plan.html
    • https://financialaid.colostate.edu/members-of-american-indian-tribes-with-historical-ties-to-colorado/
  • Michigan Indian tuition waiver
    • https://www.michigan.gov/mdcr/divisions/dei/indian-tuition-waiver
  • Document arguing for the consideration of enrollment in admissions in the public california system:
    • https://escholarship.org/content/qt9461z6cr/qt9461z6cr.pdf?t=okne8d
    • “Within the UC system, the only programs to allow tribal membership as an admissions factor are the UCLA School of Law and an affiliated graduate student program at the UCLA American Indian Studies Center”
  • Kamehameha Schools are private institutions and take enrollment/descendancy into consideration (only admit Native Hawaiian students)

Demand #5

• Admissions officers make an effort to go to disadvantaged schools
  • Tribal schools
  • Schools that have historically had minority students

Demand #6

• Support for current/prospective students during BDD - issues with possible

Demand #7

• Demographics survey post-admission?
  • More intentional pairing to students with PLs/cultural centers through collaboration with Camp Yale Program leaders
  • Particularly MENA (comments during PL training)

Demand #8

• Test scores optional still

Demand #9

• Develop full-on new programs for students of color - building upon the pipeline like Pericles said (existing programs at MIT/UCs?)
  • https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/6-uc-summer-programs-are-cultivating-diversity
  • https://mites.mit.edu/

Demand #10

• Diversity statement in the application - an opportunity for students of color to talk about their race (or another part of their identity) without being forced to make their whole application about it
• Scholarships with eligibility being students of color?