Eligibility

Eligibility Focus

AEF's eligibility requirements focus on an applicant's ancestral and geographic ties to the Northern Alaskan Inupiat People of the Arctic Slope Region.

Requirements

• You must be a member of at least one of the eligible classes of recipients:
  1. A Northern Alaska Inupiat Native of at least ¼ blood quantum currently residing in the Arctic Slope Region
  2. An original 1971 shareholder of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
  3. A direct lineal descendant of an original 1971 shareholder of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
• You must NOT be a spouse, ancestor, lineal descendant (by blood or adoption) or the spouse of a lineal descendant of any member of the Arctic Education Foundation Board of Directors
• You must have a high school diploma (or GED)
• You must be at least 17 years old
• You must be a United States citizen and a United States resident
• You must be accepted as a Post-secondary education student for either:
  1. an undergraduate, graduateor professional degree through an accredited U.S. college or university; or
  2. for technical or vocational training through a qualified U.S. vocational or technical institution or program (including qualified training programs sponsored by industry standard manufacturing firms such as Novell or Microsoft)