The literature on building post-secondary success : Building post-secondary success

We shall have more to say about specific gaps in existing literature at the conclusion of this paper, but it is important to note from the outset that the state of scholarship on post-secondary education for Inuit in Canada matches the state of northern post-secondary institutional development. Both scholarship and post-secondary institutional development in Canada lag far behind those of other comparable countries, such as the United States (Alaska), Greenland, and Norway. While there are universities in the northern parts of several provinces (Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia) there are no universities in Inuit Nunaat, and none in any of the territories. Perhaps partly as a consequence, the body of published research on northern post-secondary attainment in Canada is scanty and unbalanced, with most of it only very weakly relevant to policy development and public decision-making on educational matters. We were unable to find sufficient relevant, independent analysis to answer the basic question: what factors contribute (and will contribute) to the post-secondary success of Inuit students?