DURANT, Okla. 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.