Certainly, the process of decolonizing education comes from so many different levels. One thing we're really proud of is that it even comes to our legislation.
Our legislation requires us to be working...there's a legal requirement for us to be working with Yukon first nations and ensuring that the students have successful outcomes. Part of our funding, and the determination of the Yukon government in our success as a post-secondary, will be dependent on the feedback and the success rates of first nations students, or indigenous students in Yukon. It's specifically first nations students, though.
We have introduced a whole variety of programs that have come through at the request of Yukon first nations. We have something called a president's advisory committee on first nations initiatives. That committee has representation from each of the 14 first nations in the territory, as well as some of the neighbouring communities. There are some from the Gwich'in Tribal Council over in the Mackenzie-Delta area, as well as from Lower Post over in B.C. and Atlin, B.C.
We're really trying to ensure that we hear the priorities and the interests of the first nations. Through that, we have responded as far as introducing different types of student supports is concerned. We have introduced first nations navigators to be able to provide that holisitic support to students within the university, but we have also introduced programs that were truly co-created.
I would say the environmental monitoring is one example of when mining companies wanted us to have an environmental monitoring program. That's a fiduciary requirement of theirs, but first nations said they really want their interests to be paramount, and for any graduates coming out of those programs to really understand what an environmental monitor should be doing from their perspective. We found that to be such an amazing model in that a number of the graduates from the program have gone on to work in the lands departments of the first nations governments and, in some cases, are directors of lands in the governments.
I think in the last question period I referenced the indigenous governance program. That's another one that was co-created. The question of having the program came from first nations as they were establishing their new governments. They really understood the important role of policy and how important oversight and broad governance are to sustainability in the future of those governments. With that, we created the degree where we find they will be honest about challenges—