1973-86_NAS_8D38_02_12

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Part of Memo from Mary Hillaire on the RULE evaluation funds, 1977

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1973-86_NAS_8D38_02_12

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The Evergreen State College
October 4, 1977

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Fred Tabbutt .
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Betsy Diffendai: . .

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Summer RULE Evaluation - First Report on Native American Enrollment
at Evergreen

Fred, the attached fact sheets are a part of the work that Mary Ellen Hillaire
and I 'did this summer with the RULE evaluation funds. The bulk of the data are
drawn from special printouts prepared by Jim Johnson from Evergreen student files
over the past six years. In addition, a sample of Indian graduates were interviewed about their current employment or educational activities.
This information is appropriate for public relations use and I hope that it will
be so used, since this is the first data of this sort that has been prepared about
Native ~nerican enrollees.
' Several things seem particularly noteworthy - one, .that 64% of all Native American
enrollees are Southwest Washington residents (95% are residents of the State of
Washington); second, that Evergreen has the second largest number of Western Wash~ ington Indian students enrolled in any college in the State of Washington; third,
. that Evergreen's rate of Native American graduates - 22% of all those who enroll exceeds the national average by over five times. The national average of Native
American college graduates is 4% of those who enroll in college; and finally, that
many of the Evergreen Indian ,graduates are making really outstanding contr~butions
to their corrnnuni ties.
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I appreciate the opportunity afforded by the RULE grant to began looking at some of
these data.
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cc:

Dan Evans
Edlvard Konnondy
Larry Stenberg
the Deans
Mary Ellen Hillaire
Mary Nelson
Cruz Esquivel
Don Jordon
Lovern King
David Whitener
Jacque Delahunt
Maxine 'Mirrnns
Judy Armis
Cooper Point Journal
Suzanne Feeney
Olympia. Washington 98505

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FACT SHEET ON NATIVE .AMERICAN STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT EVERGREEN 1971-1977
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Since the fall of 1971, a total of 358
have enrolled at Evergreen.

self ~identified

Native American students

Eighty Native American students graduated from Evergreen as of June 1977, or 22% of
of all of those who ever enrolled.
57% (203) of all of the Native American students who enrolled at Evergreen were
attending college for the first time.
43% (152) of all Native American enrollees at Evergreen transferred credit from
another institution • .
- 19% (66) of all Native American students at Evergreen transferred up to one
year - twelve Evergreen units - of credit from another institution.
- 17% (62) of all Native American students at Evergreen transferred betl.reen
one and two years of college credit from another institution - thirteen to
twenty-four Evergreen units.
7% (24) of all Native American students at Evergreen transferred between
two and three years of credit from another institution - twenty-five to
thirty-three Evergreen units.
51% of all Native American students who have enrolled at Evergreen have been women,
49% men.

~ The median age of Native American students at Evergreen is 30, or about seven years
older than the median age for the student body as . a whole, which is 23.
95% of all Native American students enrolled at Evergreen are Washington State
residents.
64% (229) of all Native American students who have attended Evergreen were residents
of the South\.rest l~ashington counties of Pierce, Kitsap, Thurston, Pacific, Wahkiakum,
Cowlitz, Lewis, Mason, Grays Harbor, Clallam, and Jefferson.
31% (112) of all Native American students who have enrolled at Evergreen were -Thurston
County residents at the time that they enrolled.
Of the 203 Native American students whose higher education was funded by the Western
Washington Indian Agency during the 1974-75 academic year, 18% (36) students attended
Evergreen. This gave Evergreen the second largest number of l~estern l~ashington Indian
students of any college, university or community college in the State. The University
of Washington, with 54 Western Washington Native American students led in enrollment.
Evergreen's Native American Graduates
Of the 80 Native American graduates of Evergreen during the years from 1972-77, 62%
(5) were men and 38% (30) were women. The median age of the graduate is 30, the
same as for the total enrolled Native American population.

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American Enrollment

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(13) of all Native American Evergreen graduates spent all four of their undergraduate years at Evergreen.
84% (67) of all Native American graduates were transfer students; bringing with
them college credits from other institutions.
23% (18) of all Native American graduates transfe~red up to one year twelve Evergreen units .- of credit .fron1 another institution.

41% (33) of all Native American graduates transferred up to two years
thirteen to twenty-four Evergreen units - of credit from another institution.
20% (16) of all Native American graduates transferred up to three years twenty-five to thirty-three Evergreen units - of credit from another institution.
Number of graduates by year are as follows:

1972/73

1973/74

1974/75

1975/76

1976/77

6

13

20

26

15

Evergreen's Native American graduates are attending graduate schools, holding leadership positions in their tribal governments, and working in a variety of settings
which support the development of Indian communities.

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Among the Evergreen graduates who are enrolled in graduate programs are HAZEL PETE,
in the University of \Jashington's Haster's program in Indian Education; COLLEEN YOST,
in Portland State's Master's program in Indian Social Work; CAROL HART, JOSEPHINE
MARCELLAY and DONNA LINSTEAD.

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The tribal chainmtnen of two l~estern l~ashington tribes are Evergreen graduates ~IONA BENNETT, Chairwoman of the Puyallup Tribe and GEORGIANA KAUTZ, the Nisqually
Tribal· Chairwoman.
Several Evergreen graduates are working in the area of education: JACQUE DELAHUNT,
formerly with the Indian Education Program of the Olympia Public Schools, now a
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member of the Evergreen faculty for 1977-78, teaching in' the Third World Child Development Program. COLLEEN NEAL is the Cultural Enrichment Specialist for the Bainbridge Island· School District. The Assistant Program Manager for the Seattle Public
Schools' Indian HeritageVrogram is Evergreen graduate, ROSANNE PENNINGTON. FRED
SHELTON, \o7ho has been l·mrking as an education .counselor with high school students
through the Seattle Indian Center, now is returning to his home community on the
Kuskokwim River in Alaska to work in the area of ment~l health.
COLLEEN JOLLEY currently is a Planne.r for the Nisqually Tribe, and ROBERT BLACKETER,
a Fisheries Technician, is working with the .Nisqually Fisheries Enhancement Program.
CLYDE BILL is the Business Nanager for a small business enterprise on the Puyallup
Reservation, and ANDREW .de LOS ANGELES is the Editor of the Indian Voice, an Indian
newspaper published in Tacoma.
•IARY McQUILLEN, a 1977 graduate from Port Angeles, is acting as a consultant to the
Presbyterian Church, while CATHERINE TALLY is the CETA Coordinator for the Lummi
Tribe near Bellingham. An Eastern l~ashington graduate, PAULINE COVINGTON is the

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· Executive Director of the Economic Development Action Team at Colville.
YELLOWCALF is working for Thurston County as a CETA counselor.

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ROBERT SEELEY, a Thurston County resident, works with Pacific Northwest Bell; and
REGINALD SELTICE is a civilian employee at Fort Lewis with the Army Medical Service.
THOMAS BIRDlNGROUND and NORMAN NAULT have worked as consultants, prov:f.ding technical
assistance to tribal governments. PAT ~tiRABAL is working in Trukee, California as
a counselor.