Roy E. Howard, Ph.D.
Gallup
Graduate Studies Center, Western
New Mexico University
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The Western Professional Development
Project
Proposed to the US Department of Education by Roy E.
Howard, 1999 (not funded)
APPLICATION NARRATIVE
The Western Professional Development Project (WPDP)
expects, with federal support, to increase the number of qualified
Indian individuals in professions that serve Indian people by
providing degree programs to qualified Indian individuals to achieve
a Masters degree in elementary or secondary education (Bilingual
Education or ESL), Special Education, school administration, counseling,
or the Masters of Business Administration. Applications are to
be screened by scholarship offices of the Zuni Pueblo and Navajo
Nation. Courses and advisement are provided by Western New Mexico
University, at the Gallup Graduate Studies Center in the Four
Corners area of Northwestern New Mexico.
A. NEED FOR PROJECT
The goal of the Western Professional Development
Project (WPDP) is to contribute to an increase in percentages
of American Indian teachers, counselors, and administrators serving
Native American people.
Nationwide at the time of the 1994 Baseline data, in public schools
with 25 percent or more American Indian and Alaska Native students,
13 percent of principals and 15 percent of teachers were American
Indian or Alaska Native. In the multicounty, multistate service
area of WNMU Gallup Graduate Studies Center (the Four Corners
region of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado), the disparity
is much greater. Schools have an average of 72.8% Native American
enrollment, but professional staff averages only 15.6% Indian.
In some schools there are no native administrators, counselors,
or teachers.
2005 National Goal: 18 percent of principals and 20 percent of
teachers in public schools with high proportions of American Indians
will be American Indian or Alaska Native.
2004 WPDP goal: 20 percent of teachers, counselors, and administrators
in 12 public and federal school systems serving high percentages
of Native American students will be Native American.
A number of state and federal schools are in the university's
service area, with the need for training exemplified by the two
public school districts closest to Gallup. Much of the need in
the Four Corners area is the result of its special social, linguistic,
cultural and geographic circumstances, as demonstrated by the
statistics of the two public school districts serving the district:
Gallup-McKinley County Schools (GMCS) and Zuni Public Schools
(ZPS).
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Roy E. Howard, Ph.D.
Gallup
Graduate Studies Center, Western
New Mexico University
e-mail
| Vita