Willard Bill of the Muckleshoot Tribe has spent forty years providing educational services to Native peoples and non Indians in Washington state. While teaching at the University of Washington, he helped develop the Office of Minority Affairs.
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Though each had their own separate identities, these organizations shared many of the same goals: to increase recruitment of students and faculty of color, to establish Ethnic Studies programs, to increase financial aid, to hire people of color to provide educational counseling and professional mentoring, to reach out to their communities and to create spaces where people of color would feel welcome in predominantly white schools.

Fighting for access to higher education