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FROM:  The UAS Native and Rural Student Center, NRSC

TO GUESTS OF HONOR:  PITAAS, Wooch.Een and Friends of Wooch.Een Graduating from UAS

DETAILS:  Wooch.Een is honored to host the UAS Annual Native Graduation Celebration.

WHAT: We will provide brunch, beverages, and a special program for our Guests of Honor.  We extend our invitation to the family and friends of our Guests of Honor. 

How:  How do students find out about this annual celebration?  The NRSC Staff works closely with three sources: the Wooch.Een Student Club, Preparing Indigenous Teachers and Administrators for Alaska Schools Director, Records and Registration Registrar and Staff to identify the PITAAS, Wooch.Een, and Friends of Wooch.Een graduating students (any Native Student that checked any of the Native American/Alaska Native ethnicity box/es on the admissions application or online and applied for graduation). 

We start our first attempt to contact and invite our students at the end of March, and then our second attempt to confirm student and guest attendance by mid April.  If you know of a PITAAS, Wooch.Een, or Native Student graduating this May 2018 (at the JUNEAU campus) and they haven't been contacted by the NRSC Staff, please contact the NRSC Coordinator Kolene James at kejames@alaska.edu as soon as possible. 

HISTORY:  The UAS Native and Rural Student Center started this tradition of celebrating graduating Wooch.Een Students and Friends of Wooch.Een Students in 1993.  This celebration incorporates some of the Southeast Traditional Tribal Values:

• Respect for self, elders and others
• Pride in family, clan and tradition is found in love, loyalty, and generosity
• Be strong in mind, body, and spirit
• Hold each other up
• Speak with care
• Be strong and have courage

To see a complete list of our Southeast Tribal values please use this link: http://www.ccthita.org/about/values/index.html

Gunalcheesh for your interest in joining our annual celebration.  For more information please contact the NRSC Coordinator Kolene James: kejames@alaska.edu  Have a wonderful day!