Native American student enrollment is growing at Western Nevada College with a 22 percent increase within this demographic over the past year. At WNC, 2.14 percent of the college’s 3,528 students are Native American. That’s actually above 2020 state census data that shows that 1.7 percent of all Nevadans are Native American.
So why has WNC seen a spike in its Native American numbers, and what is Western doing to intentionally drive this growth? Lorraine Plympton, a Washoe Tribe member who gradua...