14 Facts About Janine Pease

Janine Pease is an American educator and Native American advocate.

Janine Pease is the founding president of the Little Big Horn College as well as the past president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and director of the American Indian College Fund.

Janine Pease was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education and the White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities Advisory Council.

Janine Pease has served as a trustee of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

Janine Pease was born on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington where both of her parents worked as educators.

Janine Pease was the first woman of Crow lineage to earn a doctorate degree, from Montana State University in 1994.

Janine Pease received her master's from Montana State University in 1987 and her doctorate in adult and higher education in 1994.

Janine Pease was part of the Crow Central Education Commission and helped to establish the first Crow Indian educational authority, which provided for the education of tribe members on and off the reservation.

Janine Pease taught Native American Studies at Big Bend Community College.

Janine Pease was a counselor at the Navajo Community College and Eastern Montana College.

Janine Pease served as the president of the Little Big Horn College from 1982 to 2000.

Janine Pease is the recipient of several prestigious awards and honors including the MacArthur Fellowship and the ACLU Jeannette Rankin Award, as well as being chosen as the National Indian Educator of the Year in 1990.

Janine Pease was named "one of the 100 Most Influential Montanans of the Century" by the Missoulian Magazine.

Janine Pease is the recipient of several honorary doctorates and was appointed to the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education in 2006 by Governor Schweitzer.