In the Media
Nothing focuses the mind, and priorities, like an imminent swing of the budget ax.
I've been spending hours listening to a parade of leaders from K-12 and higher education clarify their core missions and shape new collaborations and consolidations. The timing isn't coincidental. State lawmakers haven't finished trimming $1.1 billion from the current state budget. Next biennium's revenue challenges hang like a dark cloud over the future.
OLYMPIA — State workers will take a 3 percent pay cut in each of the next two years through unpaid leave in a tentative agreement reached Tuesday with Gov. Chris Gregoire.
The agreement also calls for state workers to pay 15 percent of their health-care premium costs, with the state picking up the other 85 percent in the next two-year budget. That deal, which would apply to all state workers, had been announced earlier in the month. The state currently pays 88 percent of the premium, and state workers pay 12 percent.
Dwight Clark, the Western Washington University student who was found dead after he disappeared in September, accidentally drowned, the Whatcom County Medical Examiner said in a report on Thursday.
"We’re dedicated to excellence in fossil preservation, research and learning experiences," he says
"We have internships for undergraduate and graduate students. This past year, for example, we had an undergraduate from Western Washington University, and a graduate student from Gakugei University in Tokyo, Japan, whose speciality was fossil birds."
Two top 10 national finishes in men's and women's cross country and a regional appearance in volleyball have placed Western Washington University 11th in the 2010-11 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup/NCAA Division II standings with six of the seven fall sports championships completed.
Two seniors, Sarah Porter and Jordan Welling, were voted the most valuable player awards for women and men, respectively, by their teammates at the Western Washington University cross country awards ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 9.
It was the third straight year that each runner received the honor. Both were three-time USTFCCCA All-Americans.
Western Washington University will celebrate its 100,000th degree awarded during its fall commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, in Carver Gym.
One student will be randomly selected from a drawing to receive the representational 100,000th degree at the ceremony.
Just as the excitement is growing over the first dealer deliveries of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and 2011 Nissan Leaf, eagle-eyed EV enthusiasts have spotted General Motor’s previous electric car
on Google’s Street View.
Donald Alper, director of the Center for Canadian-American Studies and Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, writes that Washington State, like every other jurisdiction in North America, is fixated on increasing export and investment opportunities overseas. In the rush to build stronger business relationships with foreign trade partners, the state should not overlook its most important and historically most reliable neighbor — Canada. It is especially well-positioned to realize benefits from greater interaction and partnerships with Canada.
It’s an old saw among officials responsible for protecting everything from porcupines to penguins: “We don’t manage wildlife, we manage people.” Now, researchers in New Zealand have put a neon twist on preventing people from bugging wildlife. They found that simply placing a volunteer wearing a bright orange vest at a waterfall frequented by fur seals cut harassment by tourists by two-thirds.