In the Media
"The Western Washington University men's and women's basketball teams will have a new postseason hurdle to clear next spring.
The Great Northwest Athletic Conference Management Council has approved inaugural postseason conference championship tournaments in men's and women's basketball and men's and women's soccer, GNAC Commissioner Richard Hannan announced in a press release on Tuesday, June 15."
"Guard John Allen, who played in 13 games last season as a redshirt freshman at Washington State University, has accepted a scholarship to play men's basketball at Western Washington University beginning this fall."
"Forward Tyler Amaya has returned to the Bellingham Slam after playing this spring with a team in New Zealand, the team announced Tuesday, June 15. He is expected to be in the lineup when the Slam plays the Tacoma Tide in a road contest on Thursday, June 17."
"Someone, or some group, is illegally building mountain biking trails and jumps in the Sehome Hill Arboretum, causing erosion and hurting the native vegetation.
Now, the city of Bellingham and Western Washington University hope the public will help find those responsible and put an end to the activity. The two manage the 180-acre forested park nestled between WWU and surrounding neighborhoods."
Phackdey Sok has been living with his grandmother and 13 relatives since January, when his family became homeless. Sometimes the Lincoln senior had to crawl into a closet just to be able to get away from the chaos and catch some sleep.
“I always tried to be a good student,” he said. “I came to school every day. Where else was I supposed to go? School is like an extra home for me. School is a place to go to make something of myself.”
The first phase of waterfront development could begin in the Old Town area and extend southwest across Roeder Avenue into Port of Bellingham property that includes the Granary Building and surrounding area, according to a plan developed by James Long, executive director of the Bellingham Public Development Authority.
Oxford University Press has published "Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World," co-authored and edited by Dana C. Jack, professor of interdisciplinary studies at Western Washington University.
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire knows a thing or two about recessions and pessimism.
A student at the University of Washington in the 1970s, the two-term Democratic governor experienced a time of political upheaval during a controversial war and saw people give up hope about the economy of the state.
Sound familiar?
But through it all, residents in the state never stopped embracing the "spirit of innovation" that has brought about the likes of Microsoft, Boeing and Starbucks, she said. And that's the type of innovation she wanted the 2010 graduating class of Western Washington University to embrace as well.
Western Washington University will leave tenure positions open, eliminate some jobs and make other cuts as part of a nearly $4.3 million budget reduction for the next school year.
The university's Board of Trustees unanimously approved the 2010-11 operating budget at its regular meeting Friday, June 11.
What’s a class without a classroom worth?
Increasingly, it’s worth a college degree for students who otherwise couldn’t have one.
When 23 students graduate today with Western Washington University bachelor’s degrees in human services, they’ll be the last students to have earned them from teachers in Olympic College classrooms. Beginning next January, online learning will replace traditional teacher/classroom instruction for Kitsap and Olympic peninsula students in the four-year WWU degree program. Online teaching will be supplemented with in-person seminars at Olympic College and at Peninsula Community College in Port Angeles.