In the Media
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.
"Not everybody gets to have his or her name in the newspaper. That’s unfortunate, especially when it comes to sports, where the athletes getting the ink are the ones doing the scoring, making the highlight plays. But one or two star players do not a team make. What’s needed for success are the athletes who labor in relative obscurity to most, but are leaders and role models to their teammates. "
"Dan Blessing and Marc Van Grinsven are paddling across the continent, a journey that will take over a year — and they stopped in North Eastman last week.
The duo began their journey earlier this year when they took off from northern Minnesota. They'll paddle all the way up to northern Alberta before heading back south and ending their journey in Washington state."
"The Bellingham Slam are heading south this weekend for a pair of key divisional games against the Yamhill Highflyers and Vancouver Volcanoes. With six games remaining in their International Basketball League season, the Slam will likely need to win the rest of their games if they are to receive one of the coveted top playoff tournament seedings and a resulting first-round bye."
"Western Washington University and the city of Bellingham are partnering to offer trash collection sites from Friday, June 11, to Sunday, June 13, as students move out of neighborhoods around the school.
Four free trash collection points will be set up in neighborhoods with large student populations."
"California politics enters uncharted territory after voters wiped out the traditional system of political party nomination and replaced it with a free-for-all primary election that could result in two candidates from the same party making the general election ballot."
"Three ceremonies, 9 a.m.: College of Business and Economics, the College of Fine and Performing Arts, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies and Huxley College of the Environment; 12:30 p.m.: College of Humanities and Social Sciences (Humanities Division) and Woodring College of Education; 4 p.m.: College of Humanities and Social Sciences (Social Sciences Division) and the College of Sciences and Technology."
"For the 23 students in Western Washington University’s four-year human services program, hosted on the Olympic College campus, Sunday’s graduation ceremony will be bittersweet.
The program, in its current format, will end with this year’s graduating seniors. Beginning in January 2011, classroom teaching will be replaced with online instruction supplemented by in-person seminars at OC, Peninsula Community College in Port Angeles and possibly other locations, as demand dictates."
"The old showbiz maxim about leaving the audience wanting more applies to classical music as well. Soprano Erin Wall wowed San Francisco Symphony patrons two weeks ago with a bravura performance in Robin Holloway's "Clarissa Sequence.""
"Local governments in Whatcom County reacted with shock Tuesday, June 8, to an announcement from the Washington Department of Revenue that British Columbia residents will soon be entitled to an exemption from state and local sales taxes on merchandise."